Henry Stuart, King of Scots, (7 December 1545 10 February 1567), formerly 1st Duke of Albany formerly Earl of Ross, was a King consort of Scotland. However as the Queen of England resented the fact that one of her (former) subjects had been promoted in this manner and refused to recognize his Scots titles, many of the contemporary narratives describing his life and death (those written by English agents) refer to him as Lord Darnley, his English childhood title, and it is by this incorrect appellation that he is now generally known. He was the first cousin and second husband of Mary I, Queen of Scots, and the father of her son King James VI, who also succeeded Queen Elizabeth I as King James I of England. Darnley's descendants included the Stuart monarchs as well as the illegitimate daughter of James II, Catherine Darnley (the wife of John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby )