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Lady Arbella Stuart (also Arabella, or Stewart; 1575 – 25 September 1615) was an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Queen Elizabeth I of England. During the reign of King James VI and I (her first cousin), she married William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, another claimant to the English throne, in secret. King ...
- 25 September 1615 (aged 39–40), Tower of London, England
- Elizabeth Cavendish
Apr 10, 2024 · House of Stuart. Arabella Stuart (born 1575—died Sept. 25, 1615, London, Eng.) was an English noblewoman whose status as a claimant to the throne of her first cousin King James I (James VI of Scotland) led to her tragic death. The daughter of James’s uncle Charles Stewart, Earl of Lennox, and great-granddaughter of King Henry VIII’s ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 19, 2019 · 19 Jun 2019. In a race for the crown which lasted for most of the second half of the 16th century, likely winners were trained and backed. One such front-runner was Arbella Stuart, the ill fated daughter of Elizabeth Cavendish and Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox, the great-grandson of King Henry VII. Being of royal blood Arbella was considered ...
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Arbella (Arabella) Stuart. Lady Arbella Stuart, first cousin to James VI of Scotland and I of England, lies buried in a vault beneath the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. In the 19th century a small grey stone was put in between the tombs of Mary Queen of Scots and Arbella's grandmother Margaret, Countess of Lennox ...
Born in October 1575 in London, England; died on September 25, 1615, in the Tower of London; interred on September 28, 1615, in Westminster Abbey, London; daughter of Charles Stuart (1555–1576), 5th earl of Lennox, and Elizabeth Cavendish (d. 1582); married William Seymour (1587–1660), 2nd duke of Somerset (r. 1660–1660), on June 22, 1610; no ch...
Sep 18, 2022 · Arbella Stuart, the one and only offspring of the carefully arranged union, was born in 1575. She was Queen Elizabeth I’s third cousin. Arbella’s claim was passed over by parliament in favor of that of her cousin, James VI of Scotland, simply because he came with more perks.
BORN: 1575. DIED: 1615. Lady Arabella Stuart. Scottish National Portrait Gallery. As a descendant of Henry VIII 's older sister Margaret, Queen of Scotland (from her second marriage), Arbella was a claimant to the throne.
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