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Antoinette de Bourbon. Mary of Guise (French: Marie de Guise; 22 November 1515 – 11 June 1560), also called Mary of Lorraine, was Queen of Scotland from 1538 until 1542, as the second wife of King James V. She was a French noblewoman of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine and one of the most powerful families in France.
James' first wife, Madeleine de Valois, died only months after their marriage. James then married Mary of Guise, daughter of the powerful Duke de Guise. After James’ death Mary ruled Scotland on ...
- Early Life
- Queen Consort: James V of Scotland
- The Regency: War with England
- Deposed as Regent
- Death
Mary of Guise was born on 22 November 1515 in Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine, France. She was born into the powerful and most prominent Catholic family in France. Mary was the eldest daughter of her father Claude, Duke of Guise, and her mother Antoinette de Bourbon. Mary is described as having a striking figure with good looks, an unusual height, and red-gol...
James V of Scotland had married Madeleine de Valois (1521-1537), daughter of Francis I of France, on 1 January 1537 CE in Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, but, always having had frail health, Madeleine died of consumption six months later. On 12 June 1538, James married Mary of Guise, presumably, the two had met while James had stayed in France for s...
Henry VIII, like his predecessors, was ambitious to control Scotland. The English king’s initial plan was to use diplomacy and have his son Edward, the Prince of Wales, marry the young queen Mary. Mary of Guise was not against the idea, but the Scottish lords were not keen to forgo any of their independence, and the Scottish Parliament rejected the...
Meanwhile, Elizabeth I of Englandhad begun her reign in 1558 (she would rule until 1603). Protestant Elizabeth even sent aid to the Protestant Lords of the Congregation in Scotland to destabilise the throne, which then led to Mary of Guise being deposed as regent, or 'suspended' as Mary’s enemies preferred to put it in October 1559. Mary’s downfall...
Forces loyal to Mary of Guise had managed to withstand the English assault at Leith with success, but their cause there and across Scotland was dealt, literally, a fatal blow. Mary died of illness - likely dropsy (oedema) - at Edinburgh Castle on 11 June 1560; she was buried in Rheims in her French homeland in March 1561. With her death and the los...
- Mark Cartwright
Jul 26, 2024 · Mary would then set sail for Scotland to marry King James in June 1538 and would be crowned as his consort 2 years later on 22 February 1540 at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh. Although the marriage would be a passionless one, it did produce two sons who would die in infancy and a daughter who would be born at Linlithgow Palace on 8 December 1542.
The proxy wedding of James V and Mary of Guise was held on 9 May 1538 at the Château de Châteaudun. Some 2,000 Scottish lords and barons came from Scotland aboard a fleet of ships under Lord Maxwell to attend, with Lord Maxwell standing as proxy for James V. Mary departed from Le Havre on 10 June 1538, and landed in Scotland 6 days later at Crail in Fife .
May 9, 2023 · On this day in Tudor history, 9th May 1538, King James V of Scotland married Marie de Guise, or Mary of Guise, by proxy. James V was the son of King James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of King Henry VII, and Marie was the daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise, and Antoinette of Bourbon. They'd both been married before. Marie had been married to Louis II of Orléans, Duke of ...
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Feb 21, 2022 · From a convent to the royal court. Bar-de-Luc, the birthplace of Mary of Guise (Image: Ketounette, via Wikimedia Commons) Mary of Guise was born in November 1515 in the castle of Bar-le-Duc. One of 12 siblings, she was the eldest daughter of Claude, the first Duke of Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon. At some point during her childhood, Mary was ...
