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Name: Margaret DOUGLAS
Sex: F
Birth: 8 Oct 1515 in Harbottle Castle ^b
Death: 9 Mar 1577/8 in Hackney, Middlesex ^d
Burial: Westminster Abbey ^u

Parents:

Father:
Archibald DOUGLAS, Earl Of Angus Birth: Abt 1489 Death: Abt 22 Jan 1556/7 in Tantallon Castle

Mother:

Margaret TUDOR Birth: 28 Nov 1489 in Westminster Palace Death: 18 Oct 1541 in Methven Castle

Family:
Marriage:

Matthew STEWART, Earl Of Lennox on 29 Jun 1544 at St James Palace .^m1
Matthew STEWART, Earl Of Lennox Birth: 21 Sep 1516 in Dumbarton Castle Death: 4 Sep 1571 in Stirling Castle

Children:

Henry STEWART, Lord Darnley Birth: 7 Dec 1545 in Temple Newsam, Yorks Death: 10 Feb 1566/7 in Kirk O Field, Outside Edinburgh
Charles STEWART, Earl Of Lennox Birth: Abt 1556 Death: 1576 in London

Bibliography

Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 07 Hussee-Lincolnshire. London: St Catherine Press, 1929. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP VII [Ap][p0-9].*].
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 12-1, Skelmersdale-Towton. London: St Catherine Press, 1953. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP XII/1 [Ap][p0-9].*].
Paget, Gerald, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1977. Nypl ARF+ 78-835. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Paget HRHCharles p[0-9]*].
Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1[pc][0-9]*].
Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP I p[0-9]*].
Thompson, Neil D, and Hansen, Charles M, Medieval Heritage: The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England, The Genealogist, 2:157-68, 3:25-44, 3:175-94, 4:144-58, 5:64-72, 5:226-39, 6:100-3, 6:148-65, 7-8:137-43, 9:40-4, 10:73-85, 11:63-72, 11:184-93, 12:83-90, 12:250-6, 13:92-9, 13:252-6, 14:81-4, 14:207-10, 15:99-103, 15:220-4, 16:93-8, 16:227-31, 17:61-4, 17:250-5, 18:123-7, 18:228-31, 19:62-8, 19:251-5, 20:85-8, 20:184-90, 21:71-5, 21:250-4, 22:101-6, 22:186-91, 23:73-9, 23:203-8, 24:110-27, 24:239-54, 25:56-73, 25:214-32, 26:77-101, 26:202-26, 27:189, 28:90, 33:300. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Reprinted, with further corrections, as Thompson, Neil D, and Hansen, Charles M, The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton & Gunn, 2012. NYPL ARF 13-5787. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v[0-9]*-[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: [Ref: Burke Peerage cclvii, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p673, Thompson CharlesII v02-164]; Oct 1515 [Ref: SP I p22],
place:: [Ref: CP VII p599, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p673, SP I p22, Thompson CharlesII v02-164],
parents:: [Ref: Burke Peerage cclvii, Burke Peerage p917, CP VII p599, CP XII/1 p72, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p668, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p673, SP I p191, SP I p22, Thompson CharlesII v03-25],
father:: [Ref: Paget HRHCharles p106]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

date:: 18 Oct 1515 [Ref: CP VII p599 (before corr in XIV p432), Paget HRHCharles p106]; 6 Oct 1515 [Ref: CP VII p599 (with corr in XIV p432)]; 7 Oct 1515 [Ref: SP I p191],
note:: Paget and many other sources including CP give 18 Oct in error. That was the date of the communication which announced the birth [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v02-164(13)]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Burke Peerage cclvii, CP VII p599, Paget HRHCharles p106, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p673, SP I p22, Thompson CharlesII v02-164],
place:: [Ref: CP VII p599, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p673, SP I p22, Thompson CharlesII v02-164]

Sources for burial Information

place:: [Ref: CP VII p599, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p673, Thompson CharlesII v02-164]

Sources with Information about marriage to Matthew STEWART, Earl Of Lennox

date:: [Ref: CP VII p599, Paget HRHCharles p106, Thompson CharlesII v02-164],
place:: [Ref: CP VII p599, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p673, Thompson CharlesII v02-164],
child:: [Ref: Burke Peerage cclvii, Burke Peerage p917, CP VII p600, Paget HRHCharles p106, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p673, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p676, SP I p22, Thompson CharlesII v02-164]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

date:: 6 Jul 1544 [Ref: Burke Peerage cclvii, Burke Peerage p917, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p673, SP I p22],
note:: not 6 Jul as often given following Fraser and DNB, that was the date of the English naturalization of the Earl, the error is found in SP and paget v1p217. A letter from the Spanish ambassador to Emperor Charles V, dated 29 Jun 1544, states that the marriage was made that morning, and is cited by CP VII 599(b) [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v02-164(12)]