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Castle before she would surrender her sons. After being obliged to capitulate. Margaret returned to Edinburgh, and being no longer responsible for the custody of the king she fled to England in September, where a See also:

month later she bore to Angus a daughter, Margaret, who afterwards became countess of See also:

Lennox, See also:

MOTHER

mother of See also:

Lord See also:

DARNLEY, HENRY STEWART

Darnley and grandmother of James I. of England. In the summer of 1516 Margaret went to her brother's See also:

court in See also:

LONDON

London, while Angus, much to his wife's displeasure, returned to Scotland, where he made his peace with Albany and was restored to his estates. The rivalry between the See also:

French and English factions in Scotland was complicated by private feuds of the Hamiltons and Douglases, the respective heads of which houses, Arran and Angus, were contending for the supreme See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power in the See also:

ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of Albany in France, where at the instance of Henry VIII. he was detained by See also:

Francis I. Margaret, See also:

QUARREL

quarrel-See also:

LING, PER HENRIK (1776-1839)

ling with her See also:

HUSBAND

husband over See also:

MONEY

money matters, sided at first with Arran and began to agitate for a See also:

DIVORCE

divorce from Angus. In this she was probably aided by Albany, who had been in See also:

Rome, and who found an unexpected ally in the queen-mother, Margaret being temporarily alienated from the English party by her brother Henry's opposition to her divorce. When Albany returned to Scotland in 1521 his association with Margaret gave rise to the See also:

ACCUSATION (Lat. accusatio, accusare, to challenge to a causa, a suit or trial at law)

accusation that it was with the intention of marrying her himself that he favoured her divorce from Angus, and it was even suggested that she was Albany's See also:

MISTRESS

mistress.. As Albany was strongly supported by the Scottish parliament, Angus found it necessary to withdraw to France till 1524. During these years there was See also:

CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant warfare between the English and the Scots on the border, but in May 1524 Albany was obliged to retire to France. Henry VIII. continually aimed at securing the See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person of his See also:

NEPHEW

nephew, the king of Scots; while Margaret veered from faction to faction without any settled policy, unless it were the " erection " of her son, i.e. his See also:

PROCLAMATION (Lat. proclamare, to make public by announcement)

proclamation as a reigning See also:

SOVEREIGN

sovereign, which she successfully brought about in July 1524. The queen-mother had at this time fallen in love with Henry Stewart, second son of Lord Avondale, whom she married immediately after obtaining her divorce from Angus in 1527.

Margaret and her new husband, who was created Lord See also:

METHVEN

Methven, now became for a time the ruling See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence in the counsels of James V. But when her See also:

DESIRE

desire to arrange a See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting between James and Henry VIII. in 1534 was frustrated by the opposition .of the See also:

clergy and the council, Margaret in her disappointment revealed certain secrets to Henry which led to her being accused by her son of betraying him for money and of acting as an English See also:

spy. In 1537 she was anxious to obtain a divorce from Methven, and her desire was on the point of being realized when it was defeated by the intervention of James. Two years later she was reconciled to her husband, by whom she had no children; and, continuing to the end to intrigue both in Scotland and England, she died at Methven Castle on the 18th of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1541. See See also:

Andrew See also:

Lang, See also:

HISTORY

History of Scotland, vol. i. (London, 190o) ; See also:

Mary A. E. See also:

Green, Lives of the Princesses of England (6 vols., London, 1849–1855) ; The See also:

Hamilton Papers, ed. by J. See also:

Bain (2 vols., Edinburgh, 189o) John See also:

Leslie, History of Scotland, ed. by T. See also:

Thompson (4 vols., Edinburgh, 183o) ; See also:

Sir H. See also:

Ellis, See also:

ORIGINAL

Original Letters Illustrative of English History (London, 1825–1846). (R.

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