# Lord Innermeath

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Title in the peerage of Scotland

**Lord Innermeath** is an extinct title in the [Peerage of Scotland](/source/Peerage_of_Scotland) created c. 1471 for [Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Innermeath](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Stewart,_1st_Lord_Innermeath&action=edit&redlink=1). Stewart had previously been [Lord of Lorne](/source/Lord_of_Lorne), but resigned that title - which came with substantial [comital power](/source/Regality) - under pressure from [James III](/source/James_III_of_Scotland); James wished to weaken the remaining power of the [Black Douglases](/source/Earl_of_Douglas), who had been allies of Walter's uncle, [The Black Knight of Lorn](/source/James_Stewart%2C_the_Black_Knight_of_Lorn). Walter had in fact held the Lordship of Lorne for only a few days, following the murder of his brother, the former Lord of Lorne.

The creation of *Lord Innermeath* was designed as immediate compensation for Walter's loss of Lorne; he received it on the same day that Lorne was resigned. The title - *Innermeath* - refers to the family home of the Stewart Lords of Lorn - [Innermeath](/source/Invermay) (now *Invermay*). The Lordship of Lorn was subsequently awarded to [Colin Campbell](/source/Colin_Campbell%2C_1st_Earl_of_Argyll), husband of Walter's niece (Isabel Stewart), who became [Earl of Argyll](/source/Earl_of_Argyll) soon after.

The Lords of Innermeath claimed rights to office in the Sherrifdom of Perthshire.[1]

The sixth Lord Innermeath was further ennobled as the [Earl of Atholl](/source/Earl_of_Atholl) in 1596, but both titles became extinct upon the death of [James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl and 7th Lord Innermeath](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Stewart,_2nd_Earl_of_Atholl&action=edit&redlink=1).

## Lords Innermeath

- [Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Innermeath](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Stewart,_1st_Lord_Innermeath&action=edit&redlink=1) (d.c. 1489)

- [Thomas Stewart, 2nd Lord Innermeath](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Stewart,_2nd_Lord_Innermeath&action=edit&redlink=1) (k. 1513 [Battle of Flodden](/source/Battle_of_Flodden))

- [Richard Stewart, 3rd Lord Innermeath](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Stewart,_3rd_Lord_Innermeath&action=edit&redlink=1) (d. 1532)

- [John Stewart, 4th Lord Innermeath](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Stewart,_4th_Lord_Innermeath&action=edit&redlink=1) (d. 1569)

- [James Stewart, 5th Lord Innermeath](/source/James_Stewart%2C_5th_Lord_Innermeath) (d.1585)

- [John Stewart, 6th Lord Innermeath](/source/John_Stewart%2C_1st_Earl_of_Atholl_(1566%E2%80%931603)) (d. 1603) created [Earl of Atholl](/source/Earl_of_Atholl) in 1596.

- [James Stewart, 7th Lord Innermeath](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Stewart,_7th_Lord_Innermeath&action=edit&redlink=1) (d. 1625)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** David Masson, *Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1578-1585*, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1880), p. 491.

### Sources

- [Balfour Paul, Sir James](/source/James_Balfour_Paul). [*The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom*, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1904), pp. 1-8](https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun05paul/page/n11/mode/2up)

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