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{{Short description|Scottish noble}}
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[[Image:Mary Menteith & Walter Bailloch.jpg|thumb|150px|The tomb effigies of Mary and her husband, [[Walter Bailloch]], at [[Inchmahome Priory]] in [[Menteith]].]]
[[File:Walter Stewart, Earl of Menteith effigy.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Black and white illustration of a mediaeval stone effigy|The effigy of Mary and her husband, [[Walter Bailloch]].]]
'''Maire inghean Mhuireadhaich''' or '''Mary''', daughter of [[Muireadhach II, Earl of Menteith|Muireadhach II]], [[Mormaer of Menteith]], was [[Earl of Menteith|Countess of Menteith]], successor to her sister [[Isabella, Countess of Menteith|Isabella (Iosbail)]].

==Life==
She inherited the title from her father, and married [[Walter Bailloch]], son of [[Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland]]. By the time of the death of [[Walter Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, jure uxoris Earl of Menteith]] in 1258, she may have already been married. In 1260, Isabella was arrested, along with her new husband, an English knight called [[John Russell (died 1270)|John Russell]], for the poisoning of her late husband; by the month of April 1261, Walter and Mary were ruling the province as Count and Countess.

[[File:Effigies in the Chapter House - geograph.org.uk - 1628617.jpg|thumb|right|View of the Chapter House of Inchmahome Priory; effigies on the right represent the Countess Mary and Walter, Earl of Menteith.]]
The Countess Mary predeceased her husband, probably before 1286.<ref>George Edward Cokayne, ''The complete peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times'', Vol. VIII, eds. H. A. Doubleday; Howard de Walden (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1932), p. 663</ref> Their tombstone is preserved in the [[Inchmahome Priory|Priory of Inchmahome]], bearing the effigies of husband and wife, the former bearing on his shield the Stewart [[Fess|fess chequy]] with a label of five points, a device which also appears on his seal of arms in the [[Public Record Office]], [[London]].

They had two sons and one daughter: 
* [[Alexander, Earl of Menteith]], the next ruler of the province
* Sir [[John de Menteith]], who captured Sir [[William Wallace]] and handed him over to the English
* Elena Stewart, who married Sir John Drummond (aft. 1240-1301), [[Thane (Scotland)|Thane]] of [[The Lennox|Lennox]], [[Scottish clan chief|Chief]] of [[Scottish clan|Clan]] [[Clan Drummond|Drummond]], son of Sir Malcolm de Drummond (aft. 1209-1278), Thane of Lennox, and paternal grandson of Sir Malcolm Beg de Drummond (aft. 1169-1259), Thane of Lennox, and wife Ada of Lennox, daughter of [[Maol Domhnaich, Earl of Lennox]], and wife Elizabeth or Beatrix Stewart, and had issue: 
** Sir Malcolm Drummond (aft. 1270-1325), Thane of Lennox, who fought in the [[Battle of Dunbar (1296)|Battle of Dunbar]] in 1296, where he was captured by the English, and in 1301 was again captured by the English, and in the [[Battle of Bannockburn]] in 1314, married to ... de Graham, daughter of Sir [[Patrick de Graham]] of Kincardine and wife Annabella of Strathearn, and had issue<ref>Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, pp. 2751 and 3102</ref><ref>Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume VII, p. 30</ref>
** Gilbert Drummond, who was granted the lands and church of [[Old Kilpatrick|Kilpatrick]], as Gilbert de Drumund of Dumbarton appears on the [[Ragman Rolls]] of 1296 swearing fealty to [[Edward I of England]]<ref>Way, George and Squire, Romily. (1994). ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The [[Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs]]). pp. 120 - 121.</ref>
** Walter Drummond, Scottish [[Ambassador]] to England and Secretary to King [[Robert the Bruce]]
** Christian Drummond, who received grants of lands in Ardcurane from [[Maol Choluim I, Earl of Lennox]]
** Margaret Drummond, who received grants of lands in Ardcurane from [[Maol Choluim I, Earl of Lennox]]

==Bibliography==
* Brown, Michael, ''The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371'', (Edinburgh, 2004)
* [[James Balfour Paul|Paul, James Balfour]], ''[[The Scots Peerage]]'', Vol. VI, (Edinburgh, 1909)

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  title=[[Mormaer of Menteith|Countess of Menteith]]|
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