The Royalty |
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This is Robert II (1316 β 1390), he became King of Scots in 1371 β the first monarch of the House of Stewart. Before his accession he held the titles of High Steward of Scotland and earl of Strathearn. He was the son of Walter Stewart, High Steward of Scotland and Marjorie Bruce, daughter of King Robert I and of his first wife Isabella of Mar. Robert Stewart became heir presumptive to his grandfather, Robert I in 1318, but this lapsed in 1324 with the birth of a son, afterwards David II. On his father’s death in 1326, he inherited the title of High Steward and in the same year parliament named him as heir presumptive to Prince David. In 1329 King Robert I died and the 5 year old David succeeded him. On David’s unexpected death in 1371, Robert succeeded to the throne at the age of 55. |
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Robert III (1337 β 1406) and his lovely wife Annabella Drummond. King of Scots (reigned 1390β1406), given name John, was the eldest son of Robert, High Steward of Scotland, afterwards King Robert II and Elizabeth Mure and was legitimated with the marriage of his parents in 1347. |
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Christian I (1426β1481), Danish monarch and union king of Denmark (1448β1481), Norway (1450β1481) and Sweden (1457β1464), under the Kalmar Union. In Sweden his short tenure as monarch was preceded by regents, JΓΆns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and Erik Axelsson Tott and succeeded by regent Kettil Karlsson Vasa. Also Duke of Schleswig and Holstein 1460β81. |
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Dorothea (1430 β 1495)was a Princess of Brandenburg and by marriage became Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. |
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James I (1394 β 1437) was nominal King of Scots from 4 April 1406 until his death, although his effective reign only began in May 1424. He spent the earlier part of his reign as a prisoner in England. On his release he made moves to create a strong centralised monarchy in Scotland, and was assassinated by dissident nobles. He was the son of Robert III and Annabella Drummond. |
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James II (1430 β 1460) was the son of James I of Scotland and of Joan Beaufort (daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and of Margaret Holland). He had an elder twin, Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, who lived long enough to receive a knighthood, but died in infancy. James became the father of James III. James, whose nickname “Fiery face” because of a conspicuous vermilion birthmark on his face, had six sisters, all of whom married into various European royal dynasties. Inheriting the throne at under seven years old, James saw the government in the hands of others for most of his reign. The assassination of his father James I had formed part of an attempt to usurp power by Walter Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, but it failed miserably, and James’s guardians had Atholl and his allies captured and executed in the months after the assassination. |
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James III (1451 β 1488) was King of Scots from 1460 to 1488. James was an unpopular and ineffective monarch owing to an unwillingness to administer justice fairly, a policy of pursuing alliance with the Kingdom of England, and a disastrous relationship with nearly all his extended family. In 1488 when he faced an army raised by the disaffected nobles, and many former councillors at the Battle of Sauchieburn, and was defeated and killed. His heir, the future James IV, took arms against his father. |
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James IV (1473 β 1513) was King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death. He is generally regarded as the most successful of the Stewart monarchs of Scotland, but his reign ended with the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Flodden Field, where he became the last monarch from Great Britain to be killed in battle. |
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Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite; 4 August 1900 β 30 March 2002) was the Queen consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 1936 until his death in 1952. After her husband’s death, she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. She was the last Queen consort of Ireland and Empress consort of India. Born into a family of Scottish nobility (her father inherited the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904), she came to prominence in 1923 when she married Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. As Duchess of York, she β along with her husband and their two daughters Elizabeth and Margaret β embodied traditional ideas of family and public service.[5] She undertook a variety of public engagements, and became known as the “Smiling Duchess” because of her consistent public expression. |
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Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the Queen regnant of sixteen independent sovereign states known informally as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. She holds each crown separately and equally in a shared monarchy, as well as acting as Head of the Commonwealth, and Supreme Governor of the Church of England. As a constitutional monarch, she is politically neutral and by convention her role is largely ceremonial. Her father, George VI, was the last Emperor of India. On his death in 1952, Elizabeth became Head of the Commonwealth, and queen of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, later renamed Sri Lanka. During her reign, which at 57 years is one of the longest for a British monarch, she became queen of 25 other countries within the Commonwealth as they gained independence from Britain. She has been the sovereign of 32 individual nations, half of which later became republics. |
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George Washington (1732 – 1799). Once when I was at school I told my classmates I was related to Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. They laughed at me and said “Next you’ll be telling us George Washington is your cousin.” Well, he is…or was. π |
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Yep, Robert E. Lee (1807 β 1870). |
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 β 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. Whittier was strongly influenced by the Scottish poet, Robert Burns. |
What a wonderful post! As I looked through the first several, my main thought was they don’t look very happy, do they? But as I read their brief biographies, I can understand why not! Love seeing Washington there — his real history is quite wonderful and amazing. Not at all a bad legacy, Anita.
And then of course, to have Whittier in your ancestry is simply — poetically divine!
I enjoyed this one… and am cheering for you to get to Scotland one day. Me too, being a Campbell…
My mom has pictures of more recent ancestors and you know, they never smiled in pictures. I guess they thought portraits were supposed to be serious. She had a huge picture of some grim old codger hanging in the guest bedroom and she moved it to her own room because Melissa was terrified of it! π
I spoke to a friend — a fine arts major and a professional photographer now retired — about this. I wondered if it had to do with bad teeth. He said maybe, but probably not. He said way back when, a person had to sit still for a photo just as for a painted portrait. It took the camera that long to get a portrait-quality shot. Interesting. (They couldn’t keep the smile that long.) That sure explains all the sour pickle looks, doesn’t it?
.-= Barb Hartsook´s last blog ..We Attract to Us That Which We Are =-.
Yeah, that makes sense. I don’t think it would be much to smile at either π