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Mary " Queen of Scots" Stewart 1542–1587 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 14 Dec 1542

Birth Location: Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland

Death Date: 08 Feb 1587

Death Location: Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England

Father: King Stewart

Mother: Queen Guise

Spouse(s): Earl Hepburn, Lord Stuart, King II

Children(s): miscarried Hepburn, stillborn Hepburn, King I, Henry Stuart, Jacques Stuart, Mary Stuart, Charles Stuart, King I

The story of Mary " Queen of Scots" Stewart began in 1542 in Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland. Mary " Queen of Scots" Stewart married Earl James Hepburn, King Francis King Of France Valois Angouleme Ii, Lord Henry Lord Darnley Stuart, and had children including Charles 1St Earl Of Lennox 1555 1576 Stuart, Henry Stuart, Jacques Vi And I Stuart, King Charles King Of England Scotland Ireland I Stuart I, King James Charles Stuart Vi And I, Mary Elizabeth Stuart, Miscarried Twins Hepburn, Stillborn Twin2 Hepburn. Mary " Queen of Scots" Stewart passed away in 1587 in Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England.

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Biography

  • The story of Mary " Queen of Scots" Stewart began in 1542 in Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland.
  • Mary " Queen of Scots" Stewart married Earl James Hepburn, King Francis King Of France Valois Angouleme Ii, Lord Henry Lord Darnley Stuart, and had children including Charles 1St Earl Of Lennox 1555 1576 Stuart, Henry Stuart, Jacques Vi And I Stuart, King Charles King Of England Scotland Ireland I Stuart I, King James Charles Stuart Vi And I, Mary Elizabeth Stuart, Miscarried Twins Hepburn, Stillborn Twin2 Hepburn.
  • Mary " Queen of Scots" Stewart passed away in 1587 in Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England.

Immediate Family

Parents

King Stewart
1512–1543
Birth Location: Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland
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Queen Guise
1515–1560
Birth Location: Bar-le-Duc, Duchy, of, Bar, Meuse, Lorraine, France
QG

Spouses(s)

Earl Hepburn
1536–1578
Birth Location: Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
EH
Lord Stuart
1545–1567
Birth Location: Temple, Newsam Green, Yorkshire, England
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King II
1544–1560
Birth Location: Château de Fontainebleau, Paris France
KI

Children(s)

miscarried Hepburn
1568–1568
Birth Location: Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
mH
stillborn Hepburn
1568–1568
Birth Location: Loch Leven Castle, Kincross, Kinross-shire, Scotland
sH
King I
1566–1625
Birth Location: Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
KI
Henry Stuart
1566–1567
Birth Location: Edinburgh Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
HS
Jacques Stuart
1566–1625
Birth Location: Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
JS
Mary Stuart
1562–1629
Birth Location: St James, Westminster, Middlesex, England
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Charles Stuart
1555–1576
Birth Location: Rufford, Nottinghamshire, England
CS
King I
1564–1660
Birth Location: Holyrood, Midlothian, Scotland
KI

Mary Stewart's Ancestors

Self
Mary Stewart
1542–1587
Birth Place: Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland
Parents
King James V( King of Scotland) Stewart
1512–1543
Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland
Queen (Mary of Guise "Queen of Scotland") Guise
1515–1560
Bar-le-Duc, Duchy, of, Bar, Meuse, Lorraine, France
Grandparents
James Stewart
1473–1513
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Margaret Tudor
1489–1541
Richmond Palace, London, England
Claude (I de) LORRAINE
1496–1550
Castelo de Conde-sur-Moselle, Lisboa, Portugal
Great-Grandparents
King III
1451–1488
Queen Oldenburg
1456–1486
Henry Tudor
1457–1509
Elizabeth York
1466–1503
2nd-Great-Grandparents
King II
1430–1460
Queen Guelders
1433–1463
King Oldenburg
1426–1481
Dorothea Hohenzollern
1430–1495
Edmund Richmond
1430–1456
Margaret Derby
1443–1509
King IV
1442–1483
Elizabeth Woodville
1466–1492

Mary Stewart's Descendants

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Mary (" Queen of Scots") Stewart (14 Dec 1542–08 Feb 1587) m. Earl (James) Hepburn (1536–14 Apr 1578) m. Lord (Henry " Lord Darnley") Stuart (07 Dec 1545–10 Feb 1567) m. King (Francis " King of France" Valois-Angoulême) II (19 Jan 1544–5 Dec 1560)
  1. 1. miscarried (twins) Hepburn 1568–1568
  2. 2. stillborn (twin2) Hepburn 1568–1568
  3. 3. King (James Charles Stuart VI and) I 1566–1625 m. Queen (Anna) Oldenberg 1574–1619
    1. 1. Princess (Margaret) Stuart 1598–1600
    2. 2. Prince (Robert " Duke if Kintyre") Stuart 1602–1602
    3. 3. Princess (Sophia) Stuart 1606–1606
    4. 4. Princess (Mary Anne) Stuart 1605–1607
    5. 5. Prince (Henry Fredrick " Prince of Wales") Stuart 1594–1612
    6. 6. Miscarriage Stuart 1595–1595
    7. 7. Miscarriage Stuart 1603–1603
    8. 8. Queen (Elizabeth " Queen of Bohemia Princess of ScotlandEngland") Stuart 1596–1662 m. Friedrich (of the Palatinate Palatine Simmern) V 1596–1632
      1. 1. Eduard Palatine 1625–1663
      2. 2. Gustav (Adolphus Pfalz) Simmern 1632–1641
      3. 3. Moritz Palatine 1620–1652
      4. 4. Louise (Maria Louise Holladine Hollandine) Palatine 1622–1709
      5. 5. Fredrick (Henry) Palatine 1614–1629
      6. 6. Ludwig Palatine 1623–1624
      7. 7. Charlotte Palatine 1628–1631
      8. 8. Johan (Philip Friederich) Palatine 1627–1650
      9. 9. Henrietta (Pfalzi Maria) Palatine 1626–1651
      10. 10. Elisabeth (Hervorden) Palatine 1618–1680
      11. 11. Ruprecht (Rupert) Palatine 1619–1682
      12. 12. Charles (I Louis Elector) Palatinate 1617–1680 m. Charlotte ("Kurfürstin von der Pfalz" von) Hessen-Kassel 1627–1686 m. Maria (Susanne Loysa von) Degenfeld 1634–1677
        1. 1. Charles (von Pfalz-Simmern) II 1651–1685
        2. 2. Karoline (Elisabeth von der) Pfalz 1659–1696
        3. 3. Luise (Raugräfin zu) Pfalz 1661–1733
        4. 4. Amalie (Elisabeth Raugräfin zu) Pfalz 1663–1709
        5. 5. Elisabeth (Charlotte 'Liselotte' von der) Pfalz-Simmern 1652–1722 m. Philippe (de Bourbon) I 1640–1701
      13. 13. Sophia (Hanover Electress Brunswick-Luneburg) Wittlesbach 1630–1714 m. Ernest (Augustus) Hanover 1629–1698
        1. 1. Sophie (Charlotte of) Hanover 1668–1705
        2. 2. Ernst (August II. von) Braunschweig-Lüneburg 1674–1728
        3. 3. Christian (Heinrich von) Hannover 1671–1703
        4. 4. Karl (Philipp von) Hannover 1669–1690
        5. 5. Prince (Frederick Augustus) Hanover 1661–1690
        6. 6. Duke (Maximilian William of Brunswick-Lüneburg) Hanover 1666–1726
        7. 7. King (George Louis " King of England" Hanover) I 1660–1727 m. Melusine ((Duchess of Kendal) von der) Schulenburg 1667–1743 m. Queen (Sophia Dorothea von) Braunschweig-Lüneburg 1666–1726
    9. 9. King (Charles "King of England" Stuart) I 1600–1649 m. Henrietta (Maria "of France") Bourbon 1609–1669
      1. 1. Maria (Henriëtte) Stuart 1631–1660 m. William ('Prince of Orange" Orange-Nassau') II 1626–1650
        1. 1. King (William of Orange) Orange-Nassau 1650–1702 m. Queen (Mary II "Queen of England Scotland and Ireland" Stuart) II 1662–1694
        2. 2. William England 1649–1708
        3. 3. III Willem 1650–1702
        4. 4. John, (Prince) Orange-Nassau 1650–1718
      2. 2. Charles (James "Duke of Cornwell") Stuart 1629–1629
      3. 3. Princess (Catherine) Stuart 1639–1639
      4. 4. Prince (Henry "Duke of Gloucester") Stuart 1640–1660
      5. 5. Princess (Elizabeth) Stuart 1635–1850
      6. 6. Princess (Anne) Stuart 1637–1640
      7. 7. Princess (Henrietta Anne) Stuart 1644–1670 m. Louis (Philippe I (Duke of Orleans) de) Bourbon 1640–1701
        1. 1. Philippe (Charles) D'Orleans 1664–1666 m. Françoise (Marie de) Bourbon 1677–1749
        2. 2. Maria (Louisa) D'Orléans 1662–1689
        3. 3. Queen (Anne Marie " Queen of Sardinia" de Bourbon -) d'Orleans 1669–1728 m. King (Victor Amadeus " King of Sardinia" de savoie) II 1666–1732
        4. 4. Alexandre (Louis de) Orléans 1673–1676
        5. 5. Philippe (d'Orléans) II 1674–1723
        6. 6. Élisabeth (Charlotte) d'Orléans 1676–1744
        7. 7. N d'Orléans 1667–1667
        8. 8. Ne d'Orléans 1665–1665
        9. 9. Anne-Marie d'Orléans 1669–1728
        10. 10. Maria (Louisa) d'Orléans 1662–1689
      8. 8. James (II King of England) Stuart 1633–1701 m. Arabella Churchill 1648–1730 m. Queen (Ann " Duchess of York and Albany") Hyde 1637–1671 m. Maria (Beatrice "of Modena") d'ESTE 1658–1718
        1. 1. Princess (Louisa Maria Teresa) Stuart 1692–1712
        2. 2. Prince (James "Duke of Cambridge") Stuart 1663–1667
        3. 3. Prince (Charles "Duke of Kendal") Stuart 1666–1667
        4. 4. Prince (Charles "Duke of Cambridge") Stuart 1660–1661
        5. 5. Queen (Mary II "Queen of England Scotland and Ireland" Stuart) II 1662–1694 m. King (William of Orange) Orange-Nassau 1650–1702
        6. 6. Miscarrage Stuart 1674–1674
        7. 7. Princess (Catherine Laura) Stuart 1675–1675
        8. 8. Princess (Isabel) Stuart 1676–1681
        9. 9. Princess (Elizabeth) Stuart 1678–1678
        10. 10. Stillborn Stuart 1681–1681
        11. 11. Princess (Charlotte Maria) Stuart 1682–1682
        12. 12. Stillborn Stuart 1683–1683
        13. 13. Miscarriage Stuart 1684–1684
        14. 14. Prince (James Francis Edward "Prince of Wales") Stuart 1688–1766 m. Maria (Clementine) Sobieska 1702–1735
        15. 15. Queen (Anne "Queen of Great Britain") Stuart 1665–1714 m. Prince (George of Denmark & Norway) Oldenburg 1653–1708
        16. 16. Henrietta FitzJames 1667–1730 m. Piers (3rd Viscount Galmoye) Butler 1652–1740 m. Henry (Waldegrave 1st Baron Waldegrave of) Chewton 1661–1689
        17. 17. James (Fitzjames) Stuart 1670–1734 m. Honora Bourke 1674–1698 m. Anne Bulkeley 1680–1751
        18. 18. Henry Fitzjames 1673–1702 m. Marie (Gabrielle d'Audibert de) Lussan 1675–1741
        19. 19. Arabella (Ignatia "Nun at Pontoise") FitzJames 1674–1704
        20. 20. Edgard Stuart 1667–1671
        21. 21. Ignatia (Fitzjames) Stuart 1673–1704
        22. 22. Arabella (Ignatia FitzJames) (Stuart) 1673–1704
        23. 23. James (1st Duke of Berwick, Earl of Tinmouth and Baron Bosworth) FitzJames 1670–1734
        24. 24. Henry (Albemarle FitzJames) Stuart 1673–1702
      9. 9. King (Charles "King of England Scotland & Ireland Stuart) II 1630–1685 m. Queen (Catherine of Braganza) Braganza 1638–1705
    10. 10. James (VI) Stewart 1601–1602
    11. 11. Sophia (Rosula Stuart Queen of) Bohemia 1592–1662
    12. 12. Frederick (V of the Palatinate 'The Winter) King' 1596–1632
  4. 4. Henry Stuart 1566–1567
  5. 5. Jacques (VI and I) Stuart 1566–1625
  6. 6. Mary (Elizabeth) Stuart 1562–1629
  7. 7. Charles ("1st Earl of Lennox (1555-1576)") Stuart 1555–1576
  8. 8. King (Charles "King of England, Scotland, & Ireland I " Stuart) I 1564–1660

Mary Stewart's Timeline

3 Records

1542
08 Dec 1542
Birth of Mary " Queen of Scots" Stewart in Castle Linlithgow, Linlithgow, Lothian, Scotland
Castle Linlithgow, Linlithgow, Lothian, Scotland
1542
14 Dec 1542
Birth of Mary " Queen of Scots" Stewart in Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland
Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland
1587
08 Feb 1587
Age 45
Death of Mary " Queen of Scots" Stewart in Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England
Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 08 Dec 1542
    Event Place: Castle Linlithgow, Linlithgow, Lothian, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 14 Dec 1542
    Event Place: Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland
    Record Source:
    [1] Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index
    [2] UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 08 Feb 1587
    Event Place: Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England
    Record Source:
    [1] Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index
    [2] UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Burial
    Event Place: Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England
    Record Source: UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index
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