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Mary of Guelders

Queen consort and regent of Scotland

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Mary of Guelders was Queen of Scots by marriage to King James II. She ruled as regent of Scotland from 1460 to 1463.

Editorial summary

“Mary of Guelders” enters the record as queen consort and regent of Scotland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mary, Guelders and Queen can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1460, 1463—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mary, Guelders and Queen.
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Why this record matters

“Mary of Guelders” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mary, Guelders and Queen provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1460 and 1463.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Mary of Guelders”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Mary of Guelders” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.