John Stewart, Duke of Albany

John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany (c. 1484 in Auvergne, France, † July 2, 1536 in Mirfleur, France ) was a member of the Scottish royal family. In the years 1514-1523 he led the regency for the minor King James V..

Life

John was the only son of Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, and his second wife, Anne de La Tour d' Auvergne ( † October 13, 1512 ), daughter of Bertrand VI. Paternal His grandparents were the Scottish King James II and Princess Maria of funds. His father was an ambitious prince and therefore had before his brother, King James III. , Escape twice to France, after he was accused of treason and the collapse of the alliance with England. There he died in 1485 during a tournament in Paris. After the death of his father, the little John inherited his title and grew up under the care of his mother and of the French King Louis XII. in France. His mother married a second time in 1487, Louis de Seyssel, Count of la Chambre.

On July 8, 1505 John Stewart married his cousin ( first degree) Countess Anne de La Tour d' Auvergne ( 1501-1524 ), youngest daughter of Count Jean III. d' Auvergne and his wife Jeanne de Bourbon. After the early death of her older sister, Madeleine de la Tour d' Auvergne in 1519, she inherited the title of Countess of Auvergne and Lauragais. Anne died giving birth to her first child and the title went to her niece, Catherine de Medici, who became Queen of France, above. From a long -standing relationship with Jean Abernethy, was an illegitimate daughter, Eleanor Stewart (1520-1578), out. This was in 1530 with the French nobleman Jean de L' Hopital, comte de Choisy († 1578) married.

In 1514 John Stewart took over the regency for the young King James V., after his mother, the English princess Margaret Tudor, second husband, the Scottish nobleman Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus married. Stewart stood by Jacob and his younger brother Alexander ( † 1515) in third place of the throne. Scotland was a weak, wild and backward country and greatly hindered because of its feudal rule of England; the institutions of government had only rudimentary nature, so that the king was as a spokesman for a lawless and factious aristocracy barely tolerated. 1524 Stewart James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, and Archibald Douglas was dismissed by the Office.

John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, went to France and died on 2 July 1536 Mirfleur.

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