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Hace 2 días · On 24 July 1567, she was forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son, James VI. After an unsuccessful attempt to regain the throne, she fled southward seeking the protection of her first cousin once removed, Elizabeth I of England.
- 14 December 1542 – 24 July 1567
- Mary of Guise
Hace 4 días · Mary, Queen of Scots, inherited personal jewels belonging to her father, James V. For a time, the Earl of Arran was ruler of Scotland as regent. In 1556, after her mother Mary of Guise had become regent, Arran returned a large consignment of royal jewels to the young queen in France. [2]
Hace 4 días · Key words and concepts – inter alia, Britain, union, empire, Englishman, Scot – acquired new meaning and relevance, as James VI and I’s accession gave birth to a political configuration that, since the marriage of Margaret Tudor to James IV in 1503, had (in Gordon Donaldson’s judicious phrase) ‘never been a remote contingency.’
Hace 3 días · When Queen Elizabeth I died without issue in 1603, she was succeeded by King James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England (or Great Britain). James was crowned on the Stone of Scone, and patriotic Scots said that the legend had been fulfilled, for a Scotsman then ruled where the Stone of Scone was.
Hace 2 días · Scotland is the most northerly of the four parts of the United Kingdom, occupying about one-third of the island of Great Britain. It has a long and complicated history with England, with which it was merged in 1707 to form the United Kingdom. Its capital is Edinburgh.
Hace 2 días · Book: Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment. Éamonn Ó Ciardha. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2002, ISBN: 1851825347; 468pp.; Price: £32.50. Reviewer: Professor Sean Connolly. Queen's University Belfast. Citation: Professor Sean Connolly, review of Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment, (review no. 293a)
Hace 4 días · Michael Hunter situates the decline of magic between 1650 and 1750, within the areas of research in which he has built his career: the history of the early Royal Society, in particular that ‘Christian Virtuoso’ Robert Boyle, and the widespread fear of atheism in elite circles.
