How was Margret Douglas who married the Earl of Lennox related to Henry VIII and Katherine Parr?"?

Question

I know that they attened the wedding (Henry and the Queen ) and that Margret was one of their cousins. But my question is who's cousin and was it first or second or what? Was the Earl of Lennox already Calhoun or was it still Grant at that time?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Margaret Douglas was Henry VIII's niece.  Her mother was Henry's sister Margaret, who had been married first to King james IV of Scotland, then after his death to Archibald Dogulas, first earl of Angus, who was the father of Margaret Douglas.

Answer 2

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

Margaret was born at Harbottle Castle in Northumberland. Because of her nearness to the English crown, Lady Margaret Douglas was brought up chiefly at the English court in close association with the future Queen Mary I of England, who remained her fast friend throughout life. She was high in the favour of her uncle, King Henry VIII of England, but was twice disgraced; first for an attachment to Lord Thomas Howard, who was imprisoned because of his misalliance with Margaret, and died in the Tower of London in 1537, and again in 1541 for a similar affair with Thomas Howard's half-nephew Charles Howard, the half-brother of Queen Catherine Howard.

In 1544 she married a Scottish exile, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516-1571), who was regent of Scotland in 1570-1571. During Mary's reign, the Countess of Lennox had rooms in Westminster Palace; but on the accession of Queen Elizabeth I, she moved to Yorkshire, where her home at Temple Newsam became a centre for Roman Catholic intrigue. She succeeded in marrying off her son, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, to his cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, thus uniting their claims to the English throne.

So, he was her uncle.