The explosive end of Lord Darnley / groteskology.blogspotRizzio, Italian secretary, musician and lover / en.wikipedia.orgThe 4th Earl of Bothwell / educationscotland.gov.ukShare the post "An infamous trio, Darnley, Bothwell & Rizzio" He is best known as the probable murderer of April 1578. Unfortunately the friendliness dimmed because people suspected Rizzio of being an agent of the Pope’s, and it was certain that Darnley had a hand in Rizzio’s assassination in 1566. He was arrogant, debauched and made a present to his wife of a venereal disease. The two became engaged and left for By this time One evening in Holyrood Rizzio was dragged shouting for help from the Queen’s presence and done to death with knives. [1] Lord Ruthven and King Darnley were both involved, and Ruthven even lead the murder of David Rizzio in place of the missing Lord Bothwell in front of the very pregnant Queen Mary . They live in Spain.
At his marriage to Mary he was Earl of Ross and Duke of Albany, both ancient Scots titles dotted about in the works of Shakespeare. Darnley, who was not entirely of sound mind, believed Rizzio’s many enemies’ tales of the secretary’s influence over the Queen. When she returned to Edinburgh in April 1567, the 4th Earl of Bothwell and his men stopped her on the road.

her suppress a revolt by her half brother, the Earl of Moray. He is married with three grown-up children.

Insisting it was for her protection, Bothwell escorted Mary to his home at Dunbar palace. daughter of the Admiral of the Danish Navy.

James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell lived from around 1536 to 14 April 1578.

The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline. It is said that it was his advice that led Mary to marry Lord Darnley; certainly at this time Darnley and Rizzio were friends. Within three months of Darnley’s murder, the Earl of Bothwell had married Mary in a Protestant ceremony in Edinburgh. Bothwell divorced his wife, Jean Gordon, and on 15th May, he married Mary at a protestant ceremony. Lord Bothwell : James Hepburn was the 4th Earl of Bothwell and the 3rd husband of Mary, Queen of Scots following the death of her husband, Lord Darnley, …


James Hepburn was the son of Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell. All four would have spectacular or gruesome ends.Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley was an Anglo-Scottish aristocrat who married as her second husband the ill-fated Mary Stuart, whose first husband had been a king of France.This matrimony produced a son, the future King James VI of Scotland and First of England – founder therefore of the reigning Stuart dynasty. The body was hastily buried without the benefit of clergy.Mary Queen of Scots, as we all know, was beheaded after a death warrant had been signed by Queen Elizabeth I, who was her cousin. When the royal head was off Elizabeth maintained that she had signed the warrant under duress from Cecil, her chief councillor. There was danger ahead.

On 19 April 1567 Bothwell proposed marriage to This claim (and her Roman Catholicism) made This macabre sixteenth century tale should, perhaps, have been a play by Kit Marlowe, except for the fact that, give or take a few added myths, it is all true. ‘Dean Swift’ is a pen name: the author has been a soldier; he has worked in sales, TV, the making of films, as a teacher of English and history and a journalist.

The marriage was largely unpopular with the nobles. He is best known as the probable murderer of Lord Darnley, Mary Queen of Scots' second husband, and for becoming her third husband, a wedding that sparked the downfall of both Mary and Bothwell. He was created Duke of Albany shortly before his marriage. This young man quite liked his very tall wife (Mary was six feet high in her silk stockings), but then he liked all women equally, and spent much time in bedchambers other than his wife’s. He is married with three grown-up children.