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Riccio, David, 1533?-1566, Murder, Favorites, Royal, Murder victims Publisher Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid Collection americana Book from the collections of Harvard University Language English
- The Murder of Rizzio
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- The Murder of Rizzio
THE murder of David Rizzio or Riccio, the secretary and fa- vourite of Mary Queen of Scots, occurred on the evening of the 3d of March, 1565. The motives which led to it, the. political considerations mixed up with them, and some of the.
- A Doomed Marriage
- The Plotting Husband
- The Assassination
- Notes and Sources
At the time that Mary employed Rizzio, she was in love (or perhaps 'in lust') with Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, a man John Guy describes as "a narcissist and a natural conspirator", a man who liked his drink and who was promiscuous.2 It is said that Darnley was even intimate with Rizzio3Mary married Darnley on Sunday 29th July 1565 at her private ch...
Immediately after their marriage Darnley had started plotting to change Scotland's religion, with David Rizzio acting as one of his confidantes, and "his actions put in jeopardy the religious compromise that Mary had worked so shrewdly over the past four years to establish"7. That, combined with his behaviour in the bedroom, wrecked the marriage. A...
At 8pm on the night of Saturday 9th March 1566, Lord Darnley and a large group of conspirators (around 80 men) made their way through the Palace of Holyroodhouse to the Queen's supper chamber where she was enjoying a meal with Rizzio and some other friends. Darnley entered first, to reassure his heavily pregnant wife, and then Lord Ruthven, in full...
Based on an original article from The Elizabeth Files blog by Claire Ridgway and an excerpt from On This Day in Tudor Historyalso by Claire Ridgway. 1. Guy, John (2004) My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Harper Perennial, p204 2. Ibid., p211 3. Ibid., p236; Stedall, Robert (2012) The Challenge to the Crown: Volume I: The Struggle ...
On the night of Saturday, 9 March 1566 Mary, Queen of Scots’ private secretary, David Rizzio, was murdered in the queen's private chambers at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Take a look inside these rooms and find out more about what happened that evening.
THE MURDER OF T H E au thor ofthis relation, LORD RUTH VEN, at the age of forty six, was v isited by the hand of God with g reat t rouble and sic kness, whereby he kept his bed co
The Murder of Rizzio, 1787, by John Opie. Jealousy precipitated Rizzio's murder in the Queen's supper chamber in the Palace of Holyroodhouse at 8 o'clock on Saturday, 9 March 1566. Mary, Rizzio, and the Lady Argyll were seated at the supper table. [28]
