)[7][8] To counter Stewart influence, David II of Scotland pardoned John Logie in September 1343, son of a conspirator against Robert the Bruce in 1320, and restored to him the large lordship of Strathgartney bordering the earldoms of Menteith and Lennox.
At the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346, the king was apparently deserted by some of his subjects and led off to eleven years' captivity in England.
After Neville's Cross the Steward as lieutenant would allow John Menteith to recover Strathgartney: This led David, when he returned from England in 1357/58, to try again to restore Logie's sasine.
[1] Walter Bower claimed in Scotichronicon that: "with the aim therefore of providing for the succession to the kingdom from the fruit of her womb (if God granted it), King David chose a most beautiful lady, Margaret Logie, not so much for the excellence of her character … as for the pleasure he took in her desirable appearance"[12] She was the first Scotswoman since the 11th century to marry a reigning King of Scots.
In Avignon she had an audience with and made a successful appeal to the Pope Urban V to reverse the sentence of divorce which had been pronounced against her in Scotland.