List of Scottish consorts
- List of Scottish consorts
:"See also: List of Scottish monarchs"
The Royal Consort of Scotland was the spouse of the Monarch of Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland was first unified as a state by Kenneth I of Scotland in 843, and ceased to exist as an independent kingdom in 1707, when it was merged with the Kingdom of England to become the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The early history of Scotland is confused and often obscure, due largely to information given by the sources of the time and after, which are often contradictory, vague, and lacking in detail. Details of the Kings prior to Malcolm III are sparse, and the status of two - Giric and Eochaid - dubious; details of their wives are almost non-existent. Thus, it is practically impossible to construct a list of consorts of Scotland prior to the accession of Macbeth, about whose wife Gruoch more is known.
House of Moray
Although a few details of earlier Queen consorts are known - for example, Duncan I was married to a woman named in one source as "Suthen" - the first Queen about whom much is known is Gruoch, a daughter of Boite mac Cináeda, himself a son of either Kenneth II or Kenneth III. Her son was Lulach; the mother of Máel Snechtai of Moray, his son, was still alive in 1078, when she was seized by Malcolm III Long-neck, but nothing else is known of her, not even if she and Lulach were married.
=House of Stewart (1371-1707) (Gælic: Stiubhart)=
Direct Line (1371-1542)
Upon the death of David II in 1371, his nephew, Robert Stewart (the son of Walter Stewart and Marjorie Bruce, herself the daughter of Robert I by his first marriage) acceded to the throne. His direct line of heirs would continue to rule until the death of his last direct descendant, James V. James left only a six-day old girl as his heir, prompting his angry exclamation, "The devil go with it! [The rule of the Stewarts] will end as it began. It came with a lass, and it will pass with a lass." In this he was wrong: Mary would marry a member of a junior branch of the Stewart family, and the line they founded would rule not only Scotland but also England and Ireland until 1714.
"For the subsequent consorts of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, see List of British consorts."
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