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Question

Why was Mary Queen of Scotland executed in 1587?

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Answer 1

Mary I Queen of Scot was put on trial for treason by a court of about 40 noblemen, including Catholics, after being implicated in the Babington Plot and after having allegedly sanctioned the attempted assassination of Elizabeth. She drew attention to the fact that she was denied the opportunity of reviewing the evidence or her papers that had been removed from her, that she had been denied access to legal counsel and that she had never been an English subject and thus could not be convicted of treason.

There are also strong evidence to suggest that the Queen's privy council members felt threatened by Mary and her marriage to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, both of whom are claimants to the English throne, being direct descendants of Margaret Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII. Their children would inherit both parents' claims, and thus, be next in line for the English throne. Under the ordinary laws of succession, Mary was next in line to the English throne after her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, who was childless. In the eyes of many Catholics Elizabeth was illegitimate, making Mary the true heir. The government simply did not want another Catholic Queen Mary to rule, who was determined to keep its Roman Catholic faith. Therefore, she was a threat and the government would glady try to acuse her of treason and have her executed for good.

Mary was ultimately convicted of treason, and was sentenced to beheading at Fotheringay Castle, Northamptonshire on February 8, 1587. She had spent the last hours of her life in prayer and also writing letters and her will. She expressed a request that her servants should be released. She also requested that she should be buried in France.

Answer 2

Mary Queen of Scotland fled to England after she was chased out of Scotland by her own people: she was a devout Catholic in a hardcore protestant country. Her husband was rude and arrogant to her and was demanding for her power. A team of extremist support blew up his house killing him and the Scottish blamed Mary and fled for her life. She was raped and married her rapist (a rumour) and then the Lords forced her to abdicate to her one-year-old son!
On returning to England she was tried and found not guilty for the murder of her first husband. Eventually, many people who hated her framed her of treason and eventually her cousin Queen Elizabeth was forced to execute her.

Answer 3

Return with me to the thrilling days of yesteryear that will make the saga of Charles and Di pale in comparison. After the death of Mary Stuart's first husband, the sickly French King Francois II, the 17-year-old widow returns to Scotland after spending her childhood since the age of five in the tres chic French court. In her absence, John Knox has converted the once Roman Catholic Scottish nation (or at least the Lowland part of it) to dour Presbyterianism. Knox complains that Mary parties too much and dresses extravagently. Mary and her fellow Scots definitely don't understand each other.

Impetuous Mary falls in love and marries Lord Darnley, Henry Stuart, a first cousin and fellow descendant of Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, a union that would give any child the pair produced a double claim to the English throne, but othewise a poor choice for a husband. Darnley, an English subject, impregnates Mary but becomes jealous of her Italian secretary, David Riccio, whom he kills. Darnley, in turn, is killed by a gun-powder explosion, or possibly strangled after it, most probably by James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, soon to be husband number three. Meanwhile Mary has given birth to a son, the future James VI or I, depending upon whether a Scottish or an English historian is doing the counting.

Returning from visiting her week-old son, Mary is abducted by Bothwell, who subsequently rapes and marries her. During this period of time, she also miscarriages twins. Bothwell is soon, however, acquitted of Darnley's murder in a mock trial. Meanwhile, the nobles of Scotland led by her illegitimate half-brother, James Stewart (not Stuart), Earl of Moray, have turned against the Queen. Mary flees from her Protestant opponents, raises an army, and subsequently is defeated at Langside in May 1568.

Mary now seeks refuge South of the Scottish border; at which point, Elizabeth orders an inquiry as to whether Mary had murdered Darnley, but this doesn't have anything to do with her trial for treason and eventual beheading other than to keep her in England. Mary is falsely implicated by forged casket letters. Even so, Elizabeth doesn't want to convict Mary of murder, so she finds herself imprisoned by Elizabeth for 18 years. The two correspond, but they never meet.

Unfortunately, for Mary, English Roman Catholics see Mary as the legal heir to the Tudor throne instead of Elizabeth, and in time, the Scottish queen becomes a liability Elizabeth can't continue to keep imprisoned. Mary is implicated in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth that historians now believe was possibly fictitious or undertaken without Mary's knowledge, and Mary's English captors try her without legal counsel at which time she is also denied the opportunity of reviewing the evidence. Moreover, Mary points out that she can't be tried for treason because she isn't an English subject. Nevertheless, 40 English nobles convict Mary of treason, and she is beheaded on February 8, 1587 at age 44. Do you smell a mini-series or a really long-running soap opera?

Moral of the story: Best avoid being a ruling queen during the 16th century unless you forego marriage entirely, or else marry a king to whom you can be consort, or as Catherine de Medici, Mary's first mother-in-law would have pointed out, a queen acting as regent for an underage child fares much better.

Answer 4

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