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Brother became king 9 December 1165 Became king Malcolm IV: David, Earl of Huntingdon: Heir presumptive Younger brother 9 December 1165 Brother became king 1193 Daughter born to king William I: Margaret: Heiress presumptive Eldest daughter 1193 Born 24 August 1198 Brother born Alexander: Heir apparent Son 24 August 1198 Born 4 December 1214 ...
James asserted that hereditary right was superior to statutory provision and, as King of Scotland, was powerful enough to deter any rival. He reigned as James I of England and Ireland, thus effecting the Union of the Crowns, although England and Scotland remained separate sovereign states until 1707. His succession was rapidly ratified by ...
This is a family tree for the kings and queens of Scotland, since the unification under the House of Alpin in 834, to the personal union with England in 1603 under James VI of Scotland. It includes also the Houses of Dunkeld , Balliol , Bruce , and Stewart .
The Jacobite succession is the line through which Jacobites believed that the crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland should have descended, applying male preference primogeniture, since the deposition of James II and VII in 1688 and his death in 1701.
The succession to Stephen was altered by the death of his son Eustace, whom he wished to have crowned king during his own lifetime (in imitation of the Capetian monarchy). Though Stephen still had a son, William , the boy was still young and unprepared to challenge Matilda's son, Henry of Anjou for the throne.
Charles I, King of England and Scotland (d. 1649) James II and VII, King of England and Scotland (d. 1701) Anne's half-brother and first in line to the throne, James Francis Edward Stuart (1) James Francis Edward Stuart (1688–1766): Claimant from 1701 in opposition to heir designate George I Louis, Elector of Hanover. Henrietta of England (d ...
Upon her abdication, her son, fathered by Henry, Lord Darnley, a junior member of the Stewart family, became King as James VI. James VI became King of England and Ireland as James I in 1603 when his cousin Elizabeth I died. Thereafter, although the two crowns of England and Scotland remained separate, the monarchy was based chiefly in England.