page_title: Margaret Winstar
hierarchical_section_title: Margaret Winstar
caption_attribution_description: Dalkeith House
context_page_description: Margaret Winstar, was a Danish or German courtier in Scotland to Anne of Denmark commemorated by the ballad "The Laird o Logie" for rescuing her imprisoned lover.
  Margaret Winstar's family background is unclear, although it has been suggested her family name was "Wenckstern" or "Venstermand". Robert Bowes noted that she was descended from a wealthy Danish family. She was a favoured courtier of Anne of Denmark, whose Scottish household included ladies in waiting and servants from Denmark and the northern states of Germany. Winstar accompanied the queen went she went out riding. The queen's favour to Margaret Winstar is evident in her wardrobe accounts; in July 1592 the queen, Winstar, and the French-born aristocrat Marie Stewart were dressed alike in green and orange costumes. Winstar is remembered because of her relationship and marriage with John Wemyss of Logie, a servant or varlet in the bedchamber of James VI of Scotland, and the daring escape she planned for him, featured in ballads and chronicles.
context_section_description: Margaret Winstar (fl. 1590-1600), was a Danish or German courtier in Scotland to Anne of Denmark commemorated by the ballad "The Laird o Logie" for rescuing her imprisoned lover.
  Margaret Winstar's family background is unclear, although it has been suggested her family name was "Wenckstern" or "Venstermand". Robert Bowes noted that she was descended from a wealthy Danish family. She was a favoured courtier of Anne of Denmark, whose Scottish household included ladies in waiting and servants from Denmark and the northern states of Germany. Winstar accompanied the queen went she went out riding. The queen's favour to Margaret Winstar is evident in her wardrobe accounts; in July 1592 the queen, Winstar, and the French-born aristocrat Marie Stewart were dressed alike in green and orange costumes. Winstar is remembered because of her relationship and marriage with John Wemyss of Logie, a servant or varlet in the bedchamber of James VI of Scotland, and the daring escape she planned for him, featured in ballads and chronicles.
caption: Margaret Winstar planned her lover's escape from Dalkeith Palace
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