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Mary Beaton (about 1543–1597), or Bethune as she wrote her family name, was a Scottish courtier. She is remembered in history as one of the four girls who were companions of Mary, Queen of Scots from childhood, known as The Queen's Maries or The Four Maries, and has also entered folklore through the traditional ballad of Marie ...
" Mary Hamilton ", or " The Fower Maries " ("The Four Marys"), is a common name for a well-known sixteenth-century ballad from Scotland based on an apparently fictional incident about a lady-in-waiting to a Queen of Scotland. It is Child Ballad 173 and Roud 79.
The four Marys, as they became known, were the companions and ladies-in-waiting of Mary, Queen of Scots: Mary Seton, Mary Beaton, Mary Fleming and Mary Livingston. In 1548, the four Marys joined their Queen at Inchmahome Priory in preparation for their journey to France.
Mary Beaton was about eighteen months older than Mary and was considered the most classically beautiful of the four. On their return to Scotland in 1560 she was much admired by both George Buchanan and Thomas Randolph, the English ambassador to Scotland.
Mary Beaton was born on 19 April 1884 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for A Message from Mars (1921), The Man Who (1921) and Clothes (1920). She died on 25 January 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actress
- April 19, 1884
- Mary Beaton
- January 25, 1961
Born in 1543, Mary was the third child of Robert Beaton, 4th Laird of Criech and Joanna Renwall. Her mother was one of Marie de Guise's ladies-in-waiting. In 1548, at the age of five, Mary Beaton was chosen by Marie de Guise to accompany her daughter Mary, Queen of Scots, to France.
The ballad is precise about names, but it was Mary, Queen of Scots who had four Maries as maids of honour, and they were Mary Fleming, Mary Seaton, Mary Beaton and Mary Livingston. None of them suffered such a death.
