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Mary, Queen of Scots

Linlithgow, Scotland, 1542 - 1587, Fotheringhay, England

BiographyMary, byname Mary, Queen of Scots, original name Mary Stuart or Mary Stewart, (born December 8, 1542, Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland—died February 8, 1587, Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England), queen of Scotland (1542–67) and queen consort of France (1559–60). Her unwise marital and political actions provoked rebellion among the Scottish nobles, forcing her to flee to England, where she was eventually beheaded as a Roman Catholic threat to the English throne.
Source: Britannica.com accessed 2/1/2022 by A. Chaparro

Of the House of Stuart; only child of King James V of Scotland and his French wife, Mary of Guise. she was queen of Scotland (1542-1567) and queen consort of France (1559-1560). By her remarkable beauty and her taste for music and poetry, Mary summed up the contemporary ideal of the Renaissance princess. She married the boy Francis, eldest son of Henry and Catherine, in April 1558. Her second marriage was to second marriage in July 1565 to her cousin Henry Stewart (Stuart), earl of Darnley, son of Matthew Stewart, 4th earl of Lennox.
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500220567; accessed E. Reluga 5/17/2023

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