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James Hepburn, IV conte di Bothwell, è considerato uno dei personaggi più controversi della storia scozzese. La sua vita e le sue azioni hanno suscitato grande interesse e dibattito tra gli storici.
12 dic 2018 · James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. The contents of the caskets were salacious and explosive. The marriage contracts included a promise on Mary’s part to marry Bothwell and a contract signed...
- Henry, Lord Darnley
- The Earl of Bothwell
- The Earl of Moray
- William Cecil
- Elizabeth I
- And Finally… Mary Herself
Mary’s second husband led a coup against her When, in 1564, Elizabeth I offered Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester to Mary as a husband, she was horrified by the idea. Dudley was a traitor’s son, believed to be Elizabeth’s lover, and gossip across Europe suggested that he had an involvement in the suspicious death of his own wife. To top it off, Eliz...
Husband number three ambushed and raped her Mary saw the Scottish nobleman James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney and 4th Earl of Bothwell, as a friend. He had befriended her while she was in France, visiting in his capacity as Lord High Admiral, and helped to organise her return back to Scotland when she was 18. Most significant was the fact that he wa...
Mary’s half-brother turned out to be her greatest enemy On the face of it, Mary’s half-brother was her greatest supporter. He had accompanied her to France when she was five, had been a long-term advisor and, when Mary was first widowed, had counselled her to return to Scotland to take the throne. But Moray’s motives were dubious. He wanted power f...
The English minister plotted Mary’s downfall for decades Elizabeth’s chief minister, William Cecil(1520–98), always hated Mary and wanted her off the throne. Mary was simply too Catholic for his tastes, and anyway he had no time for any other female ruler than Elizabeth. Mary was Elizabeth’s heir, unless the English queen had a child – and so she w...
When it came to the crunch, England’s queen put her own interests first How much did Elizabeth know about William Cecil’s plots against Mary? Did she know that he was paying the men around Mary to undermine and unseat her? Personally, I believe not – although Elizabeth did receive Mary’s great rival, Lord Moray, when he came to England to avoid the...
How much blame should the Queen of Scots shoulder for her own demise? Mary, Queen of Scots is often seen as the author of her own downfall. But, from the start, the odds were stacked against her. She was manipulated, she was subjected to repeated mutinies, she was assaulted and she was imprisoned. As I argue in my book on Elizabeth and Mary, she co...
17 feb 2011 · At the heart of the mystery lies treacherous politics of the Scottish Court, and love letters written by Mary to her secret paramour, James Hepburn, the Earl of Bothwell.
4 lug 2022 · Mary’s third and final marriage began and ended with controversy. James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell was a Scottish nobleman who was accused of Darnley’s murder, although he was later acquitted. On 24 April 1567, Bothwell, with a force of 800 men, kidnapped Mary whilst she was riding between Linlithgow and Edinburgh.
31 mar 2024 · But he was soon embroiled in a feud with the powerful but deranged earl of Arran. Having been accused by Arran of plotting to kidnap the queen, Bothwell was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle in March 1562. He escaped the following August and, after a period of detention in England, reached France in September 1564.
Jean Gordon. Maria I di Scozia. James Hepburn, I duca di Orkney e marchese di Fife, ma più noto col titolo ereditario di IV conte di Bothwell o semplicemente come Bothwell ( Edimburgo, 1534 circa – Dragsholm, 14 aprile 1578 ), fu lord grand'ammiraglio di Scozia e re consorte di Scozia, come terzo marito della regina Maria Stuarda .
