What is Mary Queen of scots importance?

Answer 1

Wow.

Her importance has everything to do with her being a female reigning monarch. Her policies were not all that red hot. In fact, she was a pretty hands off monarch.

She became queen within the first week of her life, and she was married off to the Dauphin of France at a young age and was raised in the French Court.

She was widowed young, too, and then returned home to Scotland.

Most of her life was locked in a struggle with her Protestant Lords and the Queen of England. Mary was very much under the control of Elizabeth and sought any way possible to escape it and still have Elizabeth verify her claim to the English throne upon Elizabeth's death.

Eventually, the death of Mary's second husband and her mysterious elopement with the man likely responsible for his death led to Mary fleeing the country and seeking the protection of Elizabeth, who kept her a prisoner for the rest of her days.

She then spent forever trying to overthrow Elizabeth and establish a Catholic monarch on the English throne. She failed, and ended up losing her head in a decision that Elizabeth spent years delaying and putting off.

(Her son, a Protestant, did inherit the throne from Elizabeth, as a sort of reward for his not making a fuss about the English killing the mother he barely knew.)

Answer 2

In what context?

If in the Scottish contest she was an heir to the Scottish throne.

If in an English context by her relationship with Henry Tudor was in line for the throne of England after Elizabeth's death.

The problem for both countries is that both are Protestant and England had had Mary Tudor, a catholic, whose followers had burnt Protestants at the stake. the fact that the people of England did not trust the Pope meant that the efforts to have her killed were many and ended in her death.

As an aside her son, whom she had to leave in Scotland was brought up as a Protestant and refused to help her, eventually he became James 1st of England 6th of Scotland.

Answer 3

Catholics wanted her to be queen of england during elizabeth 1's reign. She was queen of scotland instead. Lots of agro over the whole thing. Usual protestant catholic fiasco. She had some right to the throne, but so did liz. She's demonized a fair bit by protestant writers of the time.

Answer 4

I hate to state the obvious, but... She was the last Scottish Queen, Queen Elizabeth the I's cousin.

Answer 5

Shes the mother of James the 6th of Scotland and 1st of England. She was the mother of the first Stuart King of Great Britain that makes her pretty important dont you think.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

She was the mother of the first King to genuinely unite the crowns of England and Scotland, and it was her ancestors that ruled after Elizabeth I.

Answer 8

She got to the position thorugh inheritance from what I understand.. check out my source for more information.

Answer 9

Mary Stuart was a queen of Scotland and queen of France who was executed by the queen of England.

Mary was born on 8th December 1542 at Linlithgow Palace, Lothian, the only child of James V of Scots, who was on his death bed with pneumonia at the time. When he heard that his child was a girl, he cursed “The devil go with it! It came with a lass and it will pass with a lass”, referring to the house of Stuart, which he now presumed would become extinct. James was entirely wrong. The Stuarts would continue not only as monarchs of Scotland, but of England too. James died six days later, leaving Mary as Queen of Scots.

Mary’s mother, the domineering Mary of Guise, then ruled Scotland as Regent, while the young queen was packed off to France, where she received an extensive education in languages, music and dancing, and, at the age of 16, married Francis, eldest son of the King of France. This was a political match, aimed at bringing about a union of France and Scotland, which would hopefully restrain and even dominate England. On the death of the French king, Francis and Mary took the throne of France, but alas the young king died suddenly, leaving Mary a widow at the age of 18.

On her return to Scotland in 1561, Mary rapidly discovered that her formal and delicate education at the French Court had ill equipped her for the brutal reality of Scottish politics. Moreover, to her chagrin, Scotland had undergone a Protestant Reformation, leaving the young Catholic queen isolated in a Calvinist environment. Mary enlisted the help of her half brother, James earl of Moray, one of the illegitimate sons of her father James V, to run the kingdom on her behalf.

Affairs ran smoothly until, Mary was introduced to her cousin, Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley, with whom she immediately fell in love and married hastily. Darnley was vain and arrogant and did nothing to reconcile the feuding Scottish nobles. He was jealous of Mary, fearing that she was having an affair with her secretary, Rizzio. In a fit of rage, Darnley had Rizzio murdered before Mary’s own eyes. The birth of a son James did nothing to reconcile the couple, and Mary now looked for an end to the marriage.

The events of the next year are disputed by historians. What is certain is that Mary became involved with James Hepburn, earl of Boswell. No one can be certain if this was an adulterous liaison, but there is evidence that Mary was seeking to divorce Darnley. There is also evidence that Darnley was seeking to proclaim himself king and dispose of Mary. On February 9th 1567, the house where Darnley was staying was wrecked by a massive explosion and all inside were killed. Some say that Mary had the gunpowder planted to kill Darnley. Some say that dissident nobles plotted to kill Darnley. Other say that Darnley was attempting to set a trap for Mary and blew himself up in the process.

Suspicion fell on Mary when, three months later, she married Bothwell, who proved to be even more vain and dismissive to the nobles than Darnley had been. The nobles had had enough and imprisoned Mary on an island in Loch Levan and formally deposed her, placing her one year old son James VI of Scots on the throne with Moray as Regent. Mary did have some supporters, who sprung her from jail and tried to regain the throne, but were decisively defeated at the Battle of Langside. Mary fled to England to seek help from her cousin, Elizabeth I.

Elizabeth gave a cautious welcome to her cousin but, fearing that Mary would plot against her, had her confined in a secure but quite congenial prison, Fotheringhay Castle. Mary was in prison for nearly twenty years. At first, she continually pleaded with Elizabeth to release her. Then she took to plotting against her. Mary continually sent out secret coded messages, which Elizabeth’s spies had managed to decode. In 1586, there was a plot against Elizabeth’s life, and although Mary could not be directly implicated, Elizabeth had to have her executed.

Mary met her death by beheading on 8th February 1587, in Fotheringhay Castle. It took three stokes of the axe for her head to be severed. When Mary’s son James VI of Scots came to the throne of England as James I, he had his mother reburied in Westminster Abbey under a superb monument. James had Fotheringhay Castle demolished, but the stone stairway down which Mary walked to her execution was taken and re-erected in a nearby inn [The Talbot Hotel, New Street, Oundle, Near Peterborough, PE8 4EA]. It is said that the hotel is haunted by Mary’s ghost, which walks down the stairway at dead of night.

Answer 10

She was a catholic.