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Personal data Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland 

• Alternative names: Lady Joan Beaufort, Jane Joan Beaufort, Joan Beaufort
• She was born on December 27, 1407 in Beaufort Castle, Goudet, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France-Kettlethorpe Hall, Kettlethorpe, Lincolnshire, England.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1391.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1404 in Main, Loire, Rhone-Alpes, France.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1379 in Falkland, Fife, Scotland.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1404 in Westminster, Middlesex, England.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1404 in Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England.Source 4
• Alternative: She was born on December 27, 1407 in Westminster, Middlesex, England.
• (Marriage) February 1424 in St. Andrew's, Fifeshire, Scotland: Spouse: James Stewart, The Black Knight of Lorn.Source 5
• She died on July 15, 1445 in Dunbar Castle, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland, she was 37 years old.Source 6
• Alternative: She died on July 15, 1445 in Lorne, Argyllshire, Scotland, she was 37 years old.
• Alternative: She died on June 15, 1445 in Stcthrnbythtower, London, Middlesex, England, she was 37 years old.Sources 4, 7
• Alternative: She died on July 15, 1445 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland, she was 37 years old.Source 8
• She is buried in Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.Source 4
• Alternative: She is buried in Charter House, Perth, Scotland.
• A child of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Lady Margaret Holland, Duchess of Clarence

Household of Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland

(1) She is married to James I Stewart, King of Scotland.

They got married on February 2, 1424 at Southwark, Surrey, England, she was 16 years old.Source 9

Child(ren):

1. Margaret Stewart, Princess of Scotland  1424-1445
2. Isabella Stewart, Princess of Scotland  1426-1509
3. Lady Annabella Joan "Muta Domina" Stewart, Countess of Morton, Lady Dalkeith  1428-1486 
4. Mary Stewart, Countess of Buchan  1429-1465
5. James II "the Hearty" "Fiery Face" Stewart, King of Scotland  1430-1460 

(2) She is married to James Black Knight Stewart.

They got married in the year 1439, she was 31 years old.

Notes about Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland

a possible birth date was 27 December 1406o 1437 as the spouse of King James I of Scotland. During part of the minority of her son James II (from 1437 to 1439), she served as the Regent of Scotland."the Black Knight of Lorn (m. 1439; her death 1445)/www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9401207p://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6192&tree=Nixon

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~ John "Lord Darnley, 1st Earl of Lennox" Stewart ~

Born: 1422 in Inchmurrin Isle, Dunbartonshire, Scotland

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Died: 8 Jul 1495 in Darnley, Renfrewshire, Scotland

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John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox Died: 8 Jul 1495) was known as Lord Darnley and later as the Earl of Lennox. John was the son of Sir Alan Stewart and Catherine Seton and has been confused with another John Stewart, the son of James Stewart "The Black Knight of Lorn" and Joan Beaufort, widow of King James I. Joan's husbands also being confused in the past.

He was created 1st Earl of Lennox on 6 August 1473. He held the office of Lord Warden of the West March in 1481. In 1482 he was one of the lords who seized King James III, but was pardoned. He held the office of Keeper of Dumbarton Castle in 1488.

Marriage

On 15 May 1438 John Stewart married his first wife Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of Alexander Montgomerie (1st Lord Montgomerie) and his wife Margaret Boyd by indenture, with both parties being underage. and had issue:
Parents

Father
Sir Alan Stewart of Darnley (1406-1439) Stewart of Darnley family, involved in the Hundred Years War.
Mother
Catherine Seton Stewart

Spouse:
Margaret "Countess of Lennox" Stewart formerly Montgomerie
Born: about 1425 in Ardrossen, Ayrshire, Scotland
Died: 30 May 1493 in Falahill, Eddelston, Peebleshire, Scotland

Children

Children of John Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox and Margaret Montgomerie
1. Sir William Stewart, Seigneur d'Oison. d. c 1503.
2. Alexander Stewart. d. c 1509.
3. Sir John Stewart, Seigneur d'Oison. d. 1512.
4. Lady Marion Stuart. d. fr Feb 1483/84 - Feb 1491/92.
5. Lady Elizabeth Stewart.
6. Matthew Stuart, 2nd Earl of Lennox. b. bt 1460 - 1470, d. 9 Sep 1513.
7. Sir Robert Stuart, 4th Seigneur d'Aubigny. b. c 1470, d. 1543.
8. Alan Stewart, 1st of Cardonald.

Scottish Monarch. Queen consort of James I. The daughter of John Beaufort, Marquess of Somerset and Margaret Holland, she caught the eye of James I during his imprisonment in England. She so inspired him that he wrote a long love poem to her, The King's Quhair. They were married in Southwark on February 2, 1424. Together they had eight children, including the future James II. Two years after her husband's murder, she married James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn, in 1439. She had one son by Stewart, John, Earl of Atholl. Joan died at Dunbar Castle.

Joan Beaufort (died 15 July 1445) was the Queen of Scotland from 1424 to 1437 as the spouse of King James I of Scotland. During part of the minority of her son James II (from 1437 to 1439), she served as the regent of Scotland.
Background and early life

Joan Beaufort was a daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, a legitimated son of John of Gaunt by his mistress (and later wife) Catherine Swynford.[1] Joan's mother was Margaret Holland,[2] the granddaughter of Joan of Kent (wife of Edward the Black Prince) from her marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent. Joan was also a half-niece of King Henry IV of England, great-niece of Richard II and great grand-daughter of Edward III. Her uncle, Henry Beaufort, was a cardinal and Chancellor of England.[3]
King James I of Scotland met Joan during his time as a prisoner in England, and knew her from at least 1420.[2] She is said to have been the inspiration for King James' famous long poem, The Kingis Quair, written during his captivity, after he saw her from his window in the garden.[4] The marriage was at least partially political, as their marriage was part of the agreement for his release from captivity. From an English perspective an alliance with the Beauforts was meant to establish his country's alliance with the English, rather than the French.[2] Negotiations resulted in Joan's dowry of 10,000 merks being subtracted from James's substantial ransom.[5]
Queen of Scotland
On 12 February 1424, Joan Beaufort and King James were wed at St Mary Overie Church in Southwark.[2][6] They were feasted at Winchester Palace that year by her uncle Cardinal Henry Beaufort. She accompanied her husband on his return from captivity in England to Scotland, and was crowned alongside her husband at Scone Abbey. As queen, she often pleaded with the king for those who might be executed.[7]

The royal couple had eight children, including the future James II, and Margaret of Scotland, future spouse of Louis XI of France.[2]

Regency
James I was assassinated in Perth on 21 February 1437. Joan had also been a target of assassination along with her husband, but managed to survive her injuries.[2] She successfully directed her husband's supporters to attack his assassin Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, but was forced to give up power three months later.[2] The prospect of being ruled by an English woman was unpopular in Scotland.[2] The Earl of Douglas was thus appointed to power, though Joan remained in charge of her son.[2]

Near the end of July 1439, she married James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorne[2] after obtaining a papal dispensation for both consanguinity and affinity. James was an ally of the latest Earl of Douglas, and plotted with him to overthrow Alexander Livingston, governor of Stirling Castle, during the minority of James II.[citation needed] Livingston arrested Joan in August 1439 and forced her to relinquish custody of the young king.[2] In 1445, the conflict between the Douglas/Livingston faction and the queen's supporters resumed, and she was under siege at Dunbar Castle by the Earl of Douglas when she died on 15 July 1445. She was buried in the Carthusian Priory at Perth.[2][6]

Issue with James I of Scotland
Margaret Stewart, Princess of Scotland (1424–1445) married Prince Louis, Dauphin of Viennois (later King Louis XI of France)
Isabella Stewart, Princess of Scotland (1426–1494) married Francis I, Duke of Brittany
Mary Stewart, Countess of Buchan (died 1465) married Wolfart VI van Borsselen
Joan of Scotland, Countess of Morton (c. 1428–1486) married James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (born and died 1430); Twin of James
James II of Scotland (1430–1460)
Annabella Stewart, Princess of Scotland married and divorced 1. Louis of Savoy, and then married and divorced 2. George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly
Eleanor Stewart, Princess of Scotland (1433–1484) married Sigismund, Archduke of Austria.

Issue with James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorne
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl (c. 1440 – 1512)
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan (1442–1499)
Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Moray (c. 1443 – 1501)

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