SCOTLAND, Princess Margaret

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• Name	SCOTLAND, Margaret
  Prefix	Princess
  Birth	25 Dec 1424	Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
  Gender	Female
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  Burial	Aug 1445	Thorp Arch, Yorkshire, England
  Death	16 Aug 1445	Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne, France
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  Person ID	I49827	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	STEWART, King James I ,   b. 25 Jul 1394, Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotlandd. 21 Feb 1437, Blackfriars, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 42 years)
  Mother	BEAUFORD, Queen Joan de ,   b. 27 Dec 1402, Beaufort Castle, Goudet, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France Beaufort Castle, Goudet, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, Franced. 15 Jul 1445, Dunbar Castle, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland (Age 42 years)
  Marriage	2 Feb 1423/2 Feb 1424	Southwark, Surrey, England
  Family ID	F24050	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	VALOIS, Louis XI ,   b. 3 Jul 1423, Bourges, Cher, Centre, France Bourges, Cher, Centre, Franced. 17 Sep 1483, Plessis-Lez-Tour, Indre-Et-Loire, France (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	24 Jun 1436	Tours, Somme, Picardie, France
  Family ID	F24070	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Margaret of Scotland (French: Marguerite d'Écosse) (25 December 1424 – 16 August 1445) was a Princess of Scotland and the Dauphine’ of France. She was the firstborn child of King James I of Scotland and Queen Joan Beaufort. She married the eldest son of the king of France, Louis, 9th Dauphin, at eleven years old. Their marriage was unhappy, and she died childless at age 20, apparently of a fever. She was born in Perth, Scotland to James I of Scotland and Joan Beaufort, a cousin of Henry VI of England. Margaret was the first of six daughters and twin sons born to her parents (her surviving brother, James, would become James II of Scotland at six years old). Margaret was Charles VII of France's diplomatic choice for daughter-in-law. The marriage was forced upon Charles's thirteen-year-old son, Louis, which did not help their relationship. However, royal marriages in the 15th century were always political. There are no direct accounts from Louis or Margaret of their first impressions of each other, and it is mere speculation to say whether or not they actually had negative feelings for each other. Several historians think that Louis had a predetermined attitude to hate his wife. But it is universally agreed that Louis entered the ceremony and the marriage itself dutifully, as evidenced by his formal embrace of Margaret upon their first meeting on 24 June 1436, the day before their wedding. ... She had a strained relationship with her husband, the future king of France, mainly because of Louis' hatred of his father. Charles VII ordered the marriage, and Margaret frequently supported the king against her husband. It is said that she wore a strongly-tied corset because of her fear of pregnancies, ate green apples and drank apple vinegar. Her unhappy marriage furthered her depression, as did the gossip regarding her by supporters of Louis. On 16 August 1445, between ten and eleven at night, she died in Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne, France at the age of 20. On Saturday, 7 August, she and her ladies had joined the court on a short pilgrimage. It was very hot, and when she returned, she undressed in her stone chamber. The next morning she was feverish, the doctor diagnosed the inflammation of the lungs. She died, raving against a Jamet de Tillay, a Breton soldier, in favour of her father-in-law, King Charles (James surprised Margaret at her habitual poetry reading, when there were no candles, only a good fire in the mantelpiece; he stuck a candle into her face, sniggered and afterwards went around, talking about "wanton princesses". Louis was cold to Margaret, and she attributed his coldness to the gossip spread by Jamet. She died, protesting her faithfulness to her husband, and accused Jamet of killing her with his words). Melancholic and distressed by slander against her, she sank into a final languor before dying. Her last words, in response to others' urgings to rouse herself and live, were supposedly Fi de la vie! qu'on ne m'en parle plus ("Fie on life! Speak no more of it to me"). She was buried in the Saint-Laon church in Thouars, in the Deux-Sèvres department of France. Source: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Stewart,_Dauphine_of_France ---------------------------------------