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Henry Stewart or Stuart, Duke of Albany (7 December 1545 – 10 February 1567), styled Lord Darnley before 1565, was king consort of Scotland from 1565 until his murder at Kirk o' Field in 1567. Many contemporary narratives describing his life and death refer to him as Lord Darnley, his title as heir apparent to the Earldom of Lennox, and it is by this appellation that he is now generally known.〔Antonia Fraser, ''Mary Queen of Scots''.〕 He was the second but eldest surviving son of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and his wife, Lady Margaret Douglas. Darnley's maternal grandparents were Archibald Douglas, sixth Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England, and widow of James IV of Scotland. It is the common belief that Henry Stewart 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.〔Elaine Finnie Greig, 'Stewart, Henry, duke of Albany (Darnley ) (1545/6–1567)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 (accessed 4 March 2012 )〕 ==Early life== Darnley was born in 1545, at Temple Newsam, Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Through his parents he had claims to both the Scottish and English thrones, as he was descended from both James II of Scotland and Henry VII. Darnley's father, Matthew Earl of Lennox, had been declared guilty of treason in Scotland for his part in the war of the Rough Wooing, siding with the English as an opponent of Mary of Guise and Regent Arran, and his Scottish estates were forfeited in 1545.〔 Lennox lived in exile in England for 22 years, returning to Scotland in 1564. Darnley's mother, Margaret Douglas had left Scotland in 1528.〔Daniel, William S. (1852), ''History of The Abbey and Palace of Holyrood''. Pub. Edinburgh: Duncan Anderson. p. 62〕 Lord Darnley was well educated and brought up conscious of his status and inheritance. He became well-versed in Latin and grew up familiar with Gàidhlig, English and French. He excelled in singing, lute playing, and dancing. His tutors included the Scottish scholar, John Elder, who had been an advocate of Anglo-Scottish union by the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Prince Edward, and gave his opinions to Henry VIII as the ''Advice of a Redshank'' in 1543.〔(''Letters & Papers Henry VIII,'' vol. 18 part 2, (1902), no. 539 ): (''Bannatyne Miscellany'', Edinburgh vol. 1, (1827), 1–6 )〕 Another of his schoolmasters, Arthur Lallart, was interrogated in London after going to Scotland in 1562.〔''Calendar State Papers Domestic 1547–1580'', (1856), pp. 201, 203〕 Darnley was strong and athletic, a good horseman with knowledge of weapons and a passion for hunting and hawking. Darnley wrote a letter to Mary I of England from Temple Newsam in March 1554 mentioning a drama or map he had made, the ''Utopia Nova''. He wished, "every haire in my heade for to be a wourthy souldiour".〔Ellis, Henry, ed., ''Original Letters illustrative of British History,'' 2nd series vol. 2, (1827) pp. 249–251〕 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「Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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