| Mary
Queen of Scots
(1542-87)
Biographical
Crowned at Stirling Castle, 1543.[F76]
Claimant to the English throne.[F76]
Abducted by the Earl of Bothwell, 1567, and she later agreed to marry
him.[F76]
Captured, 1567, by a confederacy of pro-Protestant Scottish nobles who
opposed her marriage, and imprisoned her at the island fortress of Lochleven.
She was later forced to abdicate.[F76]
Escaped from Lochleven Castle, 1568, and, after her attempt to regain
the throne failed, she fled to England.[F76]
Accused of adultery and the murder of Lord Darnley, an investigation was
carried out but was inconclusive. [F76]
Kept imprisoned at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, 1569, then moved to
Coventry after her intention to marry the Duke of Norfolk was halted by
Elizabeth I.[F76]
From 1569, she plotted to dethrone Elizabeth I with the aid of the English
Catholics and the Spanish, and planned to marry the Duke of Norfolk (the
Ridolfi plot). The plot was unravelled and Norfolk was eventually executed.[F76]
Convicted of treason in 1586 after the Babington plot where she consented
in a letter to the assassination of Elizabeth I, she was executed the
following year.[F76]
Place of birth: Linlithgow Palace, Scotland[F76]
Place of first marriage: Notre Dame, Paris[F76]
Place of second marriage: Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh[F76]
Place of third marriage: Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh[F76]
Place of death: Northamptonshire[8B]
Place of burial: Peterborough Cathedral (1567), transferred to Westminster
Abbey (1606)[F76] |
