James Stewart, Commendator of Kelso and Melrose was an illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland.
The Commendator's House at Melrose Abbey
Madeleine of Valois
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Madeleine of Valois was a French princess who briefly became Queen of Scotland in 1537 as the first wife of King James V. The marriage was arranged in accordance with the Treaty of Rouen, and they wer
James Stewart, Commendator of Kelso and Melrose
…woman of the same name who married a minor courtier of James V, Robert Gibb. James V had children with a number of mistresses before his marriages to Madeleine of France and Mary of Guise. A more well-known half-brother, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, was variously known as "Lord James", the Prior of St Andrews, the…
Portrait by Corneille de la Haye
Portrait of Madeleine misidentified as her older sister, Charlotte of Valois by Jean Clouet (c. 1522)
Madeleine (back right) with her mother and sisters, from the Book of Hours of Catherine de'Medici.
Notre-Dame de Paris and its environs, known as the Parvis, Jean Marot, 17th century