List of Manx royal consorts

This is a list of wives and consorts of the sovereign rulers of the Isle of Man. Most of these women used other titles that their husband held rather than Queen or Lady of Mann.

List of consorts

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† Husband's death

# Husband's accession or appointment

Queens of the Isles
Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became
Consort
Ceased to
be Consort
Death Spouse
Margaret Fredkulla Ingesdotter of Sweden Inge I of Sweden
(Stenkil)
1080s 1101 August 1103† 4 November 1130 Magnus III of Norway
Blathmin Ua Briain Muirchertach Ua Briain, High King of Ireland
(Ua Briain)
1094/97 after 1102 August 1103# ?
Husband abandoned her after taking the throne
- Sigurd I of Norway
Aufrica of Galloway Fergus, Lord of Galloway - Olaf I Godredsson
Ingeborg Haakonsdottir Haakon Paulsson, jarl of Orkney -
Ragnhildis Ólafsdóttir Olaf I Godredsson - Somerled
Findguala of Ireland Eóghan MacDubhghaill, Lord of Argyll - 1176 10 November 1187† - Godred II Olafsson
Christina of Ross Fearchar mac in tSagairt, Earl of Ross - 1220s - - Olaf the Black
Queens of Mann and the Isles
Cecilia Haakonsdottir Haakon IV of Norway
(Fairhair)
1225[citation needed] 1246/47 1248
Husband and wife drowned
Harald Olafsson
Maria de Ergadia Eóghan MacDubhghaill, Lord of Argyll - - - 24 November 1265† 1302 Magnus Olafsson
Queens of Mann
Montagu family, 1333–1392
Catherine Grandison William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison 1304 around 1320
or
1329, or before
9 August 1333
Husband's recognition
30 January 1344† 23 November 1349 William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Joan Plantagenet Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
(Plantagenet)
29 September 1328 before 10 February 1341
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30 January 1344# 17 November 1349
Marriage annulled by Pope
7 August 1385 William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
Elizabeth de Mohun John de Mohun, 9th Lord of Mohun of Dunster 1343 - 1392
Isle of Man sold
14/16 January 1415
Scrope family, 1392–1399: None
Percy family, 1399–1405: None
Stanley family, 1405–1504
Isabel Lathom Sir Thomas Lathom - 1385 6 April 1406# 1414† - Sir John Stanley (died 1414)
Isabel Harington Sir Robert Harington - Sir John Stanley (died 1437)
Joan Goushill Sir Robert Goushill - Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley
Eleanor Neville Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury
(Neville)
1447 after 10 May 1457 20 February 1459# before November 1482 Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
Margaret Beaufort John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset
(Beaufort)
31 May 1443 June 1472 29 July 1504† 29 June 1509
Ladies of Mann
Stanley family, 1504–1651
Anne Hastings Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings 1485 about 1507 23 May 1521† 17 November 1550 Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby
Dorothy Howard Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
(Howard)
1497 21 February 1530 1545 Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby
Margaret Clifford Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland
(Clifford)
1540 7 February 1554 24 October 1572# 25 September 1593† 28 September 1596 Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby
Alice Spencer Sir John Spencer, High Sheriff of Northamptonshire
(Spencer)
4 May 1559 about 1579 25 September 1593# 16 April 1594† 23 January 1637 Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby
Succession dispute (1594–1607)
Interim Lords (1607–1609)
Elizabeth de Vere Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
(Vere)
2 July 1575 26 June 1594 1609# 1612
Became Lady of Mann in her own right
10 March 1627 William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby
Charlotte de La Trémoille Claude de La Trémoille, duc de Thouars
(La Trémoille)
1599 26 June 1626 10 March 1627# 15 October 1651† 22 March 1668 James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
Fairfax family, 1651–1660
Anne de Vere Horace de Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury
(Vere)
1618 20 June 1637 1651
?
1660
?
16 October 1665 Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Stanley family, 1660–1736
Dorothea Helena Kirkhoven Jehan, Lord of Heenvliet 1599 1650 1660
Husband's restoration
21 December 1672† 6 April 1673 Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby
Elizabeth Butler Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory
(Butler)
1660 10 July 1673 5 November 1702† 5 July 1717 William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby
Mary Morley Sir William Morley - February 1705 1 February 1736† 29 March 1752 James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby
Murray family, 1736–1765
Jane Frederick Thomas Frederick 1693 28 April 1726 1 February 1736# 13 June 1748 James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
Jean Drummond John Drummond, 10th of Lennoch
(Drummond)
- 7 May 1749 8 January 1764† 22 February 1795
House of Hanover, 1765–1901
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg
(Mecklenburg)
19 May 1744 8 September 1761 10 May 1765
Isle of Man sold to British government
17 November 1818 George III of Great Britain
Caroline of Brunswick Charles II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
(Welf)
17 May 1768 8 April 1795 29 January 1820# 7 August 1821 George IV of the United Kingdom
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
(Wettin)
13 August 1792 13 July 1818 26 June 1830# 20 June 1837† 2 December 1849 William IV of the United Kingdom
Albert of Saxe-Coburg
as Consort of Mann
Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
(Wettin)
26 August 1819 10 February 1840 14 December 1861 Victoria of the United Kingdom
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; renamed House of Windsor, 1901–present
Alexandra of Denmark Christian IX of Denmark
(Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg)
1 December 1844 10 March 1863 22 January 1901# 6 May 1910† 20 November 1925 King Edward VII
Mary of Teck Francis, Duke of Teck
(Teck)
26 May 1867 6 July 1893 6 May 1910# 20 January 1936† 24 March 1953 King George V
Unmarried while king (20 January – 11 December 1936) King Edward VIII
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
(Bowes-Lyon)
4 August 1900 26 April 1923 11 December 1936# 6 February 1952† 30 March 2002 King George VI
Philip Mountbatten
as Consort of Mann
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark 10 June 1921 20 November 1947 6 February 1952
Wife's accession
9 April 2021 Queen Elizabeth II
Camilla Shand Major Bruce Shand 17 July 1947 9 April 2005 8 September 2022# Charles III

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ This marriage was bigamous because Joan was already married to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.

Sources

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