<Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Portrait </Th> <Th> Birth </Th> <Th> Marriage (s) </Th> <Th> Death </Th> <Th> Claim </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Edward Balliol 1332--1336 In opposition to David II </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1283 Son of John Balliol and Isabella de Warenne </Td> <Td> None </Td> <Td> 1367 Doncaster, Yorkshire, England </Td> <Td> Son of a former king, candidate of the English to replace the exiled David II </Td> </Tr> <P> Robert the Stewart was a grandson of Robert I by the latter's daughter, Marjorie . Having been born in 1316, he was older than his uncle, David II; consequently, he was at his accession a middle aged man, already 55, and unable to reign vigorously, a problem also faced by his son Robert III, who also ascended in middle age at 53 in 1390, and suffered lasting damage in a horse - riding accident . These two were followed by a series of regencies, caused by the youth of the succeeding five boy kings . Consequently, the Stewart era saw periods of royal inertia, during which the nobles usurped power from the crown, followed by periods of personal rule by the monarch, during which he or she would attempt to address the issues created by their own minority and the long - term effects of previous reigns . Governing Scotland became increasingly difficult, as the powerful nobility became increasingly intractable; James I's attempts to curb the disorder of the realm ended in his assassination; James III was killed in a civil war between himself and the nobility, led by his own son; when James IV, who had governed sternly and suppressed the aristocrats, died in the Battle of Flodden, his wife Margaret Tudor, who had been nominated regent for their young son James V, was unseated by noble feuding, and James V's own wife, Mary of Guise, succeeded in ruling Scotland during the regency for her young daughter Mary I only by dividing and conquering the noble factions, and by distributing French bribes with a liberal hand . Finally, Mary I, the daughter of James V, found herself unable to govern Scotland faced with the surliness of the aristocracy and the intransigence of the population, who favoured Calvinism and disapproved of her Catholicism; she was forced to abdicate, and fled to England, where she was imprisoned in various castles and manor houses for eighteen years and finally executed for treason against the English queen Elizabeth I. Upon her abdication, her son, fathered by Henry, Lord Darnley, a junior member of the Stewart family, became King as James VI . </P> <P> James VI became King of England and Ireland as James I in 1603, when his cousin Elizabeth I died; thereafter, although the two crowns of England and Scotland remained separate, the monarchy was based chiefly in England . Charles I, James's son, found himself faced with Civil War; the resultant conflict lasted eight years, and ended in his execution . The English Parliament then decreed their monarchy to be at an end; the Scots Parliament, after some deliberation, broke their links with England, and declared that Charles II, son and heir of Charles I, would become King . He ruled until 1651 when the armies of Oliver Cromwell occupied Scotland and drove him into exile . </P>

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