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Lady Arbella Stuart (or "Arabella" and/or "Stewart") (1575 – 25 September 1615) was a noblewoman who was for some time considered a possible successor to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Born in England, Arbella Stuart was the only child of Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox (of the third creation), by his marriage to Elizabeth Cavendish. She was a grandchild of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (of the second creation) and Lady Margaret Douglas, who was in turn the daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and of Queen Margaret Tudor, the widow of James IV of Scotland. Arbella was therefore a great-great-granddaughter of Henry VII of England and in line to the English throne, although she did not herself aspire to it.〔Rosalind K. Marshall, ''Stuart , Lady Arabella (1575–1615)'', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 3 March 2008 )〕 Her paternal grandparents, the 4th Earl of Lennox and Margaret Douglas, had two sons: Arbella's father Charles and his older brother Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who became the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the father of Arbella's cousin James VI and I of Scotland, England and Ireland. Her maternal grandparents were Sir William Cavendish and Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, nowadays better known as "Bess of Hardwick". In her final days as a prisoner in the Tower of London, Arbella Beauchamp (her married name), refusing to eat, fell ill, and died on 25 September 1615. She was buried in Westminster Abbey on 29 September 1615. In the 19th century, during a search for the tomb of James I, Arbella's lead coffin was found in the vault of Mary, Queen of Scots, placed directly on top of that of the Scots queen. == Childhood == Arbella's father died in 1576 when she was still an infant. She was raised by her mother Elizabeth Cavendish until 1582.〔Antonia Fraser, ''Mary, Queen of Scots'', p. 535〕 The death of her mother left seven-year-old Arbella an orphan, whereupon she became the ward of her grandmother Bess, rather than Lord Burghley the Master of the Court of Wards, as might have been expected.〔Sarah Gristwood, ''Arbella: England's Lost Queen'', Bantam, 2003, p.49〕 During most of her childhood she lived in the protective isolation of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire with her grandmother, who had married George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury in 1568. It seems she enjoyed periodic visits to the court and to London, including court visits during the summers of 1587 and 1588 and one that lasted from November 1591 to July 1592.〔David N. Durant, ''Arbella Stuart: A Rival to the Queen'', 1978, pp.41, 51, 61〕 Starting in early 1589 or thereabouts "one Morley ... attended on Arbell and read to her", as reported in a dispatch from Bess of Hardwick to Lord Burghley, dated 21 September 1592.〔Blanche C. Hardy, (''Arbella Stuart: A Biography'' ), Dutton, 1913, pp.64–67〕 Bess recounts Morley's service to Arbella over "the space of three years and a half". She also notes he had hoped for an annuity of some £40 a year from Arbella based on the fact that he had "been so much damnified (that much out of pocket ) by leaving the University". This has led to speculation that Morley was the poet Christopher Marlowe,〔Charles Nicholl, ''The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe'', 1992, pp.340–342〕 whose name was sometimes spelled that way. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lady Arbella Stuart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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