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The Royal Consort of Scotland was the spouse of the Monarch of Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland was first unified as a state by Kenneth I of Scotland in 843, and ceased to exist as an independent kingdom in 1707, when it was merged with the Kingdom of England to become the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The early history of Scotland is confused and often obscure, due largely to information given by the sources of the time and after, which are often contradictory, vague, and lacking in detail. Details of the Kings prior to Malcolm III are sparse, and the status of two - Giric and Eochaid - dubious; details of their wives are almost non-existent. Thus, it's practically impossible to construct a list of consorts of Scotland prior to the accession of Macbeth, about whose wife Gruoch more is known.

House of Moray

Although a few details of earlier Queen consorts are known - for example, Duncan I was married to a woman named in one source as Suthen - the first Queen about whom much is known is Gruoch, a daughter of Boite mac Cináeda, himself a son of either Kenneth II or Kenneth III. Her son was Lulach; the mother of Máel Snechtai of Moray, his son, was still alive in 1078, when she was seized by Malcolm III Long-neck, but nothing else is known of her, not even if she and Lulach were married.

Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse
	Gruoch of Scotland	MacAlpin	?	after 1032	c.14 August 1040	–	15 August 1057	?	Macbeth
Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse

House of Dunkeld (1058-1286)

In 1058, Malcolm Long-neck of the House of Dunkeld overthrew his cousin, Lulach, and reclaimed the Scottish throne for himself. His family, the House of Dunkeld, would rule until the death of Alexander III in 1286, with whom the House ended. Alexander's heir was his infant granddaughter, Margaret, "the Maid of Norway", of the House of Fairhair; but she died, still unmarried and childless, in late 1290 before reaching Scotland, and was never crowned at Scone. After two years of Interregnum, the controversial John de Balliol was chosen as King (his wife was already dead, and never became Queen consort); but after four years of reign, he abdicated, and Scotland entered another Interregnum until 1306.

Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse
	Ingibiorg Finnsdottir	—	?	?	1058?	–	1058/1069?		Malcolm III
	Margaret of England	Wessex	c.1045	1070		–	13 November 1093	16 November 1093	Malcolm III
	Uchtreda of Northumbria		?	1093/1094		–	1094	?	Duncan II
	Sybilla of Normandy	Normandy	1092	1107		–	12/13 July 1122		Alexander I
	Maud of Northumbria		1074	1113	April/May 1124	–	1130		David I
	Ermengarde de Beaumont	Beaumont	c.1170	5 September 1186		–	12 December 1214	12 February 1233/1234	William I
	Joan of England	Plantagenet	22 July 1210	21 June 1221		–	4 March 1238		Alexander II
	Marie de Coucy	Coucy	c.1218	15 May 1239		–	6 July 1249	1285	Alexander II
	Margaret of England	Plantagenet	29 September 1240	26 December 1251			26 February 1275		Alexander III
	Yolande de Dreux	Dreux	c.1265	15 October 1285			19 March 1286	2 August 1330	Alexander III
Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse

House of Bruce (1306-1371) (Bruis)

In 1306, Robert the Bruce and his wife, Elizabeth de Burgh, were crowned King and Queen of Scots at Scone, ending the Scottish interregnum. The Bruce family would rule until the death of David II in 1371.

Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse
	Elizabeth de Burgh	de Burgh	c.1289	1302	27 March 1306		27 October 1327		Robert I
	Joan of England	Plantagenet	5 July 1321	17 July 1328	13 June 1329		7 November 1362		David II
	Margaret Drummond	Drummond	c.1340	20 February 1364			20 March 1369 Divorced by husband	31 January 1375	David II
Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse

House of Stewart (1371-1707) (Gælic: Stiubhart)

Direct Line (1371-1542)

Upon the death of David II in 1371, his nephew, Robert Stewart (the son of Walter Stewart and Marjorie Bruce, herself the daughter of Robert I by his first marriage) acceded to the throne. His direct line of heirs would continue to rule until the death of his last direct descendant, James V. James left only a six-day old girl as his heir, prompting his angry exclamation, "The devil go with it! [Therule of the Stewarts] will end as it began. It came with a lass, and it'll pass with a lass." In this he was wrong: Mary would marry a member of a junior branch of the Stewart family, and the line they founded would rule not only Scotland but also England and Ireland until 1714.

Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse
	Euphemia de Ross	Ross	before 1333	2 May 1355	22 May 1371		1386		Robert II
	Anabella Drummond	Drummond	c.1350	1367	August 1390		1401		Robert III
	Joan Beaufort	Beaufort	c.1404	2 February 1424			21 February 1437	15 July 1445	James I
	Mary of Guelders	Egmond	c.1434	3 July 1449			3 August 1460	1 December 1463	James II
	Margaret of Denmark	Oldenburg	23 June 1456	July 1469			before 14 July 1486		James III
	Margaret of England	Tudor	28 November 1489	8 August 1503			9 September 1513	18 October 1541	James IV
	Madeleine of Valois	Valois	10 August 1520	1 January 1537			7 July 1537		James V
	Mary of Guise	Guise	22 November 1515	18 May 1538		22 February 1540	14 December 1542	11 June 1560	James V
Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse

House of Stuart (1542-1649)

In 1542, James V died, leaving his daughter Mary as Queen of Scots. Mary was later sent by her mother to the French court, where her surname was gallicised to Stuart. Mary married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, a member of a junior branch of the Stewart family (who had also gallicised their surname to Stuart). Their son, James VI, established the Stuart dynasty, which would rule not only Scotland but also England and Ireland. Their rule was briefly terminated with the Civil War, in which Charles I was executed and the Commonwealth declared; between 1649 and 1660, England, Scotland and Ireland were ruled by Parliament, dominated by Oliver Cromwell.

Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse
	Francis II of France	Valois	19 January 1544	24 April 1558			5 December 1560		Mary I
	Henry Stuart	Stuart	7 December 1545	29 July 1565			9/10 February 1567
	James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell	Hepburn	c.1534	15 May 1567			24 July 1567 Wife's abdication	14 April 1578
	Anne of Denmark	Oldenburg	12 December 1574	23 November 1589		17 May 1590	2 March 1619		James VI
	Henrietta Maria of France	Bourbon	25 November 1609	13 June 1625			30 January 1649	10 September 1669	Charles I
Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse

House of Stuart (restored) (1660-1707)

In 1660, Charles II, son of the executed Charles I, was restored to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, and Stuart rule began again. James VII, his brother, was overthrown in 1688-89 because of his Catholic faith; his daughters, Mary II and Anne, were the last Stuarts to rule in the British Isles, Anne dying in 1714. The Kingdom of Scotland, however, had already ceased to exist in 1707, when the Act of Union amalgamated the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a united Kingdom of Great Britain. James VII's son, James Francis Edward Stuart, refusing to accept the Act of Union, claimed the English and Scottish thrones, as did his son Charles Edward Stuart; however, they're not considered legitimate Kings of Scotland, since they never effectively secured their claims, and so their wives are not listed here.

Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse
	Catherine of Braganza	Braganza	25 November 1638	21 May 1662			6 February 1685	31 December 1705	Charles II
	Mary of Modena	Este	5 October 1658	30 September 1673	6 February 1685		11 December 1688	7 May 1718	James VII
	Prince George of Denmark	Oldenburg	2 April 1653	28 July 1683	8 March 1702		1 May 1707 Kingdom of Scotland abolished; Anne becomes Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Great Britain, George royal consort of the same	28 October 1708	Anne
Picture	Name	House	Birth	Marriage	Became Consort	Coronation	Ceased to be Consort	Death	Spouse

For the subsequent consorts of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, see List of British consorts.Further Information

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