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A47110 The genealogies of the high-born Prince & Princess, George and Anne of Denmark, &c. shewing the lineal descent of these two noble and illustrious families : with their matches, issue, times of death, places of sepulchre, impresses, devices, &c. from the year of grace M. to this present year, MDCLXXXIV ... H. K. (Henry Keepe), 1652-1688. 1684 (1684) Wing K124A; ESTC R8240 35,035 128

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Terrestrial Globe The word VANITAS VANITATUM OMNIA VANITAS 6. Robert III. King of Scotland JOHN STUART eldest Son of King Robert by his second Wife was Earl of Carri●… and High-Steward of Scotland and upon the death of his Father Crowned King on the Assumption of the blessed Virgin the fifteenth day of August in the year one thousand three hundred and ninety according to the establishment made in Parliament in the life time of his Father On the day of his Inauguration or Anointing he was Importun'd by his Nobles to alter his Name wherefore he was Crowned by the Name of King Robert the Third The reason given is For that it was observed how unfortunate the Name of John had been not only to several of the Blood-Royal of Scotland but likewise to John King of England and to John the French King This Robert after he had ruled the Kingdom with great Integrity for the space of sixteen years having lost one of his Sons by the wicked contrivance of his Brother Robert whilst he was Governour and his second Son continuing a Captive in England took it so to heart that he died for grief thereof at Rothsay on the first day of April in the year one thousand four hundred and six and was buried at Paseley having had Issue by his Queen Annabella Drummond Besides these two Sons as many Daughters the one Married to the Earl of Angus by whom she had William Earl of Augus The other was twice Married first to Kennedy by whom she had Sir James Kennedy Knight and another James who was Bishop of St. Andrews who built a Church and erected the famous Colledge of Phylosophy in the said City Her second Husband Graham and her Son by him Patrick Graham who was the first Arch-bishop of St. Andrews and who died in Prison at Lockleven DAVID eldest Son of King Robert and his Queen Annabella Drummond born in the year one thousand three hundred seventy and eight was created Duke of Rothsay but being delivered to the Tuition of his Uncle the Duke of Albany that he might reclaim his Extravagancies was by him inclosed in the Castle of Falkland and there Starv'd to death he Married Mary the Daughter of Archibald Duglas but left no Issue so that his Brother JAMES succeeded his Father in the Throne of Scotland The Character bestowed on King Robert the Third is this That he was a Prince of wonderful Innocency of Life and unspotted Manners deficient in nothing that might make a private man excellent and that it was most truly said him that he was a much better Man than King Impress or Device King Robert the Third bare for his Impress or Device A Sword and Scepter passing through a Coronet and placed in Saltire over a Mond or Globe with an Aveline cross thereon The Word HIS ORNARI AUT MORI 7. James I King of Scotland JAMES STUART second Son of King Robert the Third as yet a Youth was sent into France to prevent the Butchery of his Uncle Robert who had already destroy'd his Elder Brother but being cast by Storm on the Coast of England was taken Prisoner and sent to the Court where by the care of King Henry the Fifth and his Son King Henry the Sixth Noble Provision was made for his Education so that by the time he came to mans Estate he was excellently accomplished in all sorts of Learning and good Literature And having lived thus a Captive and a Stranger to his own Country for near Eighteen years was upon the Death of his Father King Robert soon after set at Liberty and returning into Scotland with his Wife Joan Eldest Daughter of John Beaufort Earl of Somerset and Marquess of Dorset whom he Married in England He was Crowned King thereof on the one and twentieth day of May next following in the year one thousand four hundred twenty and four This King James ruled the Scepter of Scotland in great Tranquility for some years making divers wholesom and good Laws especially to restrain the force of Thieves and Robbers and was the first who ordain'd that Organs should be used in the Churches of Scotland But a Confederacy and Association of mutinous Outlaws and Male-contents being entred into to take away the Life of this King they Bloodily perpetrated their Villany by assaulting his Person and giving him no less than twenty eight Mortal Wounds of which he immediately expired on the one and twentieth day of February in the year one thousand four hundred thirty and six after he had reigned thirteen years ten months and odd days in the forty and fourth year of his Age and was buried in the House of the Carthusians in the Suburbs of Berth of his own Foundation not far from the Sepulchre of his Wife Joan by whom he had two Sons and six Daughters JAMES the Eldest was King of Scotland and ALEXANDER born on the same day with his Brother a Twin who died young MARGARET Eldest Daughter given in Marriage to Lewis the Dauphin afterwards King of France by the Name of Lewis the Eleventh Son of Charles the Seventh she died in the life-time of her Father in Law at Chalones in Champagne where she was first Buried in the great Church there But after when her Husband came to the Crown he caused her Body to be Translated and Interred in the Abbey-Church of Laon in Poictou ELIZABETH Wife to Francis the first Duke of Brittany JANE first Married to the Earl of Angus and after to George Earl of Huntley ELEANOR Wedded to Sigismond of Cyroll Arch-Duke of Austria MARY Espoused to the Prince of Uerense or Lord of Camp-veer in France ANNABELLA sixth and youngest Daughter celebrated her Nuptials with the Earl of Morton Queen Jane lived many years after the death of her first Husband King James and was afterwards Married to James Stuart Son to the Lord of Lorne commonly called the Black-Knight of Lorne who being taken Prisoner by the Flemings died in Durance The Queen not long surviving him who died on the fifteenth day of July following in the year one thousand four hundred forty and six and was buried in the Charter-house at Perth by her Husband leaving Issue by the aforesaid Black-Knight John Stuart Earl of Athol James Earl of Buchane and Andrew Bishop of Murrey Impress or Device This King James bare for his Impress or Device a branch of Thistles with a Sprig of Rue The word POUR MA DEFENCE Which was first taken up by Achaius King of Scotland when he made that strict League with the Emperour Carlemain A. D. 787. giving intimation by the Motto That he feared not the Power of any Foraign Prince seeing he lean'd on the Succour and Alliance of the French 8. James II King of Scotland JAMES STUART Eldest Son of King James the First of Scotland was born together with his Brother Alexander on the fourteenth day of October in the year one thousand four hundred and thirty And being scarce seven years of Age when his