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Claim to the English throne
Under the ordinary laws of succession, Mary was next in line to the English throne after her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, who was childless. In the eyes of many Catholics Elizabeth was illegitimate, making Mary the true heir.
The anti-Catholic Act of Settlement was not passed until 1701, but the last will and testament of Henry VIII had excluded the Stuarts from succeeding to the English throne. Mary's troubles were still further increased by the Huguenot rising in France, called le tumulte d'Amboise (March 6–March 17, 1560), making it impossible for the French to succour Mary's side in Scotland. The question of the succession was therefore a real one.
François died on December 5, 1560. Mary's mother-in-law, Catherine de Medici, became regent for the late king's brother Charles IX, who inherited the French throne. Under the terms of the Treaty of Edinburgh, signed by Mary's representatives on July 6, 1560 following the death of Marie of Guise, France undertook to withdraw troops from Scotland and recognise Elizabeth's right to rule England. The seventeen-year-old Mary, still in France, refused to ratify the treaty.
Ancestors
| Mary I of Scotland | Father: James V of Scotland | Paternal Grandfather: James IV of Scotland | Paternal Great-grandfather: James III of Scotland |
| Paternal Great-grandmother: Margaret of Denmark | |||
| Paternal Grandmother: Margaret Tudor | Paternal Great-grandfather: Henry VII of England | ||
| Paternal Great-grandmother: Elizabeth of York | |||
| Mother: Marie de Guise | Maternal Grandfather: Claude, Duke of Guise | Maternal Great-grandfather: René II, Duke of Lorraine | |
| Maternal Great-grandmother: Phillipa of Guelders | |||
| Maternal Grandmother: Antoinette de Bourbon | Maternal Great-grandfather: François, Count of Vendôme | ||
| Maternal Great-grandmother: Marie de Luxembourg |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_queen_of_scots
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