caption death_date death_place religion birth_place nationality buried parents birth_date spouse home known_for image article_title name death_cause
lady arbella in her later years 25 september 1615 tower of london protestant nottinghamshire or hackney english westminster abbey elizabeth cavendish charles stuart , 1st earl of lennox 1575 william seymour , 2nd duke of somerset . hardwick hall from childhood to adulthood tower of london claimant to the english throne lady arabella stuart.jpg lady arbella stuart
 lady arbella stuart unspecified chronic illness and malnutrition
lady arbella stuart

lady arbella stuart -lrb- or `` arabella '' and/or `` stewart '' -rrb- -lrb- 1575 -- 25 september 1615 -rrb- was a noblewoman who was for some time considered a possible successor to queen elizabeth i of england .
born in england , arbella stuart was the only child of charles stuart , 1st earl of lennox -lrb- of the third creation -rrb- , by his marriage to elizabeth cavendish .
she was a grandchild of matthew stewart , 4th earl of lennox -lrb- of the second creation -rrb- and lady margaret douglas , who was in turn the daughter of archibald douglas , 6th earl of angus , and of queen margaret tudor , the widow of james iv of scotland .
arbella was therefore a great-great-granddaughter of henry vii of england and in line to the english throne , although she did not herself aspire to it .
her paternal grandparents , the 4th earl of lennox and margaret douglas , had two sons : arbella 's father charles and his older brother henry stuart , lord darnley , who became the second husband of mary , queen of scots , and the father of arbella 's cousin james vi and i of scotland , england and ireland .
her maternal grandparents were sir william cavendish and elizabeth talbot , countess of shrewsbury , nowadays better known as `` bess of hardwick '' .
in her final days as a prisoner in the tower of london , arbella beauchamp -lrb- her married name -rrb- , refusing to eat , fell ill , and died on 25 september 1615 .
she was buried in westminster abbey on 29 september 1615 .
in the 19th century , during a search for the tomb of james i , arbella 's lead coffin was found in the vault of mary , queen of scots , placed directly on top of that of the scots queen .
