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9 de mar. de 2015 · On 9 March 1566, David Rizzio, secretary and (possibly) lover of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered in the queen's bedchamber at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. She was heavily pregnant at the time, with the child who would later be crowned James VI and I , and it has been speculated by some that the brutal attack on Rizzio was carefully designed to induce a miscarriage in Mary.
Description. The Italian David Rizzio arrived in Scotland in 1561 with the ambassador from Savoy. He entered the service of Mary, Queen of Scots, first as musician and later as her secretary and close companion. On the night of 9 March 1566 he was brutally murdered in Mary, Queen of Scots’ private apartments at Holyroodhouse.
David Rizzio lived from 1533 to 9 March 1566. An Italian musician, he became a private secretary and confidante of Mary Queen of Scots before being murdered at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh by a group of Protestant lords including the Queen's husband, Lord Darnley. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our ...
27 de jun. de 2018 · Rizzio, David (c.1533–66). Servant of Mary Stuart, brutally murdered in the presence of the pregnant queen by a group of conspirators including Mary's husband Darnley . Born in Turin , and arriving in Scotland in 1561 in the entourage of the Savoyard ambassador, Rizzio drew Mary's attention through his musicianship, but later acted as her secretary.
David Rizzio is a businessman coming from Turin, now advisor to Queen Mary. David was revealed to be a homosexual, using it as a leverage for Mary. However, his threat to Lord Ruthven proved to be deadly, as Ruthven, desperately wanting to seal the secret about his sexuality, accused David of adultery and ordered his execution in front of Mary. David Rizzio was traveling from Italy to Scotland ...
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.
DAVID RIZZIO or RICCIO (1533?-1566), secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was the son of a musician at Pancalieri, near Turin, where he was born about 1533. He obtained a good musical education from his father, and began life in the service of the archbishop of Turin, whence he went to Nice to the court of the Duke of Savoy.
