A Place in Time

I guess the reason I enjoy this so much is because I am sort of a history nut. Even as a child I enjoyed reading anything to do with history and since we do have Indian blood in us I read everything I could get my hands on. Much of what I found on Cody and Courtney's line has been through their granny Doris's line and even then mainly from her great grandmother. I have yet to completely write the majority of it because their line intertwines so much with Cheryl's. As late as the early 1500's we find them still on the throne in Scotland with King James IV and still in the courts as a Lady in Waiting for Mary Queen of Scots. Their 17th great grandmother Janet Stewart was the daughter of King James IV by one of his mistresses, thereby the half sister of Mary and one of the guardians of the infant queen and her daughter Mary Fleming being one of the "Four Mary's"

Lady Janet Stewart has been argued to have been the daughter of Isabel Buchan but sources claim that it was Isabel's sister who was also one of Jame's mistresses who was Janet's mother. Janet was a brief mistress to King Henry II of France, after the death of her husband Malcolm Fleming, while there with the young Queen Mary. Your direct line continues through their son John Fleming, the 5th Lord Fleming. His sister Mary who was one of the Four Mary's who traveled with the young Mary, Queen of Scots to France when she was 5 years old, where she would remain for 13 years. Mary Flemings future husband Sir William Maitland was also Queen Mary's secretary of State.

Janet's affair with King Henry produced an ilegitimate son who would later be legitimized and become grand prieur de France.

The end result of course was that Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded by her cousin Elizabeth I, by the direction of her staff. Of course Elizabeth is also related to Cody and Courtney as a cousin.

While Lady Janet's line goes back to Robert the Bruce and the Plantagenet lines her grandaughter married William Bruce which also goes back to Robert's line and four generations later they would marry into the Wallace line ultimately going back to William Wallaces father making him an Uncle who served with Robert "the Bruce" made popular by the movie Braveheart.