Margaret Tudor
Margaret Tudor
Queen of Scotland · Princess of England
1489 – 1541
Biography
Eldest surviving daughter of Henry VII, married at thirteen to James IV of Scotland in the Treaty of Perpetual Peace — a treaty broken within a decade when her brother Henry VIII's army killed her husband at Flodden in 1513. Her three marriages and political maneuvering during her son James V's minority kept the Stuart claim to England alive. Her great-grandson James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne on Elizabeth I's death, opening the Stuart century.
Events
Elizabeth I died childless on 24 March 1603 with the words "my cousin of Scotland" reportedly her last designation of an heir. Her great-grandnephew James VI of Scotland — descended from Henry VII through his daughter Margaret Tudor — inherited the English and Irish crowns the same day, uniting the three British kingdoms under a single monarch for the first time. Each kept its own parliament, courts, and church.
Also there: Elizabeth I, James VI and I
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