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Personal data Henry Stuart , Lord Darnley [[Ch-Wikibio]] sss 

• He was born on December 7, 1545 in Temple Newsham, Yorkshire, England.
• (Titled ) in Lord Darnley.
• (Titled ) in Lord Ardmannoch.
• (Titled ) in Earl of Ross.
• He died on February 10, 1566/1567 in Provost's House, Kirk o' the Field, Edinburg, Midlotian, Scotland, he was 20 years old.

  Oorzaak: murdered by strangulation after lodgings exploded by massive amount of gunpowder

• He is buried on February 14, 1566/1567 in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• A child of Matthew Stuart and Lady Margaret Douglas
• This information was last updated on March 15, 2023.

Household of Henry Stuart , Lord Darnley [[Ch-Wikibio]] sss

He is married to Mary Stewart Queen of Scots Scotland.

They got married on July 29, 1565 at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, he was 19 years old.

Child(ren):

1. James I and VI King of England  1566-1625 

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The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, was her cousin HenryStuart. Henry was a thoroughly disreputable young man that historydescribes as vain, arrogant, self-centered, egotistical, and disliked by many of his peers. Nevertheless, this was the man Mary chose to be her second husband. His Catholic birthright did not enamour him to the powerful Scottish lords and against their advice and stong protestations,Mary married Henry on July 29th, 1565 in the Chapel at Holyrood Palace,Edinburgh. He was in line for the throne of England through his mother,the Lady Margaret Douglas, and was Catholic by birth but had embraced Anglicanism at the court of Elizabeth 1st. Henry was considered to be handsome by the standards of that time. Mary, a very young and lonely widow, said of him when she first saw him at Wemyss Castle, "he was the properest and best proportioned long man that ever she had seen .... ."In other words, he was tall and handsome. He was over six foot tall, (his height has been estimated between 6' 1" to 6' 3".) Since Mary was 6' tall she must have found this to be a pleasant change from the smaller stature of the Scottish lords who attended her at court. At last, a dance partner that she did not tower over! Also, coming from the English court of Elizabeth, he charmed her with his courtly manners, his fine clothes and conversational ability. Something that was missing in the rough and sometimes rowdy Scottish nobility. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, a great-grandson of Henry VII of England, with claims to both English and Scottish crowns, had always a possible candidate for Mary's hand, and, as more powerful suitors fell out, his chances improved. He was, moreover, a Catholic, though of an accommodating sort, for he had been brought up at Elizabeth's court, and she in February, 1565, let him go to Scotland.Mary, at first cool, soon fell violently in love. The Protestant lords rose in arms, and Elizabeth backed up their rebellion, but Mary drove them victoriously from the country and married Darnley before thedispensation required to remove the impediment arising from their beingfirst cousins had arrived from Rome. But she did leave enough time for adispensation to be granted, and it was eventually conceded in a form thatwould suffice, if that were necessary, for a "sanatio in radice". As soon as the victory had been won, Darnley was found to be changeable, quarrelsome, and, presumably, also vicious. He became violently jealousof David Rizzio, who, so far as we can see, was perfectly innocent and inoffensive, a merry fellow who helped the queen in her foreign correspondence and sometimes amused her with music. Darnley now entered into a band with the same lords who had lately risen in rebellion againsthim: they were to seize Rizzio in the queen's presence, put him to death,and obtain the crown matrimonial for Darnley, who would secure a pardonfor them, and reward them. The plot succeeded: Rizzio, tornfrom Mary'stable, was poignarded outside her door (9 March, 1566). Mary, though kept a prisoner, managed to escape, and again triumphed over her foes; but respect for her husband was no longer possible. Her favourite was now James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, who had served her with courage and fidelity, in the late crisis. Then a band for Darnley's murder was signedat Ainsley by most of the nobles who had been implicated in the previousplots. Darnley, who had been ill in Glasgow, was brought back toEdinburgh by his wife, and lay that night in her lodgings at Kirk o'Field. At two the next morning (10 February, 1567) the house was blown upby powder, and the boy (he had only just come of age) was killed. Inquiry into the murder was most perfunctory. Bothwell, who was charged with it,was found not guilty by his peers (12 April), and on the 24th he carried Mary off by force to Dunbar, where she consented to marry him.

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