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    Mary of Guise (French: Marie de Guise; 22 November 1515 – 11 June 1560), also called Mary of Lorraine, was Queen of Scotland from 1538 until 1542, as...
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    throne, James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, and then by her mother, Mary of Guise. In 1548, she was betrothed to Francis, the Dauphin of France, and was sent to...
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    first to Madeleine of Valois, and then to Mary of Guise. James also fathered at least nine illegitimate children by a series of mistresses. James V's...
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    Dauphin, Francis of Valois, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. The mother of Mary, Queen of Scots was Mary of Guise, who remained in...
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  • Count of Guise and Duke of Guise (pronounced [ɡɥiz] GHEEZ) were titles in the French nobility. Originally a seigneurie, in 1417 Guise was erected into...
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    Falkland Palace (category Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes)
    Mary of Guise, sometimes travelled without her to stay at Falkland Palace. Falkland and Stirling palaces were official residences of Mary of Guise as...
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    de Lorraine, Duke of Guise (20 October 1496 – 12 April 1550) was a French aristocrat and general. He became the first Duke of Guise in 1528. He was a...
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    of France. Claude's daughter Mary of Guise (1515–1560) married King James V of Scotland and was mother of Mary, Queen of Scots. Claude's eldest son, Francis...
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    marriage. Mary and her mother, Mary of Guise, moved from Linlithgow Palace to the security of Stirling Castle. A kind of civil war continued with the Regent...
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    of Scotland during the minority of Mary, Queen of Scots from 1543 to 1554, when he lost the regency to Mary of Guise. At first pro-English and Protestant...
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    John Knox (category Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)
    political events that involved the murder of Cardinal David Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent Mary of Guise. He was taken prisoner by French forces...
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    artillery that was sent to Mary of Guise, she offered the hand of her daughter Queen Mary in marriage. When the Parliament of Scotland rejected the Greenwich...
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    September 1543 at the age of nine months, following the death of her father James V. Mary was a granddaughter of Claude, Duke of Guise, a very influential figure...
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    James V of Scotland, and the Scottish regency under the Earl of Arran and Mary of Guise. He expanded the Royal Navy, oversaw the annexation of Wales to...
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    John Mosman (goldsmith) (category Court of James V of Scotland)
    "chafferonys" for the women of the court of Mary of Guise. He made a "chafferoun" of gold in "Paris work" or fashion for one of the daughters of James V, probably...
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    Haddington. In 1554, Mary of Guise, the Catholic French widow of James V, was appointed Regent in place of the Earl of Arran. Guise continued the pro-French...
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    of Claude, Duke of Guise (created Duke of Guise in 1527), and his wife Antoinette de Bourbon. His sister, Mary of Guise, was the wife of James V of Scotland...
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    Scottish Reformation (category Church of Scotland)
    complicated by regencies led by Margaret Tudor and Mary of Guise and by the advent of a regnant queen in Mary, Queen of Scots from 1561. Concerns over this threat...
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  • Treaty of Berwick made by the Lords of the Congregation. The treaty was concluded on 6 July 1560 just short of a month after the death of Mary of Guise. The...
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  • Madeleine of France and Mary of Guise. A more well-known half-brother, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, was variously known as "Lord James", the Prior of St...
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  • daughter of Arnold, Duke of Guelders Mary of Guise (1515–1560), Queen Consort of James V of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots Mary, Queen of Hungary...
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  • second wife, Mary of Guise. From the moment of his birth James was Duke of Rothesay and heir apparent to the Scottish throne. James, Duke of Rothesay was born...
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  • Elizabeth (film) (category Cultural depictions of Mary I of England)
    attempt, evidence implicating Mary of Guise. Elizabeth sends Walsingham to meet with Mary secretly in Scotland, under the guise of once again planning to marry...
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    Commendator of Kelso and Melrose refused to go. In 1550, after the conclusion of the war known the Rough Wooing, he accompanied his step-mother Mary of Guise on...
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    power of Mary of Guise, the widow of James V. George Douglas was the brother of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and so was called "Master of Angus"...
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    After Protestant Lords gained power following Mary of Guise's death and the return to Scotland of Mary, Queen of Scots, Bothwell appears to have been not much...
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  • Sutherland of Duffus and his heirs. In the Autumn of 1554 Mary of Guise paid for a ship, troops and a cannon to be used by John, 11th Earl of Sutherland...
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  • first husband of Mary of Guise, who later became queen consort of Scotland and mother to Mary, Queen of Scots. He was the second son of Louis I d'Orléans...
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  • James Somerville, 6th Lord Somerville (category Lords of Parliament (pre-1707))
    Jonet Maitland. James Somerville wrote to Queen Regent of Scotland, Mary of Guise, from Cowthally Castle on 22 March 1554. He asked to be excused from...
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  • Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), the daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise, was crowned as Queen of Scotland in the Chapel Royal at Stirling...
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