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3 unusual facts about Matthew Stewart


Matthew Stewart

Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516–1571), father of Henry Stewart, King of the Scots

Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox

By August 1565, William Cecil had heard that Darnley's insolence had driven Lennox from the Scottish court.

They took Castlemilk and burnt Annan after a bitter struggle to capture its fortified church.


John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox

Through his son Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox, Stewart was the great-great-great-grandfather of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of his first cousin Mary, Queen of Scots and father of James VI, King of Scotland, who became James I, King of England.


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