Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne

Robert Bruce Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne (18 January 1602 – 27 May 1602) was the fifth child of James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark. He was born at Dunfermline Palace, Fife. On 2 May 1602 he was created Duke of Kintyre and Lorne, Marquess of Wigton, Earl of Carrick and Lord of Annandale. He died at Dunfermline Palace on 27 May 1602 and was buried at Holyrood Abbey.[1]

Robert lived at Dunfermline Palace, a converted monastery

Robert
Duke of Kintyre and Lorne
Robert, Duke of Kintyre in a 1625 engraving by James Webster
Born	18 January 1602 Dunfermline Palace, Fife, Scotland
Died	(1602-05-27)27 May 1602 (aged 4 months 9 days) Dunfermline Palace, Fife, Scotland
Burial	Holyrood Abbey
Full name Robert Bruce Stuart
House	Stuart
Father	James VI
Mother	Anne of Denmark

Scottish and English Royalty
House of Stuart
James VI and I
Children Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine Princess Margaret Charles I Prince Robert, Duke of Kintyre Princess Mary Princess Sophia

His older siblings included Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, Princess Elizabeth, and Prince Charles.

Robert's birth was attended by the physicians Martin Schöner and John Naysmyth and the midwife Janet Kinloch. James VI gave Anne of Denmark a gift of a pointed diamond. Robert's nurse Isobel Colt was dressed in black velvet. On 2 May 1602 Robert was carried from Dunfermline Palace into the Abbey by the Duke of Lennox on a large purple cushion for his baptism. His name and titles were proclaimed by trumpeters at the windows of the abbey, and the celebrations involved a tournament of "running at ring" which damaged a cornfield. The sum of £66-13s-4d Scots was thrown into the crowd as largesse. On the previous day an English Catholic, Humphrey Dethick, either the son of a London baker or from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, killed one of the guests, claiming to be acting to fulfil a prophecy told to him in Spain.[2]

Margaret Stewart, Mistress of Ochiltree, the senior lady in waiting, was in charge of Robert's care.[3] Marion Hepburn was appointed to rock Robert's cradle.[4] Isobel Colt, the nurse, was the wife of Patrick Smith, an Edinburgh lawyer and writer to the signet. She was dismissed shortly before the death of Duke Robert, as it was thought a new nurse would improve his health. Isobel was given £200 Scots as a reward for her service by the English courtier Roger Aston on 25 May. The payment was witnessed by John Buchanan, who later married Margaret Hartsyde, a servant of the queen.[5]

When Robert was ill and Princess Elizabeth at Linlithgow Palace was sick with the measles, Anne of Denmark was "sorrowful and more than ever she was before", but she told James, "If it please God to take one of our children, He will send us another, for I feel myself with child."[6]