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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Mary of Guise Biography MARY OF GUISE, (1515-60). Queen of Scotland. She was the daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise, and Antoinette de Bourbon, and is also known as Mary of Lorraine. At the age of 19 she was married to Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville, who died in 1537. In 1538 she married James V of Scotland, who died in 1542, soon after the announcement to him of the birth of a daughter, Mary, afterward Queen of Scots. Mary of Guise was Regent of Scotland for a short period, and showed herself an enemy of the party led by Arran and an opponent of the Reformed religion. She caused her daughter to be sent to France and plighted to the future Francis II, the marriage taking place in 1558. Consult Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1861), and T. G. Law, in Cambridge Modern History, vol. iii (Cambridge, 1904), containing a bibliography. The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XV (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 177. |