Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Here in early October she gave birth to Lady Margaret Douglas, the future Countess of Lennox and mother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, cousin and second husband to Mary, Queen of Scots, and father of the future James VI. [53] Margaret was in a lot of pain after the birth and may have been suffering from sciatica.
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart [2] or Mary I of Scotland, [3] was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland , Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne.
Mary, Queen of Scots, Mary of Guise's daughter, for whom she acted as regent from 1554 to 1560 In December 1552, Mary of Austria, Queen of Hungary , sister of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , pointed out to Mary that her diplomatic complaints had no force and must come from Arran.
James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. Mary and Darnley were great-grandchildren of Henry VII of England through Margaret Tudor, the older sister of Henry VIII. Mary's rule over Scotland was insecure, and she and her husband, being Roman Catholics, faced a rebellion by Protestant ...
Mary and Francis were betrothed at the Louvre on 19 April 1558. [18] They signed a contract in which Mary declared her wish and consent to marry, with the advice of the representatives of the Three Estates of Scotland and her grandmother, Antoinette of Bourbon, the Dowager Duchess of Guise. [19] The formalities were followed by dancing. [20]
Mary of Guelders (Dutch: Maria van Gelre; c. 1434/1435 – 1 December 1463) was Queen of Scots by marriage to King James II. She ruled as regent of Scotland from 1460 to 1463. [ 1 ]
The letters date from 1578 to 1584, a few years before Mary’s beheading 436 years ago.
Mary MacLeod was a Scottish aristocrat at the court of Mary, Queen of Scots. [1] The tomb of Mary’s grandfather at St Clement's Church, Rodel. Mary MacLeod was the daughter and heir of William MacLeod of Harris, and a granddaughter of Alasdair Crotach MacLeod. Her name was sometimes spelled "McCloyde" or "McCloid", or "Marie Clawde".