CARMICHAEL, Elizabeth "Mistress"

1515 - 1572  (57 years)

• Name	CARMICHAEL, Elizabeth "Mistress"  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	1515	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	5 May 1572	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I13944	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	ERSKINE, John 5th Lord Erskine,   b. 1487, Nisbet, Ayrshire, Scotland ,   d. 11 Jul 1555, Dunbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland  (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F6720	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	JOHN, of Meadowflat Carmichael Sir,   b. 1484, Carmichael, Lanarkshire, Scotland ,   d. 1567  (Age 83 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	BRUCE, Elizabeth Janet of Airth,   b. 1480, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland ,   d. 2 Aug 1545  (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1504	Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F2003	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	CARMICHAEL, John,   b. 1484, Carmichael, Lanarkshire, Scotland ,   d. 1567  (Age 83 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F7043	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	STEWART, James 5th King of Scotland,   b. 10 Apr 1512, Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgowshire, West Lothian, Scotland ,   d. 14 Dec 1542, Falkland Palace, Falkland, Fife, Scotland  (Age 30 years)
  Children	1. STEWART, John Lord Darnley,   b. Apr 1531, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ,   d. Dec 1563, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland  (Age ~ 32 years)  [natural]   2. STEWART, Robert 1St Earl of Orkney Junior,   b. 1533, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ,   d. 16 Jan 1581  (Age 48 years)  [natural]   3. STEWART, Robert Prince of Scotland 1st Earl of Orkney Lord of Zetland,   b. Mar 1533, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ,   d. 4 Feb 1593, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland  (Age ~ 59 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F4468	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. DOUGLAS, Margaret,   b. 1520, Lochleven, Kinross-shire, Scotland ,   d. Aft May 1584  (Age > 64 years)  [natural]   2. DOUGLAS, Euphemia,   b. 1533, Lochleven, Kinross, Perth, Scotland ,   d. Jun 1580, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland  (Age 47 years)  [natural]   3. DOUGLAS, Janet,   b. 1536, Loch Leven Castle, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. Scotland  [natural]   4. STEWART, Jean Lady "Illegitimate",   b. 1538,   d. 7 Jan 1587  (Age 49 years)  [natural]   5. DOUGLAS, Sir Robert 4th Earl of Buchan,   b. 1542,   d. 18 Aug 1580, Drum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland  (Age 38 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F6750	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	SOMERVILLE, John of Cambusnethan
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F5383	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Catherine (Elizabeth) Carmichael, daughter of Sir John Carmichael of Meadowflat, captain of Crawford Castle, became the mistress of King James V. The king built the castle of Crawfordjohn in Clydesdale in 1528 for her, and as a place for them to meet undisturbed. She bore him a son, John Stewart (6th Earl of Bothwell), and a daughter Mary, who were half-brother and half-sister to Mary, Queen of Scots. The first Carmichaels could have been indigenous Britons, or they could have been among the many Norman knights who were invited to settle in southern Scotland by Kings Malcolm III and his son David I following the successful Normandy Invasion of England in 1066 (a genealogist’s report prepared for the second Earl of Carmichael speculates that the chiefly line may have descended from a knight from Mont St. Michel on the coast of Normandy). Within a few generations these transplanted Norman nobles were among the leading families of Scotland and included the Bruces, Stewarts, Hamiltons, Frasers, and Gordons, to name just a few. While the origins of the first Carmichaels will probably never be known, what is known is that some 800 years ago the residents who had settled around what became Carmichael Estate had adopted the name of their district, Caer Mychel, for their surname (King Malcom III encouraged this practice in 1056). Tinto Hill, the “Hill of Fire” (pictured above), is the highest elevation in the region at 2320 feet, and just north of it stood the prominent stone ruins of three ancient Briton hill forts, called a “caer” in the Gaelic tongue. In the year 1068, shortly after marrying King Malcolm III, Queen Margaret founded one of the first seven Christian churches in Scotland on one of these sites (caer hill, afterwards called kirkhill or church hill), dedicated to the Archangel Michael. Margaret was an extremely pious and devout Roman Catholic who converted the entire Kingdom from the ancient Culdee faith to Catholicism, for which she was canonized as St. Margaret after her death. The first survey of Christian churches in Scotland in 1116 refers to this church as Llan (church, later called kirk) Mychel (of St. Michael). Thus, “Caer Mychel” became the name of the place, and the name was adopted by the residents for their surname. The first Carmichael name of record is Robert de Carmitely, a scribes’ attempt to spell the name, who resigned claims to the patronage of the church of Cleghorn around 1220, and who is again mentioned in the Charter of Dryburgh Abbey in 1226 as Robert de Carmichael. The name evolved through a series of spellings to Carmichael as it is generally spelled today. During the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Carmichaels traveled widely. Some went to Galloway where they became kinsmen of the Stewarts of Galloway, later moving northwards and settling in Lismore and Appin as kinsmen of the Stewarts of Appin and the MacDougalls. Others went to Holland where Robert Carmichael ‘the armourer’ still has descendants known today as ‘Carmiggelts’. Further migrations to Ireland in 1690 and to the Americas from 1650 onwards resulted in the world-wide spread of the name. There are towns named Carmichael in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Mississippi, California, Saskatoon Canada, Barbados West Indies, and Australia. In 1997 the world-wide Carmichael population was estimated at over 42,000 with half resident in the United States, a quarter in the United Kingdom and 10% in Canada. A further 10% lives primarily in Australia, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, France, Holland, South Africa and Italy.

  
  

• Sources

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