Euphemia elphinstone biography of alberta

 

Euphemia Elphinstone (or Euphame or Eupheme), lived from 11 May 1509 to some time after 1547.

She was a mistress of James V who became mother to the king's illegitimate son Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

Euphemia Elphinstone was the second daughter of Alexander Elphinstone, Lord Elphinstone, who was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field when she was four in 1513.

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Some time after 1530 she became a mistress of King James V of Scotland, who was three years older than Euphemia. The most notable outcome of this relationship was Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, the king's illegitimate son by Euphemia born in 1533.

Some sources say that Euphemia had a second illegitimate child by the king, which died in infancy. If so it suggests tha