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Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545-67) was the second husband of Mary Queen of Scots and the father of James VI and I. He died a violent death on the night of 9th February 1567, after a visit from Mary, when the house where he was staying just outside Edinburgh was blown up by gunpowder. In the morning the bodies of Darnley and a page were found ...
Oct 11, 2017 · One such illustrious, or some say infamous, character was Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. Darnley was born at Temple Newsam in 1545. His mother was Margaret Douglas, niece of Henry VIII. Through her, Darnley had a claim to the English throne. His father was Matthew Stuart, fourth Earl of Lennox, and this also gave Darnley a claim to the Scottish ...
May 1, 2024 · Mary, Queen of Scots, was barely one week old when she succeeded to the throne in 1542. The murder 25 years later of Henry Lord Darnley, her consort and the father of the infant who would become King James I of England and James VI of Scotland, remains one of history's most notorious unsolved crimes. On a Sunday morning in February 1567 ...
Oct 28, 2022 · Lord Darnley’s Sexuality. Henry Stuart, better known to history as Lord Darnley, was born with high hopes in Temple Newsam in 1545 to Margaret Douglas, niece of King Henry VIII, and Mathew Stuart the Scottish earl of Lennox. With Tudor and Stuart blood flowing through his veins, Darnley and his family were full of ambition for his future.
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who had been brought up in England, was the son of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox and Margaret Douglas, and a grandson of Margaret Tudor. Darnley's mother was keen to advance a dynastic marriage, and sent her son's tutor Arthur Lallart to meet Mary.
Henry Stuart Darnley, Lord, 1545–67, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots and father of James I of England (James VI of Scotland). His mother was Margaret Douglas, the daughter of Archibald Douglas, earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England; this made Darnley a candidate for succession to the English throne after ...
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was born on 7 December 1545, at Temple Newsam, Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was the second son child, but the first surviving son of Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox and his wife Lady Margaret Douglas. Through his parents, Henry inherited claims to both the Scottish and English thrones.
