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5 giorni fa · Perhaps the most famous episode in Hailes Castle‘s history came in 1567, when Mary Queen of Scots stayed here as a guest of her third husband, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. Mary had married Bothwell just a few months after the murder of her previous husband, Lord Darnley, in which Bothwell was heavily implicated.
5 giorni fa · Bothwell Under Siege. As the Wars of Independence raged across Scotland, Bothwell Castle found itself at the center of the storm. Its strategic location on the River Clyde, just southeast of Glasgow, made it a key prize for both the Scots and the English. In 1301, Edward I himself laid siege to the castle with a massive army of nearly 7,000 men ...
3 giorni fa · Probably the Earl of Bothwell (Patrick Hepburn). 10. See the Calendar of State Papers (Foreign Series) for Mary's reign. 11. Thomas Thirlby, formerly Bishop of Norwich. 12. Anthony Browne. 13. Sir Edward Carne received an allowance at the rate of fifty-three shillings and four pence per diem as from 12 February, 1555.
4 giorni fa · Three months after the murder of Darnley at Kirk o' Field in 1567, she married James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, one of the chief murder suspects. A large proportion of the nobility rebelled, resulting ultimately in the imprisonment and forced abdication of Mary at Lochleven Castle .
3 giorni fa · Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4, 1524-1530.Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1875.
3 giorni fa · A contract was concluded on 4 April whereby Brigham agreed to spend £3,000 in building and the Earl promised to grant him a lease for thirty-one years from midsummer 1631 at an annual rent of £50; if, within the next five years, Brigham spent a further sum of £2,000, the Earl would grant him an extension of five years.
3 giorni fa · Mary was now in love with James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, and rumors spread that she was pregnant by him. He was accused of Henry's murder, but was found not guilty. Shortly after, Mary and James ...
