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The Oxford Companion to Music
...Mary, Queen of Scots . Opera in three acts by Musgrave to her own libretto after Amalia Elguera's play Moray (Edinburgh, 1977...
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The Oxford Companion to the Brontes
...Mary Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart) ( 1542–87 ) fascinated the young Brontës, especially Charlotte who modelled several of her heroines on this ill-fated historical character. She features in much of Sir Walter Scott 's work, such as his novel The Abbot , and especially his Tales of a Grandfather , read by the young Brontës. The daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise, she became a queen when she was a week old. At 6 she was affianced to the Dauphin, raised as a Roman Catholic in France and married first Francis II of France, then (following...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... Queen of Scots ( Mary Stewart ) ( 1542–87 ) Daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise; she married Francis II of France ( 1558 ), Lord Darnley ( 1565 ), and Bothwell ( 1567 ). Imprisoned by Elizabeth I , she was beheaded on a charge of conspiring against her life. She figures as Duessa in The Faerie Queene , and in ballads with her four attendants, the Queen's Maries . Works in which she appears include Walter Scott 's The Abbot ; a tragedy by Schiller (in which she and Elizabeth meet, as they did not in real life); James Hogg...
Mary Queen of Scots (1542–87) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... Queen of Scots ( Mary Stewart ) ( 1542–87 ) Daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise; she married Francis II of France ( 1558 ), Lord Darnley ( 1565 ), and Bothwell ( 1567 ). Imprisoned by Elizabeth I , she was beheaded on a charge of conspiring against her life. She figures as Duessa in The Faerie Queene , and in ballads with her four attendants, the Queen's Maries . She appears in Walter Scott 's The Abbot , and in a tragedy by Schiller (in which she and Elizabeth meet, as they did not in real life). James Hogg celebrated...
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–87) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...with Mary, Queen of Scots, etc. (Scot. Hist. Soc. 37; Edinburgh, 1901). G. Donaldson , All the Queen’s Men: Power and Politics in Mary Stewart’s Scotland (London, 1983). G. Donaldson , The First Trial of Mary, Queen of Scots (London, 1969). I. B. Cowan , The Enigma of Mary Stuart (London, 1971). M. Lynch (ed.), Mary Stewart: Queen in Three Kingdoms (London, 1988). S. Watkins , Mary Queen of Scots (London, 2001). J. Wormald , Mary, Queen of Scots: Politics, Passion and a Kingdom Lost (London, 2001). J. Guy , Queen of Scots: The...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
..., Queen of Scots ( 1542–87 ). Mary Stuart was crowned Queen in 1543 . She went to France for her education and in 1558 she married the Dauphin . After his death she returned to Scotland in 1561 . Here nationalist hatred of the pro-French Guise regime had combined with Protestant agitation led by J. Knox to establish a Protestant-led government. Mary displayed no understanding of her kingdom and dissipated the reserves of loyalty among her subjects. In 1565 she married Lord Darnley , by whom she became the mother of the future James I (VI of...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
..., Queen of Scots , or Mary Stuart ( 1542–87 ), Queen of Scotland and France. Daughter of James V and Mary of Lorraine , she came to the throne at one week old. An early betrothal to the future Edward VI came to nothing, and an alliance with France was instead sought, through a marriage with the future Francis II in 1558 . As a descendant of Henry VII , through his daughter's marriage to James IV of Scotland, Mary had a claim on the English throne which in Catholic eyes was stronger than that of Elizabeth , whose legitimacy they did not...
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World Encyclopedia
..., Queen of Scots ( 1542–87 ) Daughter of James V , she succeeded him as queen when one week old. Mary was sent to France aged six, and married the future Francis II of France in 1558 . On his death in 1560 she returned to Scotland, where, as a Catholic, she came into conflict with Protestant reformers. Her marriage to Henry Stuart ( Lord Darnley ) was also resented and soon broke down. After Darnley's murder ( 1567 ), she married Lord Bothwell , possibly her husband's murderer, which alienated her remaining supporters. Following a rebellion of...
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The Kings and Queens of Britain (2 ed.)
..., queen of Scots , b. 7 Dec. 1542 , da. of James V and Mary of Guise ; acc. 14 Dec. 1542 , abdic. 24 July 1567 ; m. (1) Francis, dauphin of France , 24 Apr. 1558 ; (2) Henry Stewart , Lord Darnley , 29 July 1565 ; (3) James Hepburn, earl of Bothwell , 15 May 1567 ; d. Fotheringhay, 8 Feb. 1587 ; bur. Peterborough, rebur. Westminster abbey. Mary, queen of Scots , continues to be the most heavily romanticized of the Stewart monarchs. On the thrones of Scotland and France, and with a strong claim to that of England, her vicissitudes were shaped...
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A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
..., Queen of Scots ( 1542–87 ) Queen of Scotland ( 1542–67 ), the daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise . She was betrothed to the future Edward VI of England in 1543 but Cardinal Beaton’s veto of the marriage led to war with the English, and the Scottish defeat at Pinkie ( 1547 ). Mary was then sent to the French court, where she received a Catholic upbringing under the supervision of her Guise uncles. She married the dauphin Francis ( 1558 ), who succeeded to the French throne in 1559 and died in 1560 . By 1561 she had returned...
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The Oxford Companion to Scottish History
...some of Mary's Catholic supporters. The fact that he was married, and a Catholic annulment quickly arranged, added the whiff of scandal. The charisma of Mary, Queen of Scots , surrounded by a glittering, Renaissance royal court ( see culture: 4 ), was suddenly dented. Rumours of a rape, a pregnancy, and even the still‐birth of twins swirled about the courts of Europe. Even the pope condemned her. Yet the precise circumstances of Mary's fall and the emergence of a coalition of Catholic and Protestant nobles against her, which confronted Mary and...
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Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (4 ed.)
...03QueenofScots Mary , Queen of Scots 1542 – 87 Scottish monarch , Queen 1542–67 Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England. to the commissioners appointed to try her at Fotheringhay, 13 October 1586 Antonia Fraser Mary Queen of Scots (1969) ch. 25 Look to your consciences theatre of the world En ma fin git mon commencement. In my end is my beginning. motto embroidered with an emblem of her mother, Mary of Guise, quoted in a letter from William Drummond of Hawthornden to Ben Jonson in...
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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...03Queen0of0Scots Mary , Queen of Scots 1542 – 87 Scottish monarch , Queen 1542–67; daughter of james v and mother of james i ; as a prisoner in England and a claimant to the throne she became a focus of Catholic plots and was eventually executed . On Mary: see elizabeth i , gray , james v Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England. to the commissioners appointed to try her at Fotheringhay, 13 October 1586 Antonia Fraser Mary Queen of Scots (1969) ch. 25 Look to your consciences...
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Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...0QueenofScots Mary , Queen of Scots 1542 – 87 Scottish monarch , Queen 1542–67 En ma fin git mon commencement. In my end is my beginning. motto embroidered with an emblem of her mother, Mary of Guise, and quoted in a letter from William Drummond of Hawthornden to Ben Jonson in 1619; see Eliot In my end is my beginning In my end is my ...
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Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...0QueenofScots999 Mary, Queen of Scots 1542–87 The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sow. on Mary Queen of Scots Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603 English monarch , Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 George Puttenham (ed.) The Art of English Poesie (1589) bk. 3, ch. 20 daughter of debate daughter of debate discord doth...
