409:. Huntly and his wife ordered the cannon to be dismantled and hidden in a cellar. Elizabeth, Countess of Huntly received the queen's messenger Captain Hay on 25 October 1562. She showed him the castle chapel furnished for Roman Catholic worship, intending to gain the queen's sympathy. Queen Mary was not convinced by this, and she sent her half-brother
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Elizabeth's sons John and Adam, themselves having actively participated in the rebellion and battle, were captured and shortly afterwards on 2 November, Sir John was executed by the orders of Queen Mary for treason. The life of seventeen-year-old Adam was spared as was that
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and the Tutor of Pitcur arrived first and surrounded the house. While
Kirkcaldy was talking to the castle porter, the castle watchman on the tower spotted Coldingham and the Master of Lindsay and their troops a mile off. He alerted the Earl, who ran without "boot or sword" and hopped over a low wall
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Elizabeth was described as having made all the decisions for her husband, and often "turned to the aid of her familiars and witches when inspiration from any other source was lacking". She was better educated and her writing was superior to that of the Earl. She also was surrounded by a large and
493:. She devised various plans for Mary's escape which the latter rejected as having been impracticable. She finally managed to smuggle a letter to her son George, who also had become Mary's partisan, ordering him to stand by at Seton with a party of nobles to aid the queen on her journey to
471:. Among the confiscated belongings were elaborate tapestries, velvet-covered beds, hung with fringes of gold and silverwork, figures of animals, and vessels of gilded and coloured glass. The treasures were itemised in inventories by Mary's servant
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where he remained in custody until 1565 when his dignities were nominally restored to him. In 1563, the year following the Battle of
Corrichie, Huntly's title and possessions were forfeited to the crown at a macabre session of
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A few days after on 20 October, the
Countess of Huntly came Aberdeen to see Queen Mary, but she was sent back to Huntly. Huntly assembled an army of 700 men and marched towards Aberdeen. On 28 October, at the
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In March 1566, Elizabeth, who had by that time become a loyal adherent of Queen Mary, spent the night tending the queen, who was in her sixth month of pregnancy, at
Holyrood Palace following the murder of
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splendid train of personal attendants. On 23 August 1550, she ordered the execution of
William MacIntosh, 15th Laird MacIntosh for having committed treason against Huntly who was accompanying the Scottish
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the Earl of Huntly rebelled and raised a force of his own retainers against Queen Mary. Elizabeth encouraged her husband in his rebellion, and persuaded him to attack the queen's troops at
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On 24 February 1566, Jean became the first wife of James
Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell who, following his divorce from Jean in 1567, would marry as her third husband, Mary, Queen of Scots.
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at the back of the castle and found a horse before Pitcur could stop him. The Earl and a small number of followers evaded capture, and went to Bog o'Gight, now called
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Later, as a token of the queen's clemency towards the
Huntlys, Elizabeth and her second eldest daughter, Jean, were given positions at the royal court.
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with Queen Mary in attendance, in which his embalmed corpse was set up for all to see, and was pronounced guilty of treason and the sentence of
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J. Wormald, Court, Kirk, and
Community: Scotland, 1470–1625 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991),
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and there apprehend Queen Mary. with the purpose of forcing her into marriage with their son, Sir John.
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to arrest the Earl of Huntly and take Huntly Castle.
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History Workshop, What's in a Surname? Rebecca Mason
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282:and Lady Margaret Douglas, by whom he had issue.
256:Thomas Gordon, married Jean Gordon, daughter of
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158:, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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213:On 27 March 1530, Elizabeth married
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125:Elizabeth Keith, Countess of Huntly
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260:and Elizabeth Campbell, widow of
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199:Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell
188:William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal
180:William Keith, 3rd Earl Marischal
152:Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell
133:George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly
112:Robert Keith, Master of Marischal
76:George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly
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307:, by whom she had two daughters.
305:John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl
262:James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
184:John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton
303:Lady Elizabeth Gordon, married
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233:in 1546 following the death of
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327:William Gordon (died in Paris)
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272:Lord Chancellor of Scotland
231:Lord Chancellor of Scotland
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469:Darnaway
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67:Unknown
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