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unusual facts about Elizabeth Stuart, Countess of Lennox



Clan Lennox

Lennox District tartan: The Lennox District tartan was reproduced from two known copies of a lost portrait dating from the sixteenth century, which was claimed to be of the Countess of Lennox (mother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley who married Mary, Queen of Scots).

Elizabeth Stuart, 2nd Countess of Moray

Lady Margaret Stuart (1591 – 4 August 1639), married firstly as his second wife Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, by whom she had issue; and secondly William Monson, Viscount Monson

Margaret Douglas

In 1574 she again aroused Elizabeth's anger by marrying her younger son, Charles, to Elizabeth Cavendish, the stepdaughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

Margaret Howard, Countess of Nottingham

Margaret Stuart (or Stewart) (c. 1591 – 4 August 1639) was the daughter of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, and Elizabeth Stuart, 2nd Countess of Moray.


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