Margaret Tudor was born on 28 Nov 1489 at Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England.[1][2][3]
Marriage & Children
She and James IV Stewart, King of Scotland obtained a marriage license on 28 July 1500; Date of Dispensation.[1][2] Margaret Tudor married James IV Stewart, King of Scotland, son of James III Stewart, King of Scotland and Margareta of Denmark, on 8 August 1503 at Holyrood Abbey Church, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. They had 5 sons & 1 daughter, including:[1][2][3][4][5][6]
James
Arthur
James V, King of Scotland
Alexander
She married, secondly, Sir Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, High Chancellor of Scotland, son of George Douglas, Master of Angus and Elizabeth Drummond, on 6 August 1514 at Chapel of Kinnoull, Kinnoull, Perthshire, Scotland. They had 1 daughter:[1][2][3][4][5]
Margaret, wife of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, Lord Darnley
Margaret Tudor and Sir Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, High Chancellor of Scotland were divorced on 11 March 1528; Divorced on the grounds of a pre-contract.[1][2][3]
She married, thirdly, Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven, son of Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Avandale and Margaret Kennedy, circa 2 April 1528; No issue.[1][2][3][4][5]
Margaret Tudor died on 18 October 1541 at Methven Castle, Perthshire, Scotland, at age 51; Buried in the Carthusian Monastery of St. John at Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.[1][2][3]
↑ 2.02.12.22.32.42.52.6
Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 588-589.
↑ 3.03.13.23.33.43.5
Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 667-668. N.B. the date is expressed as 28 (or 29) Nov 1489
↑ 4.04.14.2
Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 227.
↑ 5.05.15.2
Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 206.
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"Henry VII: January 1489," in Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. Chris Given-Wilson, Paul Brand, Seymour Phillips, Mark Ormrod, Geoffrey Martin, Anne Curry and Rosemary Horrox (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), British History Online, accessed January 8, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/parliament-rolls-medieval/january-1489.
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