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Lord Bothwell appears to have met Queen Mary when he visited the French Court in the autumn of 1560, after he left Anna Rustung in Flanders.He was kindly received by the Queen and her husband, King Francis II, and, as he himself put it: "The Queen recompensed me more liberally and honourably than I had deserved" – receiving 600 Crowns and the post and salary of gentleman of the French King's ...
The reign of Queen Mary. On 6 September 1561 Bothwell became a member of Mary's new privy council. Mary tried to end his feud with Arran by obliging them to keep the peace, but trouble flared up again when Bothwell and his brother-in-law, Lord John Stewart, forced their way into the house where Arran's mistress lived.
La leggenda dice che "Satana stesso" abbia partecipato qui ad un rituale nel 1590, anche se è più probabile che Satana fosse una metafora per rappresentare Francis Stewart, V conte di Bothwell. Durante il XVI secolo almeno 70 persone furono implicate nei processi alle streghe, e gli eventi ispirarono opere come Tam o' Shanter di Robert Burns e "Il Tredicesimo Membro" di Mollie Hunter.
Same text as Pitcairn v I, part II, page 259-260 J.PROC.S.R.O. LIST; narration of later developments concerning the Earl of Bothwell RPC v5, p. 94 note 1. APS Vol 3, pp 537-8.
Francis Bothwell of Edinburgh, Lord of Session, was a Scottish merchant, landowner, judge and politician.As a university graduate, he was called Master Francis Bothwell, or "Dominus" in Latin documents; however, this has been misunderstood by some writers, so he is occasionally, inaccurately, referred to as "Sir" Francis Bothwell.
Francis Stewart, fifth earl Bothwell, was the grandson of king James V, nephew of Mary, queen of Scots and cousin of James VI. In the late 1570's, he acquired the earldom of Bothwell and, with it, a national and local position to rival his royal heritage.
Giacomo Stuart, Conte di Moray (1531 – Linlithgow, 23 gennaio 1570), era il figlio naturale di re Giacomo V di Scozia e della sua amante, lady Margaret Erskine. Era il fratellastro di Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia, figlia di Giacomo V e di Maria di Guisa, e fu reggente del nipote Giacomo VI di Scozia.
