MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

MARY I OF SCOTLAND

MARY STUART
MARY STEWART

BIRTH: 08 Dec 1542, Linlithgow Palace, Scotland
MARRIAGE: 1. (to Francis II of France) 24 Apr 1558, Notre Dame de Paris
2. (to Henry Stuart) 29 Jul 1565, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh
3. (to James Hepburn) 15 May 1567, Holyrood, Edinburgh
DEATH: 08 Feb 1587, Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire
BURIAL: Aug 1587, Peterborough Cathedral, Cambridgeshire; 11 Oct 1612, re-interred at Westminster Abbey, Westminster

LINEAGE

PARENTS:

JAMES V OF SCOTLAND

King of Scotland 1513-1542
Died on 14 Dec 1542

1512-1542

MARIE DE GUISE

second wife of James V

1515-1560

SIBLINGS:

JAMES STUART

James, Duke of Rothesay
died 14 hours after brother

1540-1541

ROBERT STUART

Robert, Duke of Albany
died at 9 days old

1541-1541

HALF-SIBLINGS:

(FROM MOTHER MARY OF GUISE'S FIRST MARRIAGE TO LOUIS II D'ORLEANS, DUC DE LONGUEVILLE d.1537):

FRANÇOIS DE LONGUEVILLE

François III d'Orléans,
Duke of Longueville

1535-1551

LOUIS DE LONGUEVILLE

died very young

1537-?

(FATHER JAMES V HAD 9 ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN, WITH 8 DIFFERENT MISTRESSES c.1529-1533, INCLUDING):

JAMES STEWART

1st Earl of Moray
Regent for James VI 1567-70

c.1531-1570

SPOUSES:

FRANÇOIS II OF FRANCE

King of France

1544-1560

HENRY STUART

Lord Darnley
Duke of Albany

1546-1567

JAMES HEPBURN

1st Duke of Orkney
4th Earl of Bothwell

c.1534-1568

CHILD:

JAMES VI AND I

James VI of Scotland
James I of England and Ireland

1566-1625

Detail from 'Mary, Queen of Scots' François Clouet, c.1549 © Yale University Art Gallery

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