Margaret Douglas

Daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret

Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (8 October 1515 – 7 March 1578), was the daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret Tudor and her second husband Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus.

In her youth she was high in the favour of her uncle, Henry VIII of England, but later incurred his anger for her unauthorised engagement to Lord Thomas Howard, who died in the Tower of London in 1537.

In 1544, she married Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox.Her son Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, married Mary, Queen of Scots, and was the father of James VI and I.