Annabella DRUMMOND, Queen of Scotland

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• TitleOfNobility: ; Queen of Scotland
• Name: Annabella DRUMMOND
• Religion: ; Roman Catholic
• Residence: Scottish Monarch
• Political Coup: 1399, Scotland; She organized a palace coup. Made elder son a duke (first in Scotish history) and appoin

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Anabella Drummond (c. 1350? 1401) was the queen consort of Scotland by marriage to Robert III of Scotland. She was the daughter of Sir John Drummond, of Stobhall, near Perth, 11th Thane of Lennox and Chief of Clan Drummond, and Mary Montifex, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir William de Montifex, Justiciar of Scotland. It has been erroneous postulated that her father was the same John Drummond that was a brother to Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scotland but as this does not align with any historical dates, the latter John was probably a close ancestor.
She married John Stewart (the future Robert III of Scotland) in 1367. Soon, she was enveloped in a power struggle with her husband's brother, Robert. Since Anabella and John did have two daughters, but no sons for several years, he was a supporter of a law that would bar women from inheriting the throne.

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Anabella was crowned with Robert at Scone Palace when he came to the throne in 1390. She continued bearing children until she was past forty and had her last child, the future James I of Scotland, in 1394.

King Robert, an invalid since 1384 due to an accident with a horse, grew increasingly despondent and incompetent throughout his reign and was not capable to govern. During this time he is said to have said to her that he should be buried in a dung heap with the epitaph "Here lies the worst of kings and the most miserable of men".

Because the king was not able to rule, Anabella was prompted to manage state affairs as de facto ruler. The chronicles of Scotland generally praise queen Anabella and her conduct as queen. Protecting the interests of her oldest son, David, she arranged a great tournament in 1398 in Edinburgh, where her oldest son was knighted. In April of that year she also called a council where he was created Duke of Rothesay and Lieutenant of the Realm in the same year. Shortly after his mother's death he would be imprisoned by his uncle and died in mysterious circumstances. David was described as debauched, self-indulgent and erratic, and the Duke of Albany did not have to fight hard to control him.

The Fife burgh of Inverkeithing was a favorite residence of the queen. Her presence is still recalled in the sandstone font, decorated with angels and heraldry, which she presented to the parish church of the town, one of Scotland's finest surviving pieces of late medieval sculpture.

Anabella died in Scone Palace in October 1401, and was buried at her birthplace of Dunfermline. With the loss of her protection, her eldest son David would become the prey of his uncle, Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, dying shortly after

Annabella married King Robert III STEWART, of Scotland on 13 Mar 1365 in Dispensation, Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland. Robert (son of King Robert II Of SCOTLAND and Elizabeth MURE, of Rowallan) was born on 14 Aug 1337 in Dundonald Castle, Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland; was christened in 1337 in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland; died on 4 Apr 1406 in Rothesay Castle, Rothesay, Bute, Scotland; was buried in Apr 1406 in Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lady Margaret STEWART was born in 1370 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Schotland; died in Sep 1456 in Thrieve Castle, Galloway, Scotland; was buried in Sep 1456 in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
2. David STEWART, 1st Duke of Rothesay was born on 24 Oct 1378 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; died on 26 Mar 1402 in Falkland, Fife, Scotland; was buried in 1402 in Lindores Abbey, Falkland, Fife, Scotland.
3. Lady Mary STEWART, Princess of Scotland was born on 1 Jan 1380 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; was christened in 1384 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 20 Mar 1458 in Duntreath, Stirlingshire, Scotland; was buried in 1458 in Strathblane, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom.
4. Elizabeth STEWART was born in 1386 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom; died on 3 Nov 1411 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland; was buried in 1411 in Scotland, United Kingdom.
5. King James I STEWART, of Scotland was born on 25 Jul 1394 in Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; was christened on 30 Dec 1394 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died on 21 Feb 1437 in Monastery of the Friars Preachers, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland; was buried on 25 Feb 1437 in Perth Abbey, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

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• TitleOfNobility: ; 11th Chief of the House of Drummond.
• TitleOfNobility: ; Sir Knight
• Name: John McLEISH DRUMMOND

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About Sir John Drummond, 11th Chief of Lennox
Sir John Drummond, 11th of Lennox 1,2

M, #102467, b. 1318, d. 1373
Last Edited=2 Mar 2005
Sir John Drummond, 11th of Lennox was born in 1318. He was the son of Sir Malcolm Drummond, 10th Thane of Lennox and Margaret de Graham.2 He married Mary Montifex, daughter of Sir William de Montifex.2 He died in 1373.2 Sir John Drummond, 11th of Lennox lived at Strobhall, Scotland.1

Children of Sir John Drummond, 11th of Lennox and Mary Montifex

* Dougal Drummond 2
* Annabel Drummond+ b. c 1350, d. c Oct 1401
* Sir Malcolm Drummond b. 1351, d. 1403
* Margaret Drummond b. 1354
* Sir John Drummond, 12th of Lennox+ b. 1356, d. 1428
* Mary Drummond b. 1357
* William Drummond b. 1358
* Jean Drummond b. 1362
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From http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/dtog/drummon2.html

The wife of John, the eldest son, was Mary, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir William de Montifex, with whom he got the lands of Auchterarder, Kincardine in Monteith, Cargill, and Stobhall in Perthshire.

He had four sons,

Sir Malcolm,
Sir John,
William, and
Dougal;
and three daughters -

Annabella, married, in 1357, John, Earl of Carrick, high steward of Scotland, afterwards King Robert the Third, and thus became Queen of Scotland, and the mother of David, Duke of Rothesay, starved to death in the palace of Falkland, in 1402, and of James the First, as well as of three daughters;
Margaret, married to Sir Colin Campbell of Lochow,
Jean, to Stewart of Donally, and
Mary, to Macdonald of the Isles.
Citations

G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 155. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
Derek Hughes, "re: 1st Lord Drummond," e-mail message from (unknown address) to Darryl Lundy, 22 December 2004, 13 February 2005 and 2 March 2005. Hereinafter cited as "re: 1st Lord Drummond".
Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 104. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition.
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http://www.thepeerage.com/p10247.htm#i102467
The Drummonds, according to unvarying tradition, are of Hungarian origin, Maurice, the first of that family who settled in Scotland, having come from that country in 1066 with Edgar the Atheling and Margaret, his sister, afterwards wife of King Malcolm III of Scotland. Maurice adopted the name Drummond from the Gaelic 'druim' and 'monadh', that is 'back of the mountain'. Maurice was the son of George, a younger son of Andreas, King of Hungary. Andreas could trace his ancestry to Arpad, the Magyar king who conquered Hungary (d. 907), who m. a dt. of Jaroslav, the king of Novgorod and Kiev. Jaroslav was descended from the Swedish Viking Rurik (d. 870), who became king of Novgorod. The Swedish conquerors were called the Rus, or fair-haired, from which the word 'Russia' is derived

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John married Mary Margaret MONTIFEX, Countess of Lennox in 1347 in Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland. Mary (daughter of Sir William MONTIFEX MONTEFICHET, BARON OF CARGIL, One of the signers in 1320 of the Declaration of Arbroath and Mary DE MENTEITH) was born in 1325 in Stobhall, Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 31 Jan 1375 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland; was buried in Feb 1375 in Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• TitleOfNobility: ; Heiress of Cargill and Stobhall De Montefex
• Residence: ; Heiress of the lands of Auchterarder, Kincardine in Monteith, Cargill, and Stobhall in Perthshire

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Malcolm married Annabella GRAHAM. Annabella was born in 1299 in Stobhall, Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland; died in 1358 in Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland; was buried in 1358 in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sir married Mary DE MENTEITH. Mary was born in 1295 in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 21 Feb 1367 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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