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James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay

21 February 1507–27 February 1508 (Age 1)
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

The Life Summary of James

When James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay was born on 21 February 1507, in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James IV King of Scotland, was 33 and his mother, Margaret Tudor Queen of Scotland, was 17. He died on 27 February 1508, in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 1, and was buried in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

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Family Time Line

James IV King of Scotland
1473–1513
Margaret Tudor Queen of Scotland
1489–1541
James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay
1507–1508
Arthur Stewart Duke of Rothesay
1509–1510
James V King of Scotland
1512–1542
Alexander Stewart Duke of Ross
1514–1516

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Name Meaning

English: nickname from Middle English duk(ke), duck, doke, dook ‘duck’ (Old English dūce), either from a perceived resemblance (perhaps a waddling gait) or from association with wild fowling. Compare Duck , Drake .English: from the Middle English personal name Duk or Duke. In northern England this is usually a pet form of Marmaduke. It may alternatively be a survival of one or more Old English personal names, though it is uncertain whether they were still current in the period of surname formation. Old English Ducc(a) is attested in placenames like Duxford (Cambridgeshire) and Duckington (Cheshire), and was perhaps interchangeable with Docc, attested in Doxey (Staffordshire) and Doxford (Northumberland). Duke could also represent Old English Deowuc (as in Deuxhill, Shropshire). A surname from Marmaduke is on record until at least 1881 and derives from the personal name Marmaduke, apparently an Anglo-Norman French pronunciation of Old Irish Maolmaedóc ‘devotee of Maedóc’; see Duckett .Americanized form of Polish Duk: nickname from dukać ‘to stammer or falter’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Possible Related Names

Dock
Doke
Duch
Duckett
Duck
Dukes

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  • Peerage - James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay

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