Annabella [née Annabella Drummond] (d. 1401), queen of Scots, consort of Robert III, was the daughter of Sir John Drummond (d. in or before 1367). Her mother was possibly Mary, eldest daughter and heir of William Montefichet, lord of Auchterarder, Cargill...
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Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark] (1574–1619), queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, consort of James VI and I, was born on 12 December 1574 at Skanderborg Castle in Jutland, Denmark. She was the second daughter of Frederick II (1534–1588), king of Denmark and Norway...
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Catherine [Catherine of Braganza, Catarina Henriqueta de Bragança] (1638–1705), queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, consort of Charles II, was born on 25 November 1638 ns at the Vila Viçosa in Alentejo, Portugal, the third but only surviving daughter of the five children of ...
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Cromwell [née Bourchier], Elizabeth (1598–1665), lady protectress of England, Scotland, and Ireland, consort of Oliver Cromwell, was one of twelve children of Sir James Bourchier (c.1574–1635), merchant and furrier, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Thomas Crane of Newton Tony, Wiltshire...
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G. W. S. Barrow
Elizabeth [née Elizabeth de Burgh] (d. 1327), queen of Scots, consort of Robert I, was the second daughter and one of ten children of Richard de Burgh, earl of Ulster (d. 1326), and his wife, Margaret (d. 1304), who may also have been a ...
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Ermengarde [Ermengarde de Beaumont] (d. 1233), queen of Scots, consort of William I, was a daughter of Richard, vicomte de Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, who was the son of Constance, an illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England. She thus had (somewhat thin) royal blood to commend her when ...
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S. I. Boardman
Euphemia [née Euphemia Ross] (b. in or before 1329
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Caroline M. Hibbard
Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France] (1609–1669), queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, consort of Charles I, was born at the Louvre Palace in Paris on 16/26 November 1609, the fifth surviving child and youngest daughter of Henri IV, king of France and Navarre...
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Keith Stringer
Joan (1210–1238), queen of Scots, consort of Alexander II, was the eldest daughter and third of five children of John (1167–1216), king of England, and his second wife, Isabella of Angoulême (c. 1188–1246); her elder brothers were King Henry III and Richard, earl of Cornwall...
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Joan [Joan of the Tower] (1321–1362), queen of Scots, consort of David II, was born in the Tower of London on 5 July 1321. She was the second daughter of Edward II (1284–1327), king of England, and Isabella (1295–1358), daughter of Philippe IV, ...
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Joan [née Joan Beaufort] (d. 1445), queen of Scots, consort of James I 1394–1437, was the daughter of John Beaufort, marquess of Dorset and of Somerset (d. 1410), son of John of Gaunt, and Margaret, daughter of Thomas Holland, earl of Kent...
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Rosalind K. Marshall
Madeleine [Madeleine de Valois] (1520–1537), queen of Scots, consort of James V, was the second daughter and fourth child of François I of France (1494–1547) and his first wife, Claude (1499–1524), daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany. She was born on 10 August 1520, at ...
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Bruce Webster
Margaret [née Margaret Drummond] (d. in or after 1374), queen of Scots, consort of David II, was the daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond. She was married at an unknown date to Sir John Logie of that ilk (d. 1363?), almost certainly the grandson of the ...
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Margaret [St Margaret] (d. 1093), queen of Scots, consort of Malcolm III, was the eldest child of Edward Ætheling (d. 1057) and his wife, Agatha, who was a kinswoman of the emperor Heinrich II (r. 1002–24). Margaret's father was one of the two sons of ...
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Margaret [Margaret of England] (1240–1275), queen of Scots, consort of Alexander III, was the eldest daughter and second child of Henry III of England (1207–1272) and his queen, Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223–1291). She was born at Windsor in October 1240, about the 5th, although the date of her birth is given erroneously by several chroniclers. The early years of her life were passed there along with her brother ...
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Norman Macdougall
Margaret [Margaret of Denmark] (1456/7