How did Mary Queen of Scots Father Die?

Answer 1

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary was seen as a threat by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England - in the opinion of some, Mary should have been Queen of England instead of Elizabeth and Mary was a Roman Catholic and therefore under suspicion of trying to undermine the English monarchy as a whole.

Mary was implicated in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth I, which she vigorously denied, and the plot may have been fabricated by Elizabeth's supporters.

Mary was tried and convicted of treason and executed by beheading on 24th July 1567.

Answer 2

She had three husbands....

1. King of France - Francis -died from an abscess in his ear

2. Henry Darnly - died under suspicious circumstances - the house he was staying at blew up. His death is the one that Mary was accused of instigating.

3. Earl of Bothwell, died mad in a prison in Norway after escaping Scotland at the time of Mary's arrest in England.

Answer 3

It is said that Mary's father, James V of Scotland, when suffering a defeat at the Battle of Solway Moss against the English, had a nervous collapse afterwards, although some dispute this, took to his bed and died in Falkland Palace on 8 December 1542. Mary Queen of Scots succeeded him, and was only 6 days old at the time.

Answer 4

Two out of three died, one by natural causes one by murder most foul the last one was gaoled and eventually went crazy.

Read on...

She was originally promised in an arranged marriage to Prince Edward of England but this was not honoured.

Then her first marriage to the Francis, son of Henry II, king of France, ended when he died just two years later.

She then married her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley in 1565. He title became Henry King of Scots and they had one child who eventually became King James I. Unfortunately Henry wasn't a particularly nice person and it wasn't long before Mary had become disenchanted with him. Rumours of a plot to kill him by blowing him up, ended when he, and his man servant were found strangled to death.

Her third marriage was to James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell after he provided her with support during the troubles with her previous husband Henry. The public and Scots nobles became angry with this as they suspected his complicity in the gunpowder plot and eventual murder of Henry. So Mary fled to England to ask for help from her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Against her better judgement, but influenced by her advisors, Queen Elizabeth I imprisoned Mary fearing that Mary wanted the throne of England for herself.

After 19 years of trying to obtain her freedom, she was charged and found guilty of taking part in a plot to kill Elizabeth. Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587 at the age of 44.

The Earl of Bothwell survived assassination attempts he Bothwell was driven into exile. He was eventually imprisoned in Denmark, went insane and died in 1578.