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STEWART, John 3rd Earl of Lennox
(About 1490-1526)
STEWART, Elizabeth(2)
(About 1491-)
DOUGLAS, Archibald 6th Earl of Angus
(About 1489-1557)
TUDOR, Margaret
(1489-1541)
STEWART, Matthew 4th Earl of Lennox
(1516-1571)
DOUGLAS, Margaret Countess of Lennox
(1515-1578)
STEWART, Henry Duke of Albany, Lord Darnley, King of Scots
(1545-1567)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. STEWART, Mary Queen of Scots

STEWART, Henry Duke of Albany, Lord Darnley, King of Scots 1 2

  • Born: 7 December 1545, Temple Newsham, Yorkshire, England 2
  • Marriage (1): STEWART, Mary Queen of Scots on 29 July 1565 1
  • Died: 10 February 1567, Kirk O' Field, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 2

   Cause of his death was murder.

   User ID: K156.


Henry married Mary STEWART Queen of Scots, daughter of James V STEWART King of Scots and Marie DE LORRAINE, on 29 July 1565.1 (Mary STEWART Queen of Scots was born on 8 December 1542,1 died 8 February 1586(1587) in Fotheringay Castle, Northamptonshire, Scotland 1 and was buried in Peterborough, England, then Westminster Abbey, London, England 1.). The cause of her death was execution by beheading.


  Marriage Notes:

"The widowed Queen Mary returned to Scotland on 19 August 1561, and on 29 July 1565 was married to her cousin, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, eldest son of Matthew Stewart, Earl of Lennox, and Lady Margaret Douglas, daughter of Queen Margaret Tudor. Henry, Lord Darnley, King of Scots, was, after an unhappy married life, murdered at Edinburgh on 10 February 1566-67, leaving an only child, afterwards James VI"

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) 1

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).

2 ancestry.co.uk, Dictionary of National Biography.

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