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

   Cause of his death was murder.

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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)




"Henry, Lord Darnley, eldest son and heir, born at Temple Newsome, 7 December 1545. In early youth he visited France, and was well received, and on the death of Francis II. of France he was at once proposed by one faction as a suitable husband for his widowed cousin Mary, Queen of Scots. He was married to her 29 July 1565, at Holyroodhouse, having been created, 15 May 1565, with remainder to the heirs of his body, Earl of Rosse, Lord of Ardmanach, and on 20 July 1565, Duke of Albany, with the same remainder, and received on 28 July, by proclamation of the Queen, the title of King. As is well known the King and Queen's married happiness was short-lived, and he was assassinated at Kirk of Field 9 February 1567, having had one son,

(1) King James VI. of Scotland and I. of England, who succeeded his grandfather as fifth Earl of Lennox, but conveyed the title to his uncle Charles."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ^{1 3}