History Experts, I Need Your Help! Ten Points to First Correct Answer!?!?

Question

Our professor gave us an "easy" extra credit activity:

"Identify the linchpin ancestress who is the bridge between the medieval dynasties of Britain and the modern dynasties of the Stuarts, Hanoverians, and Windsors." Provide a brief autobiography"

I have exhausted all my textbooks! Who is she!?!? Help please!!!

Answer 1

Your answer is Margaret Tudor (elder sister of King Henry VIII of England, and wife of King James IV of Scotland).

Through her mother, Elizabeth of York (daughter of Edward IV), Margaret was descended from the medieval Plantagenet and Angevin kings of England. She was also the linchpin ancestress of the modern royal dynasties through her great grandson, King James I and VI of England and Scotland, the founder of the Stewart Dynasty in England and unifier of the crowns of England and Scotland.

All of Margaret Tudor's siblings (with the exception of her younger sister, Mary, who married down the social ladder) had no grandchildren (and therefore, no descendants). Margaret's line of descendants act as the crucial bridge between the medieval and modern royal houses.

Here is a direct lineal chart. It just shows where Margaret acts as a bridge between the medieval and modern dynasties:

Medieval Dynasties
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Edward IV of England
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Elizabeth of York
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Margaret Tudor
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James V of Scotland
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Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots
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James I and VI of England and Scotland
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Modern royal families

You can try Wikipedia or Google for a more in depth family tree.

Hope this helped,
Peace.

Answer 2

All I could find is that it is NOT a particular female but a maternal female that has left a maternal one. Mothers are not just females with children; they differ from nonmothers. "Pregnancy and motherhood," Hrdy wrote, "forever change a woman" (1999, 95). Motherhood, however, does not imply that one becomes an ancestress. An ancestress is a dynast; she is a woman who lived and reproduced and left a lineage of descendants influenced by her strategies. An ancestress strategy is long term, aimed not just at personal survival or procreation but also at using social strategies to promote the survival, reproduction, and social success of that offspring, its offspring, and their descendants.

Answer 3

Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots.The daughter of Henry the seventh, sister to Henry the eighth, she was married to king James the fourth of Scotland by whom she had one son, James the fifth who fathered Mary Queen of Scots, the mother of James the sixth of Scotland and First of England.She was also, through her second marriage,grandmother to Lord Darnley who married her Granddaughter Mary Queen of Scots and was the father of James the sixth/ first.
Another candidate would be the wife of Henry the first who married Matilda of Scotland, with whom he had one child who survived him, the empress Matilda who never ruled in England but whose son, Henry Plantagenet did become king ( Richard the firsts father ); but as you have been asked who united the medieval dynasties with the Stuarts, et cetera, the answer should be a Tudor princess rather than a Plantagenet queen.

Answer 4

If we're talking about the link between the ancient line and the modern lines, we're talking about someone who wasn't a mother, but a cousin.

Her grandmother was the descendant of John of Gaunt, son of Edward III the Plantagenet. Her cousin was the former Queen of France, then Queen of Scotland, and mother of James VI of Scotland.

Elizabeth I of England, last Tudor monarch, whose crown passed to her cousin James Stuart, James VI of Scotland and James I of England. James' father had been Lord Darnley, a distant descendant of Tudor blood.

And here is a link to help you with your autobiography

Answer 5

Two of the previous posters are correct - you're looking for Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII's sister.

Answer 6

Here is the help you need: http://www.reformation.org/hanoverian-dynasty.html

Answer 7

Current Queen of England...come on think! think! think! (it isnt her but that's a good start)....