Donald A.C. Simmons Jr. Family Tree » Lady Margaret Erskine (1515-1572)

Personal data Lady Margaret Erskine 

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Household of Lady Margaret Erskine

(1) She is married to Sir Lord John Wemyss, Knight of Wemyss, Lord of Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss.

They got married on October 20, 1534 at Redhall, Edinburgh or Bogie, Midlothian, Scotland, she was 19 years old.


Child(ren):

  6. Daughter Wemyss  1540-1593
  7. Agnes Wemyss  1542-1593
  8. Elizabeth Richmond  1544-1593
  10. Elizabeth Wemyss  < 1556-1593
  11. Sir John Stewart  1557-1624 
  12. Sir John Wemyss  1557-1624
  13. Gavin Wemyss  1558-1624
  14. Patrick Wemyss  ± 1560-1596


(2) She had a relationship with William Douglas.


Child(ren):



Child(ren):

  1. James Stewart  1531-1570 

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Birthday October 8, 1515

  • Graaf Maximiliaan (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1506 till 1515 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1515: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » Coronation of Francis I of France takes place at Reims Cathedral, where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of Charlemagne.
    • May 13 » Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, are officially married at Greenwich.
    • September 10 » Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.

Day of marriage October 20, 1534

  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1534: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 11 » Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
    • April 20 » Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
    • July 7 » Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
    • August 15 » Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
    • November 3 » English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
    • December 6 » The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.

Day of death May 5, 1572

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1572: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 1 » In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
    • July 9 » Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
    • August 18 » Marriage in Paris, France, of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
    • October 20 » Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the relief of Goes.
    • November 11 » Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.
    • December 23 » Theologian Johann Sylvan is executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.


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