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  1. Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran (13 May 1453 – May 1488) [citation needed] was the elder daughter of King James II of Scotland and Mary of Guelders. King James III of Scotland was her eldest brother. She married twice: firstly, to Thomas Boyd, 1st Earl of Arran; secondly, to James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton.

  2. May 7, 2024 · Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland was born before 16 May 1452. She was the daughter of James II Stewart, King of Scotland and Marie von Geldern. She married, firstly, Thomas Boyd, 1st Earl of Arran, son of Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock and Mariot Maxwell, before 26 April 1467.

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    Mary Stewart was the eldest daughter of James II of Scotland and Marie of Guelders, his queen-consort. The exact date of her birth is unknown but thought to have been shortly before May 1452, which is the first time she is mentioned in a payment of her expenses at Falkland in May, 1452 on a journey from Stirling to St Andrews .There are frequent references to her after this time. Mary had four brothers: James III of Scotland; Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, Earl of March, and Lord of Annan...

    Marriage to Thomas Boyd

    Robert Boyd, who had in 1466 kidnapped the young king and taken him to Edinburgh Castle where he would be under Boyd's control, later himself became the guardian of James III and his younger brothers and assumed the positon of Lord Chamberlain of Scotland. In April 1467 Boyd arranged a marriage between Mary Stewart and his own eldest son, Thomas Boyd, thereby creating a stronger alliance between his family and the crown.On 26 April of that same year, Thomas Boyd was created Earl of Arran. Whe...

    Marriage to James Hamilton

    Mary's second marriage, arranged by her brother the king, was to James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, who was 28 years older than she and one of her brother's most loyal supporters. There were several charters granted to them and their heirs male dated 12 July 1474, which contained special provisions for any daughters born of their marriage. A papal dispensation for their marriage was granted retroactively on 25 April 1476.This dispensation was necessary because his (former) wife Euphame and Ma...

    Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 1,...
    Burnett, George (ed). Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum (Exchequer Rolls of Scotland). Edinburgh: General Register House (1883), vol. 6 (1455-1460), preface, pp.cxxvi-cxxvii, footnote 3.
    Burnett, George (ed). Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum (Exchequer Rolls of Scotland). Edinburgh: General Register House (1882), vol. 5 (1437-1454), p. 537.
    Paul, Sir James Balfour. The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1908), vol. 5, p. 148.

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  3. Mary Stewart was born in 1453 and married Thomas Boyd in 1467. She was the Countess of Arran and her husband was falsely accused of treason by her brother, King James II.

  4. When Mary Stewart Countess of Arran was born on 13 May 1453, in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, her father, King James II of Scotland, was 22 and her mother, Mary of Guelders Queen Consort of Scotland, was 22. She married Sir Thomas Boyd 1st Earl of Arran on 26 April 1467, in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

  5. When Lady Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran was born on 13 May 1453, in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James II, King of Scots, was 22 and her mother, Queen Mary Of Guelders, was 21. She had at least 1 daughter.

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  7. Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran (13 May 1453 – May 1488) [1] was the elder daughter of James II of Scotland and Mary of Guelders. Her brother was James III of Scotland. She married twice; firstly to Thomas Boyd, 1st Earl of Arran; secondly to James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton.

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