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Margaret of Guelders (11 August 1436, Grave, North Brabant – 2 November 1486, Simmern) was a noblewoman from what is now the Netherlands. She was part of the Egmond Family.
Margaret of Flanders (died 1331) was a consort of Alexander, Prince of Scotland and later wife of Reinauld I, Count of Guelders. She was the daughter of Guy, Count of Flanders and his second wife Isabelle of Luxembourg.
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She was the daughter of Arnold, Duke of Guelders, and Catherine of Cleves. She was a great-niece of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
Philip and his wife Isabella of Portugal at first planned to have Mary betrothed to Charles, Count of Maine, but her father could not pay the dowry. Mary stayed on at the Burgundian court, where Isabella frequently paid for her expenses. Mary attended Isabella's daughter-in-law Catherine of France, while she herself was attended upon by ten people....
Mary landed in Scotland in June 1449. Her arrival was described by Mathieu d'Escouchy. She first visited the Isle of May and the shrine of St Adrian. Then she came to Leith and rested at the Convent of St Anthony. Both nobles and the common people came to see her as she made her way to Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh. Mary married King James II of Scot...
After her husband's death, Mary ruled as regent for their son James III of Scotland until her own death three years later. Mary was drawn into the Wars of the Roses taking place in England at this time. She appointed Bishop James Kennedy as her chief advisor; their companionship was described as well-functioning despite the fact that the bishop fav...
James and Mary had seven children together: 1. An unnamed son. (Both born and died on 19 May 1450). 2. James III of Scotland(1451–1488). 3. Mary (May 1453 – May 1488), who married first Thomas Boyd, 1st Earl of Arran, and secondly James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton. She became the mother of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran. 4. Alexander Stewart, Du...
Haeger, Knut (1982), Skotsk krönika (A Scottish Chronicle) (in Swedish), Stockholm, ISBN 91-20-06736-4{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Thomas Finlayson Henderson (1893). "Mary (d.1463)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.Marshall, Rosalind Kay (2003), Scottish Queens, 1034–1714, Tuckwell, ISBN 9781862322714Weir, Alison (1995), Lancaster and York: The War of the Roses, London, ISBN 978-0-09-954017-5{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Mary of Guelders at Find a GraveHe pursued his feud with Margaret, countess of Flanders, over their conflicting territorial claims in Zeeland at the mouth of the Rhine. He renewed the attempts of his dynasty to obtain complete mastery of the Zuider Zee by thrusting eastward into Friesland; he died at the hands of the Frisians….
Although a saint’s miracles were one of the significant elements affecting the development of a cult, far less interest has been shown in the geopolitical importance of the miracles attributed to St Margaret and the relationship between the miracles and the saint’s cult.
Princess Margaret was the mother of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran who later was on the regency council with Marie of Guise for the young Mary Queen of Scots. In May of 1454, Mary was present at the siege of Blackness Castle which the King won and gave to her as a gift.
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