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unusual facts about Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway


Historical novels by Nigel Tranter set between 1286 and 1603

It makes some speculative claims about his allegedly disfunctional marriage with Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway.


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).

Devonshire MS

The Devonshire MS (British Library, MS Add. 17492) is a verse miscellany from the 1530s and early 1540s, compiled by three women who attended the court of Anne Boleyn: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), and Lady Margaret Douglas.

Francis Crawford of Lymond

A number of real historical characters appear in the novel, including Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox and Mary of Guise.

Lord Thomas Howard

He is chiefly known for his affair with Lady Margaret Douglas (1515–1578), the daughter of Henry VIII's sister, Margaret Tudor, for which he was imprisoned in the Tower, where he died on 31 October 1537.

Margaret Douglas

Margaret Douglas plays a significant role in the historical fiction series the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett.

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


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