Tag: Queen of Scots

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8th February 1587: Mary Queen of Scots executed in the great hall of Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire

8th February 2022
Tagged as: Assassination, Babington Plot, Elizabeth I, Elizabethan, Execution, Mary, Mary Stuart, Plot, Queen of Scots, Treason

Having been held for 19 years in a variety of castles and manor houses around the British Isles, Mary was accused of plotting to kill Elizabeth in 1586.

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8th February 1587: Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

8th February 2019
Tagged as: Catholicism, Elizabeth I, England, Execution, Henry VIII, Mary, Monarchy, Politics, Protestantism, Queen of Scots, Scotland

On the 8^th February 1587 Mary Stuart, more commonly known as Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed in the great hall of Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire.