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    Henry Stuart

    Birth: unknown

    Death: 2-10

    Alternate Surname: Stewart

Biography

Mentioned in 18330714WHS_FMS, husband to Mary Queen of Scots.
king consort of Scotland from 1565 until his murder at Kirk o' Field in 1567. Many contemporary narratives describing his life and death refer to him as Lord Darnley, his title as heir apparent to the Earldom of Lennox, and it is by this appellation that he is now generally known.

He was the second but eldest surviving son of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and his wife, Lady Margaret Douglas. Darnley's maternal grandparents were Archibald Douglas, sixth Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England, and widow of James IV of Scotland. It is the common belief that Darnley was born on 7 December, but this is disputed. He was a first cousin and the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was the father of her son James VI of Scotland, who succeeded Elizabeth I of England as James I

Letter References

Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, July 10, 1859

Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, June 27, 1833

Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, July 14, 1833

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Biography: 
Mentioned in 18330714WHS_FMS, husband to Mary Queen of Scots. king consort of Scotland from 1565 until his murder at Kirk o' Field in 1567. Many contemporary narratives describing his life and death refer to him as Lord Darnley, his title as heir apparent to the Earldom of Lennox, and it is by this appellation that he is now generally known. He was the second but eldest surviving son of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and his wife, Lady Margaret Douglas. Darnley's maternal grandparents were Archibald Douglas, sixth Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England, and widow of James IV of Scotland. It is the common belief that Darnley was born on 7 December, but this is disputed. He was a first cousin and the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was the father of her son James VI of Scotland, who succeeded Elizabeth I of England as James I
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Stuart,_Lord_Darnley
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http://search.ancestrylibrary.com.ezp.lib.rochester.edu/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Henry&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Stuart&gsln_x=0&MSAV=0&msbdy=1565&catbucket=rstp&uidh=if4&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=14141030&dbid=9289&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1
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Ancestry.com. Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: GenealogieOnline. Coret Genealogie. http://www.genealogieonline.nl.ezp.lib.rochester.edu/en/: accessed 31 August 2015.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Stuart,_Lord_Darnley