i need to do a history project on mary, queen of scots any help & is there any good websites [i mainly want to know abount the murders she could have been apart of & when she was captued]
2007-01-31 05:00:34 · 10 answers · asked by jo 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (r. 1542-67)
Born at Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian on 8 December 1542, Mary became Queen of Scots when she was six days old.
Her claims to the throne of England were almost as strong as her claims to the Scottish throne. As Henry VII of England's great-granddaughter, Mary was next in line to the English throne, after Henry VIII's children.
Given her youth and sex, the Scottish nobility decided that they must make peace with England, and they agreed that she should marry Henry VIII's son, the future Edward VI.
No sooner had the treaty been arranged, however, than Catholics opposed to the plan took the young Mary to Stirling Castle and, to Henry's fury, they broke the match, preferring to return to Scotland's traditional alliance with France.
Henry thereupon ordered the savage series of raids into Scotland known as 'The Rough Wooing'. His army set fire to the Abbey of Holyroodhouse where James V was buried, burned crops in the Tweed Valley and set ablaze the Border abbeys of Melrose, Jedburgh and Dryburgh.
Undeterred, the Scots in 1548 betrothed Mary to the French King Henri II's heir, the Dauphin Francis, and sent her to be brought up at the French Court. It is said that the spelling of the royal family name of Stewart changed to Stuart at that time, to suit French conventional spelling.
Tall, graceful and quick-witted, Mary married the Dauphin in Paris on 24 April 1558. He succeeded to his father's throne in 1559, making Mary Queen of France as well as Scotland, but his reign was brief for he died of an ear infection in 1560.
The following year, despite the warnings of her friends, Mary decided to go back to Scotland, now an officially Protestant country after religious reforms led by John Knox.
She was a Roman Catholic, but her half-brother, Lord James Stewart, later Earl of Moray, had assured her that she would be allowed to worship as she wished and in August 1561 she returned, to an unexpectedly warm welcome from her Protestant subjects.
At first Mary ruled successfully and with moderation, advised by Lord James and William Maitland of Lethington, a subtle diplomat. However, her marriage in 1565 to her second cousin Henry, Lord Darnley (great-grandson of Henry VII) initiated a tragic series of events made worse by factious Scottish nobles.
Spoiled and petulant, Darnley became the tool of Mary's enemies and, with a group of conspirators, burst into her supper chamber, threatened the heavily pregnant queen and murdered her secretary, David Riccio, on 9 March 1566 inside the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
The birth of Mary and Darnley's son James that summer did nothing to improve their relationship, and when Darnley was murdered at Kirk o'Field, just outside the walls of Edinburgh on 10 February 1567, people suspected that she was implicated in the crime.
Her subsequent marriage three months later to the Earl of Bothwell (generally believed to be the principal murderer) brought her inevitable ruin. Her Protestant Lords rose against her and her army confronted theirs at Carberry Hill, near Edinburgh, on 15 June 1567.
She surrendered, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle, Kinross-shire and forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son. Bothwell fled to Scandinavia, where he was arrested and held prisoner until his death.
Mary escaped from Lochleven in 1568, only to be defeated at the Battle of Langside, near Glasgow, on 13 May. Fleeing south, she sought shelter in England, believing that Queen Elizabeth I would support her cause, but instead she was kept in captivity in England for 19 years.
The focus of a long series of Roman Catholic plots against Elizabeth, culminating in the Babington Plot to assassinate the English queen, led to Elizabeth's ministers demanding Mary's execution: 'so long as there is life in her, there is hope; so as they live in hope, we live in fear'.
Mary was finally executed at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire on 8 February 1587, at the age of 44.
She was buried in Peterborough Cathedral, but in 1612 her son James VI and I had her body exhumed and placed in the vault of King Henry VII's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
good website BBC,CO.UK
Good Luck!!!!!!!!
2007-01-31 05:13:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mary Queen of Scots(and France) was suspected of complicity in the murder of her husband ,Lord Darnley.He was blown up in a kirk.She was innocent of this,Lord Bothwell highly suspected(her lover)later her husband.Mary committed no murders.She was executed by her cousin Elizabeth Iwho was barren,and afraid Mary would seize the throne.She was in England 1584 to 1589 under crown protection.She had a rightful claim to the Throne.She was Catholic,her son by Darnley Protestant,Mary's son became King of England at Elizabeth's death.Mary's misfortune was having her French husband die so young.She would never have had to endure the rabid Scots
2007-01-31 07:13:09 · answer #2 · answered by Gloryana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to the Library.
(It's a big building with lots of books in it).
There is bound to be a biography of Mary Queen of Scots in there. If not, go to the reference section and look her up in an encyclopedia.
I am a little sarcastic, but that's the best thing you can do.
2007-01-31 05:07:21 · answer #3 · answered by efes_haze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
check history channel ,and the BBC,for documentaries
and just by putting the name in the browser you should get info on Mary Queen of Scots
2007-01-31 05:09:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only agree. Mary is a very important person in history, especially interesting (in my eyes) is her trouble with Queen Elizabeth. You can impossibly miss her if you enter her into any search machine or just look around the library.
2007-01-31 05:09:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
websites are not a good source when doing any type of scholarly work. go to the library. go to the history teacher. history teachers have always helped me get a start in the right directions.
2007-01-31 05:11:36 · answer #6 · answered by Soccer Taz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first responder is correct...you will surely learn more, which will lead to you becoming a better student, which will have the end result of you being a better person overall - if you did your own homework...
Wikipedia is a great place to start...
2007-01-31 05:08:59 · answer #7 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look her up on wikipedia.
Then go to a library.
The art of research is lost these days, it seems. I remember, back in the 1990s, when we actually had to know how to look stuff up. What happened?
2007-01-31 05:08:02 · answer #8 · answered by Brian L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
look it up for yourself
2015-06-24 09:08:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.elizabethi.org/us/queenofscots/
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/mary-queen-of-scots/
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=mary+queen+of+scots+wikipedia&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t340&x=wrt&meta=vc%3D
2007-01-31 05:08:56 · answer #10 · answered by Vixz06 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋