James STUART, I KING
Birth:
10 Dec 1394
Dunfermline Palace, Fifeshire, Scotland
Death:
21 Feb 1436/37
Dumferline, Fifeshire, Scotland
Marriage:
2 Feb 1423/24
St Mary, Overy, Southwark, Surrey, England
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Mother:
Notes:
1 NAME James /Stewart/
"After his capture, James I was held prisoner by Henry IV of England who,however, saw that he received an education appropriate to his royalbirth.
On the death of his father in 1406, he was the first of a series ofScottish kings who inherited the throne as minors, throughout thefifteenth century.
The Scottish Parliament declared James to be king, and his uncle, Robert,Duke of Albany was appointed Governor, to rule on his behalf. Albany madeno attempt to obtain James' release, and by the time he was 18, James wasenergetic, accomplished and impatient to return to his own country.
One day in 1423, looking from his window, he saw a beautiful young womanstrolling in the gardens beneath, and fell in love with her. She was LadyJoan Beaufort, a close relative of the English king, Henry VI.
It was probably through Joan Beaufort's influence that the Treaty ofLondon was agreed in December 1423, releasing James for a ransom of£40,000. The couple were married the following February and travellednorth, to be crowned at Scone.
A cultivated, intelligent monarch who wrote poetry (he wrote the poem"The King's Quair"), loved music and was a fine athlete, James was alsodetermined to restore law and order in his kingdom - he founded what wasto become the Court of Session.
In so doing, his energy and his ruthlessness antagonised many of hisnobles who had taken advantage of his absence to build up their ownpower.
The king was particularly determined to curb his rivals descended fromRobert II; he arrested some and executed others (including the new Dukeof Albany), and confiscated estates.
The result was that on 20 February 1437, at about midnight, he wasassassinated and his queen badly injured in the Dominican Friary in Perthby his own uncle, Walter, Earl of Atholl (a son of Robert II's secondmarriage) and a group of resentful fellow conspirators.
James was buried nearby in the Carthusian monastery which he had founded."
-- Royal Household
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Joan DE BEAUFORT, QUEEN
Birth:
Westminster, Middlesex, England
Death:
15 Jul 1445
Dunbar Castle, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
Father:
Notes:
1 NAME Joan /Beaufort/
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Children
Marriage
1
Margaret STEWART
Birth:
Dec 1424
Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
Death:
16 Aug 1445
Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne, France
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Joan STEWART, PRINCESS
Birth:
1428
Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
Death:
Aft 22 Jun 1493
Scotland
Marr:
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3
Birth:
16 Oct 1430
Holyrod Palace, Edinburg, Scotland
Death:
3 Aug 1460
Roxburgh Castle, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Notes:
1 NAME James /Stuart/ II
"Born at Holyrood on 16 October 1430, James II was only six years oldwhen his father was murdered at Perth.
James II was crowned in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh in 1437, the first kingnot to be enthroned at Scone since Kenneth MacAlpin (843-58). James'minority was dominated by the struggles of rival families for power inthe realm and control of the king.
Known as 'James of the Fiery Face' because of a birthmark, he began torule for himself when he was 18, soon after his marriage in July 1449 toMary of Gueldres, a devout and cultivated Burgundian lady.
Throughout most of his reign, the powerful Douglas family posed a threatto his throne. When he was ten, his advisers had the young 6th Earl ofDouglas and his brother murdered at 'The Black Dinner' in 1440 atEdinburgh Castle.
In 1452 James himself stabbed the 8th Earl to death during a violentquarrel in Stirling Castle, and later defeated the Douglases atArkinholm. Three years later, the 9th Earl and his relatives wereforfeited for treason and in 1458 his Parliament congratulated James onsuppressing dangerous law-breakers.
The threat from his overmighty subjects finally removed, in August 1460James felt secure enough to take advantage of English divisions caused bythe Wars of Roses and besiege Roxburgh Castle (held by the English formore than a century).
Disaster followed, for as he stood next to one of his cannon it exploded,killing him instantly at the age of 29. He was buried in the Abbey ofHolyrood, Edinburgh."
-- Royal Household
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5
Birth:
Balveny, Fifeshire, Scotland
Death:
15 Sep 1512
Laighwood, Perthshire, Scotland
Notes:
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James Stuart, I King - Joan de Beaufort, Queen
James Stuart, I King
was born at Dunfermline Palace, Fifeshire, Scotland 10 Dec 1394.
His parents were Robert John Stewart, III King and Annabella Drummond.
He married Joan de Beaufort, Queen 2 Feb 1423/24 at St Mary, Overy, Southwark, Surrey, England .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Margaret Stewart
born Dec 1424.
Joan Stewart, Princess
born 1428.
James Stewart, II King
born 16 Oct 1430.
Annabella Stewart, Princess
born Abt 1432.
John Stewart
James Stuart, I King died 21 Feb 1436/37 at Dumferline, Fifeshire, Scotland .
Joan de Beaufort, Queen died 15 Jul 1445 at Dunbar Castle, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland .