Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Stewart, Knt., 1st Earl of Orkney and Lord of Zetland (Shetland) (1533-4 February 1593) was a recognized illegitimate son of James V, King of Scotland, and his mistress Eupheme Elphinstone. In 1539 he was made Abbot of Holyrood Abbey, and Commendator of Charlieu Abbey in France by 1557. He was knighted as Sir Robert Stewart of Strathdon on 15 May 1565, as part of marriage celebrations of his half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. In 1581 he was named, by James VI, the 1st Earl in a second creation of the Earldom of Orkney. The new earldom replaced a short-lived Dukedom of Orkney, which had been awarded in 1567 by Mary, Queen of Scots, to her notorious third husband James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell.