Mary Stuart Biography

In 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots was to flee to England from Scotland after her imprisonment in Scotland after a rebellion against her rule. The rebellion was sparked after she had been accused of plotting the murder of her husband. After arriving in England, she was imprisoned as she was seen as a threat to the monarch at the time, Queen Elizabeth the First. As her imprisonment lasted on, the current of nationalism grew in England (Warnicke, 168). The people of England believed the crimes that Mary had been accused of. They also believed that Mary was a treacherous women who wanted to usurp the throne of England. Ultimately, Mary was sentenced to death in 1587 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Queen of England. This conviction, and the long imprisonment, cemented the views of the English and they saw Scottish people as treacherous individuals because their queen was (Warnicke,

Mary I was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She was claimed illegitimate by her father and was forced to sign papers saying that he had never married her mother (Catherine of Aragon). Mary wasn’t allowed to see her mother and was sent away by Henry VIII. She followed the Catholic ways of her mother and became quite religious. Mary was angered that her father was turning Britain into Protestants. When her father finally died, at the age of 55, Mary tried to convince her 10-year-old brother- Edward- to

On July 29, 1565, Mary married her second husband. Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley her first cousin and the grandson of Margaret Tudor, was next in line after Mary to the English succession. This marriage united the two nearest claimants to the English throne. After a year or so, Mary began to realize that Darnley, who was both morally and mentally worthless, was not fit to be king. Although she had given him title of king, Darnley had now demanded that the crown be secured to him for life. His main reason was if Mary died without children, the Scottish crown should descend to his heirs. She refused to grant him the crown and turned to David Rizzio for comfort. David Rizzio first came as a musician to the royal court and he was quickly promoted to secretary for Mary’s French affairs. Rumors were spread that he was not just a secretary but

Mary Tudor was the most hated Queen in British history. England was complete chaos because of her. She was born on February 18, 1516, at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, England. She took the throne in 1553, when she was the first queen regnant of England and Ireland. She died at St. James Palace in London on November 17, 1558. She was the only child of King Henry VIIIn and the sister of Queen Elizabeth. She was baptized as a Catholic shortly after her birth. Mary had endured several false pregnancies and was suffering from what may have been uterine or ovarian cancer. She was unable to have children, this is why it is speculated that she chanted “I stole your baby!!” Her nickname Bloody Mary came from the number of Protestant Tudors who were executed during her reign. The

Mary Queen of Scots was executed on the 8th February 1587 after she was implicated in the Babington Plot against Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth of England did not give her explicit consent to the execution of Mary, however, Elizabeth did sign the death warrant. The execution of a sister monarch at the hands of Elizabeth I was a significant event because it had consequences that affected not only England but mainland Europe as well.

England, too, experienced political upheaval. When King Edward VII died in 1553, Protestant ministers sought to prevent his Catholic sister Mary I from succeeding him, and so crowned his cousin, Lady Jane Grey. Nine days later, however, Mary and her supporters gained power and Jane was executed. Mary sought to re-establish Catholicism through the executions of many Protestants, giving her the infamous title of "Bloody Mary." In 1558 her Protestant sister Elizabeth would succeed her, and Protestantism and stability would return to

Introduction: Provides background on Mary Queen of Scots and explains why her execution was controversial

Mary was born in Scotland at Linlithgow Palace on December 8, 1542. Her father was the king of Scotland, and her mother was from a very well known French family known as the Guise. During the time that Mary was born her father was engaged in a war away from Scotland with the king of England, who had invaded Scotland at the time. In the fights, Mary’s father was defeated, and he felt that the nobles and generals who led his army, allowed the English to win in order to betray him. The thought of this betrayal was too much for Mary’s father, and as a result his frustration and suffering started to overwhelm him. Under the severity of his suffering he slowly started to decline, and finally, right after the news of Mary’s birth reached him, he passed away. Mary never got the chance to meet her father, and her father never got the chance to meet her, and since her father only produced one child before his death, Mary automatically became queen of Scotland at just six days old. Seeing as she was too

Mary Stuart ruled Scotland and France as well as being eligible for the English throne. She was known as one of the most tragic and human queens in all British history.

Mary, had a peculiar childhood that consisted of things like gaining the throne to rule a country at a young age and almost being killed. When Mary was six days old her father died and so she became Queen of Scotland at a very young age. Due to this at the age of six years old she was handed over to the King of France. When Mary was eight “a man named Robert Stuart and purported to be an English spy was accused of attempting to poison Mary Stuart before her mother's departure” (marie-stuart.co.uk). Addition to this complicated childhood Mary was betrothed at a young age.

And yet, counties weren’t always the ones who had faced much fallout in the Middle Ages. Families of all types suffered their own kind of fallout, even royalty. And one of the main pawns whom suffered in the ordeal would be Mary Stuart, also known as the Queen of Scots. What makes her unique is the fact that she became Queen of Scots when she was just 6 days old due to her father’s death in 1542. And if that wasn’t bad enough, marriage became a big problem with her, as she was told to marry off Prince Edward of England, but eventually she did not. Instead, she went off to France and stay there at the age of 5. And by the time she returned, she was a complete outsider due to her faith and Scotland’s faith, but she eventually got everything got

Nevertheless she felt betrayed by her Protestant advisors and withdrew some of her support from the Reformed church. Her marriage with Darnley soured and she refused him the right to succeed if she died without issue. Alone and disappointed, Mary turned to her Italian secretary, David Rizzio, for comfort and advice. The Protestant lords disliked Rizzio's influence because they suspected him of being a papal agent, and Darnley openly stated that the Italian was too intimate with the Queen. On 9th March 1566 a group of Protestant lords, acting with the support of Darnley, murdered Rizzio in Mary's presence at Holyrood Palace. Mary, who was six months pregnant, survived the horrible ordeal. In Edinburgh Castle on 19th June 1566, estranged from her husband and his allies, she gave birth to a son James (later James I of England). By the end of 1566 Mary had befriended James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, and was seeking a way to dissolve her marriage with Darnley. Various schemes were concocted; it seems unlikely, however, that Mary was aware of the actual plot to eliminate her husband. On 10th February 1567

     In chapter four, Mary is looking for the support of a man who is of assured loyalty. The strongest candidate then was James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. Bothwell’s family was one of the most important in Scotland, with wide lands of their own and wider political leadership of other distance relatives. In February of 1567, Darnley was ill and staying at “the old Provost’s Lodging”. At two in the morning, an explosion demolished the lodge and Darnley was found outside, dead. Mary had visited him earlier that week for she was trying to reconcile with Darnley. She feared she was pregnant with a child and that everyone would know it could not be Darnley’s. After Darnely’s death, Bothwell abducted Mary, and they were married with protestant rites. By this, her people revolted for she “had thrown away her reputation, shown her approval of her husband’s murder, and abandoned the church of her fathers”. Even though she sacrificed her thrown for Bothwell, the marriage brought her no happiness. Before the marriage even took place, opposition was being formed

It was important to them that she got married and secured an heir for the throne and a strong king to rule beside her. However, Elizabeth was not ready for marriage and didn’t succumb to their pressure. Peter Wentworth went as far as asking her to name an heir but she didn’t. In 1572, the Catholic plot to murder Elizabeth was discovered and Mary queen of Scots was traced back to it. The MP’s urged Elizabeth to have her executed but Elizabeth was in two minds about the situation involving her cousin.

Eventually, she reconciled with Elizabeth and she became the next heir to England after Mary’s death. Mary suffered many terrible misfortunes over her lifetime from her parent’s divorce to her belief she was pregnant twice. One of the