#qc: annabella drummond

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♕ Scottish-born wives and queen consorts of Scotland 

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Queen Consorts of Scotland ♕ House of Stewart (1371–1542)

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queen consorts + most pregnancies (requested by anonymous)

Margaret of Wessex (b. circa 1070 - d.1093) ♕ 8 pregnancies; all children lived to adulthood Anabella Drummond (b. circa 1350 - d.1401) ♕ 7 pregnancies; 5 children lived to adulthood Joan Beaufort (b. circa 1404 - d.1445) ♕ 8 pregnancies; 7 children lived to adulthood Mary of Guelders (b.1434 - d.1463) ♕ 7 pregnancies; 6 children lived to adulthood Margaret Tudor (b.1489 - d.1541) ♕ 6 pregnancies; 1 child lived to adulthood Anne of Denmark (b.1574 - d.1619) ♕ 10 pregnancies; 3 children lived to adulthood Henrietta Maria of France (b.1609 - d.1669) ♕ 9 pregnancies; 5 children lived to adulthood Mary of Modena (b.1658 - d.1718) ♕ 12 pregnancies; 2 children lived to adulthood

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The royal line of descent of Mary II and Anne I → House of Stewart & Stuart (c.1371-1707)

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The Ladies ♕ Queen Consorts [15/25] ↳ Annabella Drummond (c.1350 -1401), Queen Consort from 1390 to 1401

Annabella Drummond was born sometime between 1349 and 1354 to Sir John Drummond, Chief of Clan Drummond and Mary Montifex, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir William de Montifex, Justiciar of Scotland. When Annabella was about seventeen, King David II (Robert II’s uncle) chose her as the bride of the thirty-year-old John Stewart of Kyle (future Robert III) who was in line to inherit the throne if King David II died childless. They ended up marrying in either 1366 or 1367. During the first ten years of marriage the couple had two daughters until 24 October 1378, when Annabella gave birth to their first son David. Two more daughters and a son (who died young) followed. On 19 April 1390, John’s father, Robert II died and John, changing his name to Robert, became King. Robert III was crowned on 14 August 1390 at Scone Abbey, with Annabella’s coronation the next day. By 1394, Annabella was probably in her forties, she gave birth to her last child, a son named James, the future James I, on the 25th of July. During this time Annabella began actively promoting her eldest son’s interests. David, already having a part in government at the age of fourteen, was knighted in 1398. He was then made Duke of Rothesay (the first to hold the title) and named “Lieutenant of the Realm” soon after (on the same day, Robert’s brother the Earl of Fife was made Duke of Albany). By the end of the 14th century Robert III was incapable of any control in his kingdom and Annabella was prompted to manage state affairs as de facto ruler. After a failed invasion by Henry IV of England in 1400, Annabella died the following year in the autumn of 1401 at Scone and was buried at Dunfermline. The chroniclers spoke well of her and praised her conduct as Queen. Shortly after her death, Albany seized David, Duke of Rothesay and imprisoned him. He died under mysterious circumstances. Before Robert died in April 1406, he sent his and Annabella’s son James to France, fearing for his safety. The new King James I’s ship was then seized by pirates, and he was taken to England where he became a prisoner of King Henry IV.