Illegitimate Children of Scottish Monarchs - Lady Janet Stewart, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Alexander Stewart, Robert Stewart (Paperback)

Chapters: Lady Janet Stewart, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Alexander Stewart, Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, Lady Jean Stewart, Robert Bruce. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Janet Stewart, Lady Fleming (or Jane, Jenny, Joan, Jean, or Johanna; c.1505 c.1563) was an illegitimate daughter of James IV of Scotland who served as governess to her niece, Mary, Queen of Scots, and was briefly a mistress to Henry II of France. Her daughter, Mary Fleming, was one of the Queen's Four Maries. James IV is known to have fathered several other royal bastards; Lady Janet Stewart was a half-sister to, among others, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray and Alexander Stewart, Lord Chancellor of Scotland. Another half-brother was James V, her father's only legitimate child to reach adulthood. The identity of her mother is a matter of dispute. She was either Agnes or Isobel Stewart of Buchan, who were both daughters of "Hearty James" Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan, and both mistresses to James IV. Isobel (or Isabella) was born legitimately, while Agnes, the more likely candidate, was her illegitimate half-sister. Agnes was a daughter of the Earl of Buchan's mistress, Margaret, Mrs. Murray, and became the Countess of Bothwell after marrying Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell. Her son from this marriage, Patrick Hepburn, would have been Lady Janet's half-brother. Both Agnes and Isobel Stewart were distant cousins (specifically, "half-first-cousins-once-removed") of James IV by a common ancestor, Joan Beaufort, an English noblewoman with Plantagenet bloodlines. Lady Janet married Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming, even though they were related within a forbidden degree of affinity. By Lord Fleming she had six children: Lord Fleming was killed at the Battle of Pinki...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=487007