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  James V of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
James V (April 10, 1512 – December 14, 1542) was king of Scotland (September 9, 1513 – December 14, 1542).
The son of King James IV of Scotland, he was born in April 10, 11 or 15, 1512, at Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, and was still an infant when his father was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field on September 9, 1513.
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, his son by his favourite mistress, went on to play an important part in the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI.
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 JAMES I. OF ARAGON - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES I. OF ARAGON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
JAMES V. (I 5121542), king of Scotland, son of James IV., was born at Linlithgow on the 10th of April 1512, and became king when his father was killed at Flodden in 1513.
Henceforward the minority of James was disturbed by constant quarrels between a faction, generally favorable to England, under Angus, and the partisans of France under Albany; while the queen-mother and the nobles struggled to gain and to regain possession of the kings person.
JAMES I., the Conqueror (12081276), king of Aragon, son of Peter II., king of Aragon, and of Mary of Montpellier, whose mother was Eudoxia Comnena, daughter of the emperor Manuel, was born at Montpellier on the 2nd of February 1208.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Earl of Moray
However, when her husband, James, was killed in battle against the Sovereign in 1455, his title was attained.
Furthermore, Lord Moray holds the title Baron Stuart, of Castle Stuart in the County of Inverness; since it is in the Peerage of Great Britain, it entitled the Earls of Moray to sit in the House of Lords until the passage of the Peerage Act 1963.
Perhaps the most well-known Earl of Moray was James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, the husband of Elizabeth Stewart, 2nd Countess of Moray, who held the Earldom jure uxoris (by right of his wife), as he was the subject of a famous ballad, "The Bonny Earl of Murray" ("Murray" being a variant spelling of "Moray").
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 Mary I of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary I of Scotland (Mary Stuart or Mary Stewart) (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587), better known as Mary, Queen of Scots, was Queen of Scots, monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland, from December 14, 1542 – July 24, 1567; and Queen Consort of France from July 10, 1559 – December 5, 1560.
The six-day-old Mary became Queen of Scots, with James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the next in line for the throne, acting as regent (until 1554, when he was succeeded by the Queen's mother, who continued as regent until her own death in 1560).
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, an adventurer who would become her third husband, was generally believed to be guilty of the assassination, and was brought before a mock trial but acquitted.
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 CalendarHome.com - James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Moray was the illegitimate son of James V of Scotland and Lady Margaret Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 4th Earl of Mar.
After Moray opposed Mary's marriage to Lord Darnley in 1565, he embarked upon the unsuccessful 'Chaseabout Raid', together with the Earl of Argyll, and the Hamiltons.
Moray was assassinated in Linlithgow in January 1570 by Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, a supporter of Mary.
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 James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (1501 creation) - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He was created Earl of Moray in 1501, was young enough to avoid fighting at the disastrous Battle of Flodden Field in 1513.
He went on to have some clashes with his half-brother James V, and was imprisoned for a time.
He should not be confused with two better-known 16th century Earls of Moray who were also called James Stewart: his nephew, who was regent during the minority of James VI, and another, who was The Bonny Earl of Murray of the famous ballad.
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 English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - James I.
James I & VI, the son of that ill matched pair, Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was born at Edinburgh Castle after a difficult and protracted labour on 19th June 1566.
James' eldest son, the handsome and athletic Prince Henry was popular in England, but unfortunately died before his father in 1612 at the age of eighteen.
James drifted into senility over the last year of his life and died at Theobalds of a tertian ague, probably caused by kidney failure or a stroke, on 27th March, 1625 at the age of fifty-nine.
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 Famous Scots - King James VI
The Earl of Moray was murdered in 1570 and his grandfather, the Earl of Lennox, appointed Regent in his place, was carried, dying, into Stirling Castle in 1571.
James escaped at the age of 14 and asserted his own authority (including the execution of the Regent Morton in 1581).
James married Anne of Denmark, younger daughter of Frederick II, in Oslo in 1589.
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 James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray Information
After Moray opposed Mary's marriage to Lord Darnley in 1565, he was declared an outlaw and took refuge in England.
Moray was assassinated in Linlithgow by Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, a supporter of Mary.
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 James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After the return of his half-sister Queen Mary in 1561, he became her chief adviser.
In 1562 he defeated a rebellion by George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, at Corrichie near Aberdeen.
When Mary escaped from Lochleven (May 2, 1568), the Duke of Chatelherault and other Catholic nobles rallied to her standard, but Moray and the Protestant lords gathered their adherents, defeated her forces at the Battle of Langside, near Glasgow (May 13, 1568), and compelled her to flee to England.
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 JAMES IV. - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES IV.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
(1473-1513), king of Scotland, eldest son of James III., was born on the I7th of March 1473.
About the same time James crushed a rebellion in the western isles, into which he had previously led expeditions, and parliament took measures to strengthen the royal authority therein.
Henry made a vain effort to prevent, or to postpone, the outbreak of hostilities; but urged on by his French ally and his queen, James declared for war, in spite of the counsels of some of his advisers, and (it is said) of the warning of an apparition.
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 James IV of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
James IV (March 17, 1473 – September 9, 1513) was king of Scotland from 1488 to 1513.
James was well educated and it was claimed that he was fluent in Scots languageLowland Scots, English languageEnglish, Scottish Gaelic languageScottish Gaelic, Latin, French languageFrench, German languageGerman, Italian languageItalian, Flemish dialectsFlemish, Spanish languageSpanish and Danish languageDanish/.
James granted the Edinburgh College of Surgeons a royal charter in 1506, turned Edinburgh Castle into one of Britain's foremost gun foundries and welcomed the establishment of Scotland's first printing press in 1507.
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 James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
James Stewart was the illegitimate son of James V of Scotland and Lady Margaret Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 4th Earl of Mar. During Mary Queen of Scots' childhood years in France, James became an early convert to Protestantism.
Stewart was among those who plotted a coup attempt against the now heavily pregnant Mary in March 1566, the first step of which was the murder of her Private Secretary, David Rizzio.
When Mary later escaped from Lochleven Castle and attempted to regain power, it was James Stewart who led the forces that defeated her at the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568, leading to her ill-judged flight to, and imprisonment in, England.
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 James IV
James IV, King of Scotland, eldest son of James III, was born on the 17th of March 1473.
He left one legitimate child, his successor James V, but as his gallantries were numerous he had many illegitimate children, among them (by Marion Boyd) Alexander Stewart, archbishop of St. Andrews and chancellor of Scotland, who was killed at Flodden, and (by Janet Kennedy) James Stewart, earl of Moray.
James shared to the full in the superstitions of the age which was quickly passing away.
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 _Mary_Of_Scotland_
Mary is immediately confronted by her half brother, James Stewart, the Earl of Moray, who is leader of the country's ruling noblemen and is questioned about her devotion to Catholicism and her refusal to marry.
The Earl of Boswell, in spite of his own Protestantism, pledges his loyalty to Mary and demands that he be named Scotland's military chief.
As Knox damns Bothwell as the murderer, the earl "kidnaps" Mary and in defiance to the council secretly marries her.
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 The Arms of some Stewart Cadets - 2
James Stewart, Earl of Moray and Regent of Scotland, bastard son of King James V, bore Scotland within a bordure of the Stewart fess tinctures, the bordure compony recognising his bastardy.
John Stewart of Ascog matriculated these arms as a descendant of the Stewarts of Bute.
These arms, matriculated by Sir Archibald Stewart of Castlemilk, a baronet, were borne by a cadet branch, Stewart of Torrence, with a crescent for difference.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Stewarts > Mary, Queen of Scots
His army set fire to the Abbey of Holyroodhouse where James V was buried, burned crops in the Tweed Valley and set ablaze the Border abbeys of Melrose, Jedburgh and Dryburgh.
Her subsequent marriage three months later to the Earl of Bothwell (generally believed to be the principal murderer) brought her inevitable ruin.
She was buried in Peterborough Cathedral, but in 1612 her son James VI and I had her body exhumed and placed in the vault of King Henry VII's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
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During her infancy, near the beginning of her reign, the Battle of the Butts was fought in 1544 on Glasgow's Gallowmuir between the Regent, James Hamilton, Earl of Arran and those opposed to his rule.
The government of the country was left in the hands of her Protestant half-brother James Stewart, Earl of Moray.
Moray had good information about the Queen's activities and was aware of the plan to march to Dumbarton.
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 Phelps Family in America
James Stewart III King of Scotland (10 Jul 1451 - 11 Jun 1488)
James Stewart Steward of Scotland (1243 - 1309)
James "Hearty James" Stewart Earl of Buchan (ABT 1442 - ____)
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 Doune Castle Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
Robert Stewart was also Earl of Menteith and Fife through marriage to Margaret, Countess of Menteith.
Later, the title Earl of Moray came to the occupants of the castle through marriage.
In 1984, the 20th Earl of Moray placed the castle in the care of the nation.
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 Chronology - Elizabeth I
23 January - James Stewart, Earl of Moray, (Mary Queen of Scots' half brother and Regent in Scotland for her son) is assassinated.
James VI takes over the reigns of government in Scotland, the Earl of Morton resigning the Regency.
James VI is captured by the English party while out hunting, and kept in captivity until June 1583
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 102-103, A new description of Moray - Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Under King Robert Bruce, Thomas Randolph, his nephew from his sister, who undertook for his country great labours and the heaviest trials, was well known by the title of Earl of Moray.
His only daughter brought this title to her husband James Stewart of Doune, whose family was of royal blood, viz.
Being about to describe Moray, let me say this most truly as preface: second to none in its healthy climate, in tenderness and goodness of the earth it far exceeds all other of our northern provinces.
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 Mary I of Scotland
Her father died at the age of thirty, and six-day-old Mary became Queen of Scotland, with James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the next in line for the throne, acting as regent (until 1554, when he was succeeded by the Queen's mother, who continued as regent until her own death in 1560).
Following the birth of the heir - the future James VI and I - in June 1566, Mary began a liaison with James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, an adventurer who would become her third husband.
Eighteen years of confinement followed, much of it in the custody of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and his redoubtable wife Bess of Hardwick, whose daughter married Mary's second husband's brother and produced one child, Arbella Stuart.
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 The Barony of Duddingston
The nephew of the 8th Earl succeeded him and was in 1790 raised to the rank of a Marquess.
His grandson, the 2nd Marquess, was in 1868 raised to the rank of a Duke, and then the Barony of Duddingston continued father to son until the present generation where it is shared by the 5th Duke of Abercorn’s brother and sister, Lord Anthony Hamilton and Lady Moyra Campbell.
The Duddingston House in which she lived was replaced with a much larger mansion by the 8th Earl of Abercorn, but it is still possible to imagine the home she loved.
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 James_Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The best-known James Stewart of modern times is the Hollywood movie star of the name, widely known as "Jimmy" Stewart.
An English actor whose real name was James Stewart was told by the Screen Actors Guild to change it in order to avoid confusion with the other actor; he became famous under the name Stewart Granger.
Although the name of this royal family was historically spelled both Stewart and Stuart, the latter spelling is most common in contemporary usage.
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 1562   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
January 6 - Earl of Tyrone ends his first rebellion by surrendering to Queen Elizabeth I of England
September 20 - English forces under John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, land in Le Havre to aid the Huguenots.
November 5 - In Scotland, the rebellion of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly is crushed by James Stewart, Earl of Moray at Corrichie.
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 1570 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
January 23 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war
February 25 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull Regnans in Excelsis
January 23 - James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland (born 1531)
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 Serenery: 888 Castle Stuart, Moray Firth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It was held by the Mackintoshes but given by Mary, Queen of Scots, to James Stewart, Earl of Moray.
The castle was finished by James Stewart, the 3rd Earl, about 1625.
The Mackintoshes had a claim on the castle, but were paid off and the castle restored to the Stewarts.
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