Margaret Fleming, Countess of Atholl (1536-1586) was a Scottish courtier and landowner rumoured to be involved in the occult. She served as lady-in-waiting...
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Margaret Fleming may refer to: Margaret Fleming, Countess of Atholl (1536–1586), Scottish courtier, lady-in-waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots, alleged witch...
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Earl of Atholl, and three daughters. Margaret Fleming was said to be a witch possessing the power to cast spells. James Fleming, 4th Lord Fleming (born...
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the secretary of John Knox, wrote that Mary had an easier childbirth because of the sorcery of Margaret Fleming, Countess of Atholl who transferred...
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Earl of Atholl (d. 1595), son of John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl, and Margaret Fleming. On 14 November 1578 she wrote as "Marie Countas of Atholl" to Barbara...
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Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl (died 25 April 1579), called the Fair, was a Scottish nobleman and courtier. He was favoured by Mary, Queen of Scots, but later...
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earl of Atholl, ODNB Brown, Atholl and the Death of James I, pp. 27–28 Brown, Atholl and the Death of James I, p. 28 Brown, Atholl and the Death of James...
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Alexander Hay (died 1594) (category Privy Council of Mary, Queen of Scots)
ambassador Thomas Randolph. He heard that Margaret Fleming, Countess of Atholl had sent a jewel to Mary, Queen of Scots, but it had been intercepted and...
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Lyon (née Murray), Countess of Kinghorne (1579 – 27 February 1618), was a Scottish courtier said to be the mistress of James VI of Scotland. Anne Murray...
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Earl of Atholl, (1563–1595) was a Scottish landowner. John Stewart was the son of John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl and Margaret Fleming, daughter of Malcolm...
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Albert Fontenay (category Court of Mary, Queen of Scots)
"liberal promises" of Mary's gratitude. He also met one of Mary's consistent allies, Margaret Fleming, Countess of Atholl. Fontenay wrote of his discussions...
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reckoned 3rd laird of Glenorchy, and Margaret Stewart (d. 1524), daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl. As a child he was fostered with Fearnan...
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Atholl and Margaret Fleming, in 1587 Margaret, daughter of James Stewart, Earl of Moray Elizabeth, daughter of William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton By his...
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request of Murray or Morton. Agnes Graham, the wife of William Murray of Tullibardine, wrote to Annabell Murray assuring her that the Countess of Atholl's complaint...
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request the release of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. An Italian newsletter, written in 1566 for Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, describes...
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Scotland and his mistress Lady Margaret Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine, and wife of Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven. On 31 August 1536...
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compulsion." The Earl of Atholl carried the crown of honour, the Earl of Morton, the sceptre, and the Earl of Glencairn carried the sword of honour. Morton pronounced...
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Isabella Strathbogie, daughter of John, Earl of Atholl. The title therefore became extinct on his death at the Battle of Faughart in 1318. After briefly...
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Earl of Carrick in 1368 and would later be crowned King of Scotland under the name Robert III. In 1361 Stewart married Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith...
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On 24 April 1579 the Earl of Atholl died shortly after attending a banquet at Stirling Castle. His wife Margaret Fleming, (who had been married to Murray's...
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was born in 1362, the only son of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (1340–1420), and his wife Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith. Duke Robert was a leading...
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Mary Seton (category Court of Mary, Queen of Scots)
mother, Mary Pieris, Lady Seton, who was at Blair Castle with the Countess of Atholl, heard her daughter was ill, and wrote from Dunkeld to Queen Mary...
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Adam Erskine (category Court of James VI and I)
5th Lord Erskine. His father's wife was Margaret Fleming, later Countess of Atholl. He was made Commendator of Cambuskenneth Abbey in 1562. In 1559 he...
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Good, Duke of Burgundy, settled sixty thousand crowns on his kinswoman, and her dower of ten thousand was secured on lands in Strathearn, Atholl, Methven...
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James V (redirect from Cultural depictions of James V of Scotland)
seventeen months. James was the son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England. During his childhood Scotland was governed by...
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was King of Scots from 1390 to his death in 1406. He was also High Steward of Scotland from 1371 to 1390 and held the titles of Earl of Atholl (1367–1390)...
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Commission of fire and sword against the royalists in Atholl and Angus, which, after succeeding in entrapping John Murray, 1st Earl of Atholl, he carried...
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of King James III and Margaret of Denmark. As heir apparent to the Scottish crown, he became Duke of Rothesay at birth. James probably spent most of his...
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yet been found that it, or the Countess of Atholl's jewel, were made in Scotland. Recent researchers propose that Margaret Douglas commissioned the jewel...
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Robert the Bruce (redirect from Robert Bruce of Annandale)
bishops of Moray and Glasgow were in attendance, as were the earls of Atholl, Menteith, the Lennox and Mar. The great banner of the kings of Scotland...
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