© Clipart.com(December 8, 1542 - February 8, 1587; France, Scotland)
A potential claimant to the British throne and briefly Queen of France, Mary became Queen of Scotland when her father died and she was only a week old. Her reign was brief and controversial.
(November 22, 1515 - June 11, 1560; France, Scotland)
Mary of Guise was part of the powerful Guise family of France. As wife of James V of Scotland, and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, she worked to suppress Protestantism in Scotland and triggered a civil war.
Widow of the Holy Roman Emperor, she was named by her father, Henry I of England, as his successor. She fought a long war of succession with her cousin, Stephen, who seized the throne before Matilda could be crowned.
