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5 unusual facts about Mary Stewart


Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran

Thomas Holland of Kent

It was through her children by her second husband that the Hamilton Earls of Arran and Stewart Lennoxes derived their claim to the Kingdom of Scotland.

James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran (1475–1529), married firstly in 1490 Elizabeth Home by whom he had two daughters; he divorced Elizabeth in 1504.

Mary Stewart, Countess of Buchan

In 1464, her husband was a Marshal of France, and he was later created Wolfart VI, Lord of Veere and Count of Grandpre.

Mary Stuart

Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch (1903–1984), English Labour politician and educator


Ballymacool Park

The Boyd family crest was inscribed on the silver which was received by Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran on his marriage to Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland, daughter of James II of Scotland.

Ravenglass

The location is featured in The Fort at River's Bend, a book in Jack Whyte's A Dream of Eagles (Camulod Chronicles) series, and is also mentioned briefly in Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy under the name Clannoventa.

Wildfire at Midnight

Wildfire at Midnight is a novel by Mary Stewart, first published in 1956.


see also

Hope Fleming Mackenzie

He was born in Logierait, Perthshire, the son of Alexander Mackenzie and Mary Stewart Fleming.

Hugh Longbourne Callendar

He married Victoria Mary Stewart in 1894, and the couple had three sons--Leslie Hugh Callendar, Guy Stewart Callendar, and Max Victor Callendar--and a daughter, Cecil Callendar.

James Eadie

Eadie was born at Blackford, Perthshire one of the 14 children of William Eadie and his wife Mary Stewart and was baptised on 12 Jan 1827.

Mary Stewart Cutting

Mary Stewart Cutting, Jr., was the great-granddaughter of Ulysses F. Doubleday, who served in the War of 1812 and was elected to both the Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth Congresses.

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

It shows both musicians, their girlfriends Licorice McKechnie and Rose Simpson, friends Roger Marshall and Nicky Walton, several children of their friend Mary Stewart, and Robin's dog Leaf.