Ancestral Trails 2016 » Annabella STEWART (1435-1509)

Personal data Annabella STEWART 

• She was born in the year 1435 in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-1447) below 16 years (12).

• Title: Princess of Scotland
• (Alternative Name) : Annabella of Scotland.
• She died on June 27, 1509 in Roxburgh Castle, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, she was 74 years old.
• A child of James I STEWART and Joan BEAUFORT

Household of Annabella STEWART

(1) She is married to George GORDON.

They got married about 1459.

Child(ren):

1. Isabella GORDON  ± 1463-1523 
2. Adam GORDON  ± 1459-1537 
3. Janet GORDON  ± 1462-± 1558
4. Alexander GORDON  ± 1461-1523 
5. Elizabeth GORDON  ± 1462-1525 

(2) She is married to Louis de SAVOY.

They got married in the year 1447, she was 12 years old.

Notes about Annabella STEWART

Annabella Stewart (c. 1436 - 1509) was the youngest daughter of King James I and Joan Beaufort.

Annabella was presumably named after her father's mother, Annabella Drummond. She was the youngest of the six daughters and two sons of James I and Joan Beaufort. Her sisters were Margaret, Isabella, Eleanor, Mary and Joan, and her brothers were James II of Scotland and his twin brother Alexander, who died in infancy.

First marriage
Her first husband was Louis of Savoy, Count of Geneva whom she married in 1447 on either 1 April or 14 December. However, in the year 1458 they separated, divorced and the marriage was annulled upon the request of Charles VII of France.

Second marriage
Annabella returned to Scotland and married George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly. Notwithstanding this alliance, her ill fate pursued her, and she was legally divorced from her second husband by a sentence pronounced in the year 1471 which proceeded on the ground of consanguinity with his first wife, Elizabeth Dunbar, 8th Countess of Murray, as the two ladies were within the third and fourth degrees of relation.

Issue
Annabella and her second husband, the Earl of Huntly had issue:

Isabella (d. 1485), wife of William Hay, 3rd Earl of Erroll (d. 1507).
Alexander, 3rd Earl of Huntly (d. 1523)

She was thought also to have been mother to another four of his children, however this has not been proved nor disproved.

Lord Byron claimed descent from Princess Annabella through his mother, Catherine, daughter of George Gordon, 12th Lord of Gight. Byron wrote: "By her [Annabella] he [the 2nd Earl of Huntly] left four sons: the third, Sir William Gordon, I have the honour to claim as one of my progenitors."
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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