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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.
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
- Mary Queen of Scots and Francis II of France
- Mary Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart Lord Darnley
- Mary Queen of Scots and James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
Mary was aged just fifteen when she was married to Francis, although the pair had been betrothed ten years earlier. Francis was the eldest son of Henry II of France and Catherine de’Medici and as such, heir to the French throne at the time of the marriage.
Mary’s second husband was Henry Stuart Lord Darnley, her cousin. The wedding took place on 29 July 1565 in the chapel of Holyrood Palace. Mary, aged 22, described her 19-year-old groom as ‘the lustiest and best proportioned long man that she had seen’ but her infatuation was to be her downfall, and her initial happiness didn’t last. Within two mont...
Mary’s third and final marriage began and ended with controversy. James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwellwas 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. Telling the queen that he had kidna...
James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney and 4th Earl of Bothwell (c. 1534 – 14 April 1578), better known simply as Lord Bothwell, was a prominent Scottish nobleman. He was known for his marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots, as her third and final husband.
31 mar 2024 · James Hepburn, 4th earl of Bothwell was the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. He evidently engineered the murder of Mary’s second husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, thereby precipitating the revolt of the Scottish nobles and Mary’s flight to England, where she was imprisoned by Queen.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
12 dic 2018 · Mary ignored her cousin, and quickly remarried one of her advisers, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. It was unclear whether she married him willingly; it was rumored that he had raped her and...
