Anabella Drummond
| Annabella Drummond | |
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| Queen consort of Scotland | |
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| Tenure | 1390–1401 |
| Spouse | Robert III |
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| Elizabeth Mary, Countess of Angus Egidia Margaret, Countess of Douglas Robert David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay James I of Scotland |
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| Father | Sir John Drummond, 11th Thane of Lennox |
| Mother | Mary Montifex |
| Born | ca. 1350 Dunfermline Abbey, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
| Died | October 1401 (aged 51) Scone Palace, Scone, Perth |
| Burial | Dunfermline Abbey |
Anabella Drummond (c. 1350–1401) was the Queen Consort of Scotland as the wife of Robert III of Scotland.
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[edit] Family
She was the daughter of Sir John Drummond, of Stobhall, near Perth, 11th Thane of Lennox and Chief of Clan Drummond, and Mary Montifex. Her father's sister was Margaret Drummond, the second wife of David II of Scotland.
[edit] Life
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 Annabella 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.
Annabella was crowned with her husband 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.[1]
She protected the interests of her oldest son David. In 1398, she arranged a great tournament in Edinburgh when her oldest son was knighted.[2] She and her husband were also present when he was created Duke of Rothesay in the same year. Shortly after his mother's death he would be imprisoned by his uncle and died in a mysterious way.
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.
[edit] Issue
Annabella had several children with Robert III:
- Elizabeth, married James Douglas, 1st Baron Dalkeith
- Mary, married firstly to George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus, secondly to Sir James Kennedy the Younger (by whom she had Gilbert Kennedy, 1st Lord Kennedy), and thirdly to Alexander Graham
- Egidia, died young
- Margaret, married Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas
- Robert, died young
- David, later Duke of Rothesay
- James, later King of Scots
She died in Scone Palace and was buried at her birthplace of Dunfermline.
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| Preceded by Euphemia de Ross |
Queen consort of Scotland 1390–1401 |
Succeeded by Joan Beaufort |
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