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Nicolas Wardlaw, Lady Bonnyton
Nicolas Wardlaw, Lady Bonnyton was a Scottish gentlewoman in the household of Mary, Queen of Scots. Her son James Wood became a controversial figure in Scotland. Royal household Nicolas was a daughter of Henry Wardlaw of Torrie, now called Torryburn. When she joined the household of Mary, Queen of Scots, she was sometimes known as "Madame Torrie" and recorded in the accounts as "Wardlaw". She and another maiden, Jonet Seton, slept in Mary's bed chamber, and are mentioned in the treasurer of Scotland, treasurer's accounts from November 1561. A plan for her to marry David Seton of Parbroath, David Seton of Parbroath Castle, Parbroath in 1562 came to nothing. Some older sources confuse Nicolas Wardlaw with Nichola (fool), Nichola, a fool or entertainer at Mary's court. Wedding at Stirling Castle She married Patrick Wood of Bonnyton (near Montrose Basin), at Stirling Castle in September 1566. In August, before the wedding, Mary and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Darnley granted the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary, Queen Of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was List of Scottish monarchs, Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne. During her childhood, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland was governed by regents, first by the heir to the throne, James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, and then by her mother, Mary of Guise. In 1548, she was betrothed to Francis II of France, Francis, the Dauphin of France, and was sent to be brought up in Kingdom of France, France, where she would be safe from invading Kingdom of England, English forces during the Rough Wooing. Mary Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Francis, Dauphin of France, married Francis in 1558, becoming queen consort of France from his accession in 1559 until his death in December 1560. Widowed, Mary Entry of Mary, Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bellenden (Lord Justice Clerk)
Sir John Bellenden of Auchnole and Broughton (died 1 October 1576) was, before 1544, Director of Chancery, and was appointed Lord Justice Clerk on 25 June 1547, succeeding his father Thomas Bellenden of Auchnoule. John was knighted before April 1544. Career With Sir Robert Carnegie, he agreed an indenture with English commissioners for peace on the Scottish border at Berwick upon Tweed. In 1555 Sir John Bellenden audited accounts for fortifications built by Mary of Guise at Inchkeith. He was a Commissioner for the Treaty of Peace with Anna of Oldenburg, signed at Aberdeen 19 October 1556 confirmed by Mary, Queen of Scots, 26 September 1557. With James MacGill, he prepared a short guide to Scottish law, the ''Discours Particulier D'Escosse'', written in French for Mary, Queen of Scots, and Francis II of France. After the Siege of Leith, in the articles of the Treaty of Edinburgh, Bellenden was nominated to negotiate the French withdrawal from Scotland on behalf of the Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Écu
The term ''écu'' () may refer to one of several France, French coins. The first ''écu'' was a gold coin (the ''écu d'or'') minted during the reign of Louis IX of France, in 1266. The value of the ''écu'' varied considerably over time, and silver coins (known as ''écu d'argent'') were also introduced. ''Écu'' (from Latin ''scutum'') means shield, and the coin was so called because its design included the coat of arms of France. The word is related to the Catalan language, Catalan ''escut'', Italian language, Italian ''scudo (other), scudo,'' or Portuguese language, Portuguese and Castilian language, Castilian ''escudo''. In English, the ''écu'' was often referred to as the crown, or the French crown in the eras of the crown (English coin), English crown, crown (British coin), British crown, and crown (currency), other crowns. History Origin When Louis IX took the throne, France still used small silver French denier, deniers (abbreviated ''d''.), which had circula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield Manor Lodge
Sheffield Manor Lodge, also known as Sheffield Manor or locally as Manor Castle, is a lodge built about 1516 in what then was a large deer park southeast of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, to provide a country retreat and further accommodate George Talbot, the 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and his large family. The remnant of this estate is now known as Norfolk Park. The housing estate of Manor is named after Sheffield Manor Lodge. Description The remains of Sheffield Manor Lodge include parts of the kitchens, long gallery, and the Grade II* listed Turret House (also called "Queen Mary's Tower"), which contains fine sixteenth-century ceilings. Writing in the 17th century, William Dugdale noted that the heraldic decoration in the long gallery dating from around 1525 included the arms of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and the George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury's second wife Elizabeth Walden. Some evidence points to the Turret House being built by 1574, when George T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Of Denmark
Anne of Denmark (; 12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619) was the wife of King James VI and I. She was List of Scottish royal consorts, Queen of Scotland from their marriage on 20 August 1589 and List of English royal consorts, Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until Death and funeral of Anne of Denmark, her death in 1619. The second daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Anne married James at age 14. They had three children who survived infancy: Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, who predeceased his parents; Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Princess Elizabeth, who became Queen of Bohemia; and James's future successor, Charles I of England, Charles I. Anne demonstrated an independent streak and a willingness to use factional Scottish politics in her conflicts with James over the custody of Prince Henry and his treatment of her friend Barbara Ruthven, Beatrix Ruthven. Anne app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Conn (priest)
George Conn (; died 1640) was a Scottish Roman Catholic priest, a Franciscan and papal diplomat in England. Early life Conn was a catholic brought up by his father, Patrick Conn of Auchry, near Turriff, Aberdeenshire; his mother was Isabella Chyn of Esselmont. When he was very young, he was sent to be educated at Douay, from which he went to the Scots College in Paris, and Rome. He completed his education at the University of Bologna, where the Duke of Mirandola engaged him as a tutor for his son. Conn went to Rome in the summer of 1623, to work in the household of Cardinal Alessandro Peretti di Montalto, who left him a legacy on his death at the end of the year. He then transferred his services as secretary to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, and accompanied him when he went to France as nuncio. He was subsequently made canon of St Lawrence in Damaso and secretary to the Congregation of Rites. He also joined the Franciscan Order.Derek A. Wilson, ''The King and the Gentleman: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wood (courtier)
Margaret Wood was a Scottish Catholic courtier. Family background She was a daughter of Patrick Wood, Laird of Bonnyton and Nicholas or Nicola Wardlaw, Lady Bonnyton, who was a daughter of Henry Wardlaw of Torrie and a former lady in waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots. She was sometimes known as "Madame Torrie". Her mother, Nicholas Wardlaw, came to the christening of Patrick Young, at St Vigeans Church in August 1584, and asked Peter Young that the child be named Patrick. In 1604, Peter Young baptised a daughter, Nicholas, named after Lady Bonnyton who was the godmother. The Catholic author George Conn described Margaret Wood as the sister of James Wood, the younger laird of Boniton or Bonnington (Bonnyton) near Montrose in Maryton parish, and wife of James (or William) Gray, tutor of the House of Schivas. She had been brought up among the maidens of the household of Anne of Denmark. She joined a nunnery at Carpentras. Her sister Magdalen Wood married George Leslie of Kincraig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gight
Gight is an estate in the parish of Fyvie in the Formartine area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is best known as the location of the 16th-century Gight (or Formartine) Castle, ancestral home of Lord Byron. Gight Castle Gight Castle is about miles east of Fyvie, just north of the River Ythan, and mile south of Cottown.Coventry, Martin (1997) ''The Castles of Scotland''. Goblinshead. p.188 The castle was built to an L-shaped plan, probably in the 1570s by George Gordon, the second laird. Ranges of outbuildings were built later. The tower has a vaulted basement, and a turnpike stair at the end of a long passage. There was a hall on the first floor. George Gordon had no children, and the property passed to his brother, James Gordon of Cairnbannoch and Gight. His son Alexander married Agnes Beaton, daughter of David Beaton, Archbishop of St Andrews. Alexander was killed at Dundee in 1579, and his daughter Elizabeth married George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar in 1590. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
