11 March 1488. He died before the following July, when James IV offered 18s. for his ‘sawlemess’ in the church of Stirling (Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, i. 89).
His wife's name is nowhere recorded, and he died without surviving issue. He was succeeded by his nephew, Alexander, son of his brother, Walter Stewart of Morphie, who inherited the lands of Avandale, and, dying before 1500, was succeeded by a younger brother, Andrew, who about that date received the title of Lord Avandale, and in 1543 was created lord Ochiltree (Registrum Magni Sigilli, vol. ii. No. 2516, cf. No. 1632). The eldest son of Andrew, third lord Avandale (and first lord Ochiltree), was Andrew Stewart, second lord Ochiltree [q. v.]; the second son was Henry Stewart, first lord Methven [q. v.]; and the third son, Sir James Stewart of Beath, was father of James Stewart of Doune, who was created lord Doune on 24 Nov. 1581, and was ancestor of the Stewarts, earls of Moray.
[Genealogical Sketch of the Stuarts of Castle Stuart, &c., by the Hon. and Rev. A. G. Stuart, M.A., 1854, where the question of the legitimacy of Lord Avandale and his brothers is discussed; The Lennox, by William Fraser, 2 vols. 1874; The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vols. iv–ix.; Douglas's Peerage, ed. Wood, i. 158.]
STEWART, ANDREW, second Lord Ochiltree (fl. 1548–1593), son of Andrew, third lord Avandale and first lord Ochiltree [see under Stewart, Andrew, (first) Lord Avandale], by Margaret Hamilton, only child of James, first earl of Arran, succeeded his father in 1548. On 27 Oct. 1549 he received a grant of the lands of Pennymore, Ayrshire (Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1546–80, No. 387), and on 31 Jan. 1556–7 the lands of Barloch-hill, &c. (ib. No. 1150). He was one of the lords who in May 1559 came to the relief of the protestants at Perth (Knox, i. 340), and on the last day of May subscribed the band in defence of the ‘Congregation’ (ib. p. 345). He was one of the commissioners sent in July 1559 by the lords of the congregation to arrange terms with the queen regent (ib. p. 367), and he also signed the letter of remonstrance sent to the queen regent in September against the fortification of Leith (ib. p. 414). When the lords of the congregation resolved at the close of 1559 to leave Edinburgh, Ochiltree joined the division which occupied Glasgow and the surrounding districts (ib. ii. 38). He subscribed the contract between Elizabeth and the lords of the congregation, 10 May 1560 (ib. p. 53), and shortly afterwards he, with his followers, joined at Prestonpans the English army sent to the assistance of the protestants (ib. p. 58). He signed the band for defending the ‘liberty of the Evangel’ and for the expulsion of the French from Scotland (ib. p. 63), and his name also appears among the subscribers to the book of discipline, 27 Jan. 1560–1 (ib. p. 129). Ochiltree accompanied Knox to Holyrood when in 1563 he went to answer to the queen for railing in his sermon against her proposed marriage to a papist (ib. p. 387), and alone bore him company in the outer chamber after the interview (ib. p. 389). He joined in the rebellion of Moray against the queen on her marriage to Darnley in 1565, and on 6 Sept. was cited to present himself before the king and queen within six days (Reg. P. C. Scot. i. 365). Failing to do so, he was on 1 Dec. declared guilty of lèse majesté (ib. p. 409). He supported the lords who conspired against Riccio, and also took an active part against the queen after the murder of Darnley. He subscribed the acts of the assembly in July 1567, in which the murder and popery met with the same condemnation (Knox, ii. 565), and attended the king's coronation on the 29th of the same month (Reg. P. C. Scotl. i. 537). At the battle of Langside, 13 May 1568, he fought against the queen and was wounded by Lord Herries (Calderwood, History, ii. 416). Consistent in his opposition to the queen, he voted against her divorce from Bothwell in 1569 (Reg. P. C. Scotl. ii. 8), and he was one of the nobles who carried the body of the Regent Moray from Holyrood to St. Giles's church (Randolph to Cecil, 22 Feb. 1569–70, in Knox's Works, vi. 571).
After the death of the Earl of Moray, Ochiltree ceased to take a prominent part in politics; but he was one of the new privy council chosen after Morton's return to power in July 1578 (Moysie, Memoirs, p. 12). It is probable, however, that he was no special friend of Morton's, for it was his son, Captain James Stewart (afterwards Earl of Arran) [q. v.], who in 1580 accused Morton of the murder of Darnley. On 18 March 1579–80 Ochiltree and his son James received a grant of the lands of Bothwellmuir and of Easter and Wester Moffat (Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1546–80, No. 2983). On the slaughter of Ochiltree's son, Sir William, by the Earl of Bothwell in 1588, Ochiltree followed Bothwell persistently from place to place, but did not succeed in capturing him (Moysie, Memoirs, p. 69). In 1592 Ochiltree agreed to mediate between Huntly and Moray [see Stewart, James, second Earl of Moray], who was a partisan of Bothwell, and at his instance Moray came to Donibristle,
