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| Name |
James Stewart |
| Suffix |
I King of Scots |
| Birth |
25 Jul 1394 |
Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
21 Feb 1437 |
Monastry of the Friars Preachers, Perthshire, Scotland |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
28 Mar 1935 |
MANTI |
| FamilySearch ID |
LDQL-NRN |
| Burial |
Perth Charterhouse, Perthshire, Scotland |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I2822 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
John Stewart, Robert III, King of Scotland, Earl of Carrick, b. 14 Aug 1337, Rothsay Castle, Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 4 Apr 1406, Rothsay Castle, Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age 68 years) |
| Mother |
Annabella Drummond, b. 1350, Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland d. Oct 1401, Scone Abbey, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 51 years) |
| Marriage |
13 Mar 1367 |
Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Family ID |
F2010 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland, b. Abt 1404, Westminster, Middlesex, England d. 15 Jul 1445, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland (Age 41 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Feb 1424 |
Saint Mary Overy, Southwark, Surrey, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France, b. 25 Dec 1424, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland d. 16 Aug 1445, Châlons, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, République française (Age 20 years) |
| | 2. Isabella Stewart, b. 1426 d. 5 Mar 1499 (Age 73 years) |
| | 3. Mary Stewart, Countess of Buchan, b. Bef 1428 d. 20 Mar 1465 (Age > 37 years) |
| | 4. Joan Stewart, Countess of Morton, b. 1428 d. Aft 16 Oct 1486 (Age > 58 years) |
| | 5. Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, b. 16 Oct 1430, Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland d. 1430, Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland |
| + | 6. James Stewart, II King of Scots, b. 16 Oct 1430, Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland d. 3 Aug 1460, Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland (Age 29 years) |
| | 7. Eleanor Stewart, b. 1433 d. 20 Nov 1484, Innsbruck, Tirol, Österreich (Age 51 years) |
| + | 8. Annabella Stewart, b. Abt 1433, Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 1509, Scotland (Age 76 years) |
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| Family ID |
F2009 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
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| Notes |
- James I, 1394–1437, king of Scotland (1406–37), son and successor of Rob e rt III. King Robert feared for the safety of James because the king's b ro ther, Robert Stuart, 1st duke of Albany, who was virtual ruler of th e rea lm, stood next in line of succession after the young prince. Alban y had a lready been suspected of complicity in the death of James's olde r brother , David Stuart, duke of Rothesay. Accordingly, in 1406 the kin g sent Jame s to France for safety, but the prince was captured on the wa y by the Eng lish and held prisoner until 1424. So, although James techni cally succeed ed his father in 1406, the regent Albany ruled until his ow n death and wa s succeeded by his son, and the king's ransom was arrange d only at the in sistence of Archibald Douglas, 4th earl of Douglas, an d other nobles. Th e king had been well educated by his captors, Henry I V and Henry V of Eng land, who had treated him as a royal guest. Shortl y before his return t o Scotland in 1424, James married Joan Beaufort, da ughter of the earl o f Somerset. The Kingis Quair [the king's book] (rev . ed. by W. W. Skeat , 1911), the story of his captivity and his romanc e with Joan, is usuall y considered to have been written by him. It and o ther poems attributed t o him would establish him as one of the leading p oets in the Chaucerian t radition. James was crowned at Scone and set abo ut governing energeticall y. He asserted his authority over the nobility , ruthlessly exterminatin g members of the Albany family and a number o f other barons and reducin g the Highland clans to order. He also achieve d important financial and j udicial reforms and sought to remodel the Sco ttish Parliament, which he c onvened annually, along English lines. His p lans for including burghers i n the Parliament and improving commerce an d the army were opposed by hi s militantly feudal nobles, and his vindict iveness, cupidity, and quick t emper understandably diminished his popula rity. He was assassinated b y a group of nobles, one of whom, the earl o f Atholl, probably hoped to c laim the throne. However, James was succeed ed by his son, James II.
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