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The murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, took place on 10 February 1567 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Darnley's lodgings were destroyed by gunpowder; his body and that of his servant were found nearby, apparently having been strangled rather than killed in the explosion.
Sep 4, 2017 · 04 September 2017. |. Henry Stuart Lord Darnley. Henry Stuart, styled as Lord Darnley until 1565, was the son of Matthew Stuart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and his wife, Margaret Douglas. He was the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was the father of James VI of Scotland, who succeeded Elizabeth I of England as James I.
Jul 24, 2020 · 1. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, lay murdered in the orchard at Kirk o’ Field, Edinburgh, wearing only his nightclothes. Moments later, the house from which he fled exploded with the force of two barrels of gunpowder. That event in February 1567 began the fall of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the beginning of the end for the Scottish monarchy.
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who had been brought up in England, was the son of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox and Margaret Douglas, and a grandson of Margaret Tudor. Darnley's mother was keen to advance a dynastic marriage, and sent her son's tutor Arthur Lallart to meet Mary.
HENRY STEWART, LORD DARNLEY. BORN: 1546. MURDERED: 10 FEBRUARY 1567. Through the children of Margaret Tudor 's second marriage, Darnley was heir to the throne of Scotland after Mary Queen of Scots (his cousin), whom he married in 1565. Implicated in the murder of David Rizzio.
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1546 – 10 February 1567), was the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the father of James VI of Scotland and I of England. Through his parents, he had claims to both the Scottish and English thrones, and from his marriage in 1565 he was king consort of Scotland.
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May 18, 2018 · views 3,968,783 updated May 18 2018. Darnley, Henry Stewart, Lord (1545–67). The son of Matthew Stewart, 4th earl of Lennox, and grandson of Margaret Tudor, Darnley's place in the English succession was second only to that of Mary Stuart.
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