History of the Stewarts | Family Lines
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MARY Stuart
Queen of Scotland
QUEEN MARY was born 1542, and succeeded to the Throne when only seven days old.
She was beheaded at Fotheringay Castle, 1587.
She married, first, the Dauphin of France, 1558, Who afterwards became King Francis II.
He died 1560, and the queen returned to Scotland.
In 1565 she married her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Damley, son of Matthew, Earl of Lennox (see HENRY, Duke of Albany ), but he was murdered, 1567, leaving an only child
(a) JAMES VI. and I, King of Scotland and England, who succeeded to the Throne.
Queen Mary married, thirdly, in 1567, James Hepburn, fourth EARL OF BOTHWELL, whom she created DUKE OF ORKNEY and Marquis of Fife. After the battle of Langside in 1568 she fled to England, where she remained till her death. He had previously been m. to Jean, daughter of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, by c/m 20
February 1566 and whom he divorced upon dubious grounds in order to be able to marry the Queen. He d. in prison in Malmo, Sweden, in 1576.
Arms: of Queen Mary.-Scotland. SUPPORTERS: At one time two lions rampant, at another two unicorns chained, and gorged with crowns. CREST: A lion sejant affronte crowned, in right paw a naked sword, in left a sceptre. MOTTO: "In_defens."
