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 82 COMPLETE PEERAGE albany OF Boulogne and Auvergne, ist da. and coh. of his maternal uncle, Jean DE LA Tour, Count of Boulogne and Auvergne, by Jeanne, da. of Jean DE Bourbon, Count of Vend6me. She was then under lo years of age. She d. s.p. in June 1524, at the Castle of St. Saturin. (") Will dat. 16 June 1524. He d. s.p. legit., 2 June 1536, at his Castle of Mirefleur in Auvergne, and was bur. in the Chapel of the Palace of Vic-le-Comte, when all his honours became extinct. (") V. 1541. I. Arthur (Stewart), 2nd s. of James V, by his 2nd wife, Marie, da. of Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, was b. at Falkland, Apr. 1541, and was styled at his birth Duke of Albany [S.]. He d. eight days after his baptism, 1541, and was bur. at Holyrood Chapel — when the title (if indeed it ever existed) became extinct. VI. 1565. I. Henry (Stewart], Earl of Ross, fsfc. [S.], more generally known by his courtesy title of Lord Darnley, 1st s. and h. ap. of Matthew, 4th Earl of Lennox [S.], by Margaret, da. of Archibald (Douglas), Earl of Angus [S.], was, by charter 15 May 1565, C^) cr. LORD ARDMANNOCH and EARL OF ROSS [S.], under which designation he obtained, on 25 May, charter of the lands of Albany, and was soon afterwards, 20 July 1565, (") cr. DUKE OF ALBANY [S.]. On 29 July 1565 he m. Queen Mary [S.] at Holyrood Chapel, having been proclamed KING OF SCOTLAND the day previous. His murder at Kirk o'Field, 10 Feb. 1566/7, as also the life and remarriage of the Queen, his widow, ('^) and her execution, 8 Feb. 1586/7, are matters of national history. He was bur. privately in Holyrood Chapel. VII. 1567. 2. James (Stewart or Stuart), who, at his birth, was Duke of Rothesay, ^c. [S.], and Prince of Scotland; became also, a few months afterwards, (in right of his deceased father) Duke OF Albany, Earl of Ross, and Lord Ardmannoch [S.], only child and h. He was b. in Edinburgh Castle, 19 June 1566. By the abdication of his (') Her sister, Madeleine, m. (cont. Saturday 16 Jan. 15 18, i.e. 151 7/8), Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and d. 23 Apr. 15 19, leaving an only child, Catherine, Countess of Auvergne and Lauraguais, b. it, Apr. 15 19, who m., 28 Oct. 1533, Henry, Duke of Orleans, afterwards (1547) Henry II of France. ('') These particulars as to his death &c., are given in the Obituary of the Chapel of Vic-le-Comte (Baluze, ut supra, preuves, p. 202), where he is styled " Due dAlbanie Comte de Boulogne et dAuvergne. " The arms depicted with the effigies of himself and his wife, reproduced by Baluze, vol. i, p. 358, are, — Quarterly; i, Scotland ; 2, the Earldom of March ; 3, the Lordship of Man ; 4, the Lordship of Annandak. {i.e. the same as in Laing's Catalogue, no. 790). And for his wife. La Tour quartering the Comti of Auvergne, over all the Comti of Boulogne, {ex inform. G.W. Watson.) V.G. ^) See sub Methven. (■') See sub Bothwell.