Stewart Monson

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Birth Name
William Monson VSC Castlemaine
Birth Name
William Monson
Birth Name
Moverin Lord
Birth Name
Lord William Monson
Title of Nobility
VSC Castlemaine
Lord

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William married Margaret Stewart, Countess of Nottingham, Countess of Traquair about 1625 in England. Margaret (daughter of James Stewart, VI, King of Scotland and England, Second Earl of Moray, Second Lord Doune and Elizabeth Stewart, Second Countess of Moray) was born about 1582 in Castle Stuart, Pettycur, Fife, Scotland; died on 4 Aug 1639 in Covent Garden, London, Middlesex, England; was buried on 19 Aug 1639 in Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: James Stewart
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Name
James VI Stewart/Stuart King of Scotland and England
Sex
Male
Birth
1562
Dyke-Darnaway-Elgin, Moray, Scotland
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Death
7 February 1592
Donibristle, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
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St. Giles-Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
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Nickname
The Bonnie Earl
Birth Name
James Stewart 2nd Earl of Moray, 2nd Lord Doune
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Lord Doune
Title of Nobility
Earl
Moray II
Lord
Doune, Mashonaland East, Southern Rhodesia
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7 February 1596
Donibristle, Fife, Scotland

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Murdered by George Gordon, Earl of Huntly

James married Elizabeth Stewart, Second Countess of Moray. Elizabeth (daughter of James Stewart, Regent of Scotland First Earl of Moray and Anna Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray) was born about Aug 1565 in Edinburgh Parish, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Scotland; died on 18 Nov 1591 in Morayshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Countess of Moray

Doune Castle, standing on a grassy eminance commanding the village and the river, is the setting for one of the most haunting and dramatic ballads in the repertoire, The Bonnie Earl 0' Moray'. The castle was built in the late fourteenth century by the Duke of Albany, later passed to the Crown and thence to the Earls of Moray, who own it still. The second Earl was murdered at Donibristle in Fife in 1592. If the words of the ballad about the event are to be believed, the king may have had a hand in it, or if he didn't was not much upset. He went hunting on the day of the funeral. The good-looking Earl was a lightweight and hardly deserved to be immortalised in such poignant words and music.
?i?Ye Hielands and ye Lawlands,
0 where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl o' Moray,
And laid him on the green.
He was a braw gallant,
And he rode at the ring;
And the bonnie Earl o' Moray,
He might have been a King.
0, lang will his ladye look
Frae the Castle Doune
Ere she see the Earl o' Moray
Come soundin?sup?'?/sup? through the toun.?sup?'?/i??/sup?
And if you stand on the ramparts, you'll realise that she could have seen him coming from a very long way off.
[ "Reflections on Scotland" by Ian Wallace pub.1988 ]


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Elizabeth Stewart 2d Countess of Moray
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Female
Birth
1567
Arran, Bute, Scotland
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18 November 1591
Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom

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First recorded person assassinated by a firearm.

James married Margaret Campbell. Margaret was born about 1544 in Perth Parish, Perthshire, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Born c. 1531 and murdered 1570. Moray, born James Stewart, was the illegitimate half-brother of Mary Queen of Scots. Moray was a ruthless, and clever politician who always seemed to be in the right place at the right time. Ambitious and power-hungry, he was the most powerful nobleman of his age. He played a major part in driving Mary from Scotland. [2, 3]**

James Stuart/Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray lived from 1531 to 23 January 1570. A half brother of Mary Queen of Scots, he was a convert to Protestantism who variously supported and opposed her, before eventually, while acting as Regent to the infant James VI, defeating her in battle and forcing her into exile and imprisonment in England.

James Stewart was the illegitimate son of James V of Scotland and Lady Margaret Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 4th Earl of Mar. During Mary Queen of Scots' childhood years in France, James became an early convert to Protestantism. He then joined with the Protestant lords opposing the efforts of Mary's mother, Marie de Guise, who as Regent of Scotland sought to preserve the Catholic status quo, using French troops against both the English and internal Scottish dissent.

When Mary Queen of Scots returned from France in 1561, James Stewart became her chief adviser, and the following year she made him the 1st Earl of Moray. In 1562 he led Mary's forces to put down a rebellion by the 4th Earl of Huntly: and in the same year married Agnes Keith, daughter of William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal.

In 1565 James Stewart strongly opposed the marriage between Mary and Lord Darnley. When the marriage went ahead anyway, Stewart raised a rebellion against Mary in Ayrshire. On 26 August 1565, Mary led an army out of Edinburgh to put down the rebellion, pursuing the rebels over much of southern Scotland in what became known as the Chaseabout Raid. James Stewart escaped and sought sanctuary in Queen Elizabeth I's England, a country with which he had been trying to negotiate closer links.

Stewart was among those who plotted a coup attempt against the now heavily pregnant Mary in March 1566, the first step of which was the murder of her Private Secretary, David Rizzio. The coup was defeated after Mary turned Lord Darnley against the other consiprators, and he helped her to safety at Dunbar Castle under the protection of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell.

Mary's ruthless suppression of the conspirators against her overlooked Stewart, partly because he was in England at the time, and partly because his involvement remained unknown to her. As a result he was able to returning to Scotland in 1566, being pardoned by Mary for his rebellion following her marriage to Darnley. By luck or design, he happened to be in France when Lord Darnley was murdered, and during the period of uproar that followed Mary's marriage to the Earl of Bothwell culminating in Mary's forced abdication in favour of her infant son James VI.

James Stewart returned to Scotland to be appointed Regent to the young James VI. When Mary later escaped from Lochleven Castle and attempted to regain power, it was James Stewart who led the forces that defeated her at the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568, leading to her ill-judged flight to, and imprisonment in, England.

James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray ruled Scotland as a very effective Regent for James VI until 23 January 1570. During a visit to Linlithgow he was assassinated by James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, a supporter of Mary. In death he wrote one last small footnote in history: his was the first ever recorded assassination by a firearm anywhere in the world. James Stewart was buried at St Giles Kirk in Edinburgh.

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James married Anna Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray. Anna (daughter of William Keith, Fourth Earl of Marischal and Margaret Keith) was born on 14 Jul 1530 in Midlothian, Scotland; died on 16 Jul 1588 in Midlothian, Scotland; was buried on 25 Aug 1588 in Saint Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Agnes Keith,Countess of Moray, Regent of Scotland and at one time most powerful woman in Scotland, daughter of William Keith 3rd or 4th "Earl of Marishal" of Dunnottar Castle. She married James Stuart 1st Earl of Moray regent of Scotland 1567-1570, illegitimate son of King James and half brother of Mary Queen of Scots.

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