Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and his wish that "every haire in my heade for to be a wourthy souldiour". The Lennox Crisis (1558–1563) was a political dilemma in England that arose from the dynastic ambition of the Lennoxes: Matthew Stewart, the 4th Earl of Lennox, was third in line to the Scottish throne, and his wife Margaret Douglas, the Countess of Lennox, was a niece of Henry VIII (Henry's sister Margaret Tudor's daughter) and granddaughter of Henry VII, making her second in line to the English throne after Mary Queen of Scots, and her son Darnley after her, should Elizabeth not have been able
Alan Stewart of Darnley issue: After Darnley's murder, his widow Catherine married Herbert Maxwell, 1st Lord Maxwell. Balfour Paul, Sir James, "Scots Peerage", IX vols. Edinburgh 1904. Alan Stewart of Darnley Sir Alan Stewart of Darnley (after 1406 – 1439) was a Scottish nobleman, of the Stewart of Darnley family, involved in the Hundred Years War. The son of John Stewart of Darnley and Elizabeth, daughter of Donnchadh, Earl of Lennox, Darnley accompanied his father and brothers to fight in France. Following his father's death at the Battle of the Herrings in 1429 during the Siege of Orléans, Darnley inherited his father's titles of