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James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570)〔(Spottiswoode, John, ''History of the Church in Scotland'', vol. 2, Oliver & Boyd (1851), 120 ) gives date in Old Style as ''Saturday'' 23 January 1569/70, although Saturday was 21 January in that year, see (Reference calendar ): Loughlin, Mark, 'Stewart, James, first earl of Moray (1531/2–1570)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 24 Jan 2011 ) accepts 23 January: Fraser, Antonia, ''Mary, Queen of Scots'', p. 486 (p. 421 English edition) has 11 January 1570 as date of the assassination. Also mentioned by Alison Weir, ''Britain's Royal Family: The Complete Genealogy'' (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 242.〕 a member of the House of Stewart as the illegitimate son of King James V, was Regent of Scotland for his half-nephew, the infant King James VI of Scotland, from 1567 until his assassination in 1570. Until 1562 he was known as Lord James, and his title was Lord of Abernethy. ==Life and career== Moray was born in about 1531, the most notable of the many illegitimate children of King James V of Scotland. His mother was the King's favourite mistress, Lady Margaret Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine, and wife of Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven. On 31 August 1536 he had a charter of the lands of Tantallon and others. James was appointed Prior of St Andrews, Fife, in his youth in 1538.〔Sir James Balfour Paul, ''The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland'' (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 23.〕 This position supplied his income. As early as May 1553, the imperial ambassador to England, Jean Scheyfve, heard that Mary of Guise planned to make him Regent of Scotland in place of James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault.〔''Calendar of State Papers Spanish'', vol. xi, (1916), 41–2.〕 On 5 August 1557, Moray, his half-brother Lord Robert, and Lord Home led a raiding party from Edinburgh towards Ford Castle in Northumbria and burnt houses at Fenton before retreating on the approach of an English force led by Henry Percy.〔( Strype, John, ''Ecclesiastical Memorials'', vol. 3 part 2, (1822), 67–9 ).〕 James attended the wedding of his legitimate half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, in Paris. To fund this trip his mother obtained credit from Timothy Cagnioli, an Italian banker in Edinburgh.〔Cameron, Annie I., ed., ''Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine'', (1927), 411, total £1687-10s Scots.〕 James became a supporter of the Scottish Reformation. At Perth in June 1559 he plucked down the images in various churches.〔''Calendar State Papers Scotland'', vol. 1 (1898), 216.〕 An English commentator praised James for his virtue, manhood, valour and stoutness as a leader of the Protestant Lords of the Congregation.〔''Calendar of State Papers Scotland'', vol. 1 (1898), 362, Randolph to Killigrew, 15 April 1560.〕 Despite their religious differences, Moray became the chief advisor to his sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1561 after her return from France. She was the only surviving child of his father's marriage to Mary of Guise. Although James disturbed her priests celebrating mass at Holyroodhouse in September 1561,〔''Calendar State Papers Scotland'', vol. 1 (1898), 555.〕 she made him Earl of Moray and Earl of Mar the following year.〔Alison Weir, ''Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy'' (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 242.〕 With the earldom came Darnaway Castle with its medieval hall, notable even then as "verie fayer and large builded." Moray also had a smaller house called Pitlethie near Leuchars in Fife, which his father had used.〔''Calendar of State Papers Scotland'', vol. 1 (1898), 655: vol. 2 (1900), 2: Graves, Andrea, ''Princlie Majestie', John Donald (2005), 52〕 In October 1562, he defeated a rebellion by George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, at the Battle of Corrichie near Aberdeen. Moray opposed the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Lord Darnley in 1565, and he embarked upon the unsuccessful Chaseabout Raid, together with the Earl of Argyll and Clan Hamilton. He was subsequently declared an outlaw and took refuge in England. Returning to Scotland after the murder of David Rizzio, he was pardoned by the Queen. He contrived, however, to be away at the time of Darnley's assassination, and avoided the tangles of the marriage with Bothwell by going to France. 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「James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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