Sherren Family Tree » Mary Stuart (Queen of Scotland & France) (1542-1587)

Personal data Mary Stuart (Queen of Scotland & France) 

Source 1Sources 1, 2, 3, 4
  • She was born on December 8, 1542 in Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgowshire, Kingdom of Scotland.Sources 1, 2, 3, 5

    Waarschuwing Attention: Age at marriage (April 24, 1558) below 16 years (15).

  • (Coat of Arms) in the year 1542: "STEWART".Source 5
  • (Crowned) on September 9, 1543 in Stirling Castle, Stirlingshire, Scotland: At the age of 6 days old, she became "Queen of Scots".Source 5
  • (Imprisoned) on July 24, 1567 in Loch Leven Castle, Scotland: After Carberry Hill in 1567, she surrendered, was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle, Kinross-shire and forced to abdicate the throne of Scotland in favour of her infant son..
  • She died on February 8, 1587 in Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England, she was 44 years old.Sources 2, 3, 5
    Roman Catholic plots against Queen Elizabeth I led Elizabeth's ministers to demand Mary's execution. Elizabeth was reluctant to sign the death warrant, but Mary was executed.
  • She is buried in the year 1587 in Peterborough Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, England.Source 3
    She was buried in Peterborough Cathedral. In 1612 her son by then James I of England and James VI of Scotland had her body exhumed and placed in the vault of King Henry VII's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
  • A child of James v Stewart and Mary Guise

Household of Mary Stuart (Queen of Scotland & France)

(1) She is married to Francis ii (King of France & King Consort of Scotland).

They got married on April 24, 1558 at Paris, Île-de-France, France, she was 15 years old.


(2) She is married to Henry Stuart.

They got married on July 29, 1565 at Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Kingdom of Scotland, she was 22 years old.Source 1


Child(ren):

  1. James Stuart  1566-1625 


(3) She is married to James Hepburn.

They got married on May 15, 1567, she was 24 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Mary Stuart

James iv Stewart
1473-1513
Margaret Tudor
1489-1541
Claude Guise
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Antoinette Bourbon
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Mary Guise
1515-1560

Mary Stuart
1542-1587

(1) 1558

Francis ii (King of France & King Consort of Scotland)
1544-1560

(2) 1565

Henry Stuart
1545-1567

James Stuart
1566-1625
(3) 1567

James Hepburn
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Sources

  1. Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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Birthday December 8, 1542

  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1542: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 6 » Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
    • May 19 » The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Myanmar.
    • August 26 » Francisco de Orellana navigated the Amazon River, reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
    • September 28 » Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California.
    • November 24 » Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
    • December 14 » Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of Scots at the age of one week on the death of her father, James V of Scotland.

Day of marriage May 15, 1567

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1567: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 20 » Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.
    • February 10 » Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
    • May 15 » Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
    • May 24 » Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.
    • July 24 » Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
    • July 25 » Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.

Day of death February 8, 1587

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1587: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 8 » Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
    • July 22 » Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
    • October 31 » Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.


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