MQS

WHY WAS MARY IN FRANCE?!

DUE TO MARYS DAD DYING SCOTLAND WAS POLITCIALLY UNSTABLE

Catholic vs protestant

FRANCE WAS CATHOLIC AND ALLY OF SCOTLAND (Auld Alliance)

POLICTICAL STRUGGLES

SCOTLAND MAINLY PROTESTANT

MARG WASNT TRUSTED BECAUSE SHE MIGHT MAKE SCOTLAND CATHOLIC AGAIN

THIS CAUSED POWER STRUGGLES

AND REBELLIONS AGAINSGT HER RULE

MARRIAGES

MARRY MARRIED LORD DARNLEY HE WAS OFTEN DRUNK SELFISH AND AMBITIOUS WITH POWER

HE WAS INVOLVED IN MURDER OF DAVID RIZZIO WHICH MADE MARRY LOSE SUPPORT

MARY GOT INVOLVED IN DARNLEYS DEATH CAUSING DISTRUST

SHE MARRIED EARL OF BOTHWELL JAMES HEPBURN,SHORTLY AFTER DARNLEYS DEATH AND DIDNT EVEN MOURN 40 DAYS BEFORE GETTING CAUGHT WITH JAMES

NOBELS WERE FURIOUS AND THOUGHT SHE HAD BOTHWELL KILL DARNLEY

SHE WAS CAPTURED AND FORCED TO ABDICATED IN FAVOUR OF HER SON JAMES THE 6TH IV

NOBELS AND REBELION

SCOTTISH NOBELS HAD TONES OD POWER AND DIDNT LIKE MARY RULING INDEPENDTLY

THE NOBELS REBELLED AFTER THE BOTHWELL MARRIAGE AND SHE LOST THE THRONE FLEEINF TO ENGLAND

CONFLICT WITH ENGLAND

ELIZ 1 OF ENGLAND FOUND MARY TO BE A THREAT BECAUSE MARY HAD A CLAIM TO THE ENGLISH THRONE

ENGLISH CATHOLICS WANTED MARY AS QUEEN —→ ELIZ 1 KEPT MARY IMPRISONED FOR 19 YEARS

MARYS PRESNECE IN ENGLAND BECAME A POLITCAL PROBLEM WITH PLOTS TO OVERTHROW ELIZ 1

REASONS FOR MARYS EXUCATION

MARY WAS COUSINS WITH ELIZ

MARY WAS A LEGITIMATE CATHOLIC HEIR TO THE ENGLISH THRONE

MANY ENGLISH CATHOLICS THOUGHT ELIZABETH WAS ILEGITMATE OR NOT THE TRUE RULER

THIS RESULTA IN MARY BEING A FOCUS FOR PLOTS AGAINST ELIZ

PLOTS

MARY INVOLVED IN BABINGTON PLOT (1586) A PLAN BY SOME CATHOLICS TO ASSASANTE ELIZ AND PUT MARY ON THRONE

MARYS LETTERS WERE APPROVED OR WAS AWARE OF THIS PLAN WHICH MADE ELIZS GOVERMENT SEE HER AS A REAL THREAT

RELGIOUS TENSION

ENGLAND=PROTESTANT UNDER ELIZABETH WHILE MARY WAS CATHOLIC

MANH FEARED IF MARY LIVED SHE COULD INSPIRE A CATHOLIC UPRISING IN ENGLAND

POLITICAL PRESURE

ELIZ ADVISERS ESPECIALLY WILLIAM CECIL PUSHED HER TO ACT

EXECUTINF MARY REMOVED A DANGEROUS RIVAL AND SENT A MESSAGE TO OTHER CATHOLICS