Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley were Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and Margaret, daughter of Henry VII of England and widow of James IV of Scotland. It is the common belief that Darnley was born on 7 December, but this is disputed. He was a first cousin and the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was the father of her son James VI of Scotland, who succeeded Elizabeth I of England as James I. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was born, at Temple Newsam, Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1545. However this date is uncertain as his parents were
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