by John Guy
downward spiral in destiny of, [>]
burial of, [>]
monumental tomb for, [>]–[>]
Camden’s estimate of, [>]
and death of Moray, [>]
naivete of, [>]–[>]
and trust in Lord James Stuart, [>]
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD IN SCOTLAND
birth, [>]
baptism, [>]
and French-English intrigues, [>]
regent for, [>]
and Henry VIII’s plans for dynastic marriage, [>]–[>], [>]
at Stirling Castle, [>]–[>]
coronation, [>]–[>]
and Henry VIII’s invasion, [>]
IN FRANCE
and dauphin, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>] (see also Francis II)
journey to France, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
plot to assassinate, [>]
and uncle Charles, [>], [>], [>] (see also Cardinal of Lorraine)
and Lady Parois, [>], [>], [>] (see also Parois, Lady)
household status and expenses, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and plan for rule with mother as sole regent, [>]
and Mary Tudor, [>]–[>]
and family’s dynastic ambition, [>], [>]
marriage to dauphin, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and dynastic plans, [>]–[>]
and Scottish commissioners, [>], [>]–[>]
and secret documents, [>]–[>]
sleeping arrangements, [>]
as queen of France, [>]
at Francis’s coronation, [>]–[>]
Catherine de Medici as adversary of, [>], [>] (see also Catherine de Medici)
and crown jewels, [>], [>]
and Guise family manipulations, [>]
and revolt of lords in Scotland, [>], [>], [>]
pregnancy imagined, [>]–[>]
and death of Francis, [>]–[>]
and death of mother, [>]
suggestions for second marriage, [>], [>]–[>]
safety and comfort of, contrasted with life in Scotland, [>]
AS QUEEN OF SCOTLAND
religion vs. politics for, [>], [>], [>]
and Cecil, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>] (see also Cecil, William)
coronation, [>]–[>]
return to Scotland, [>]–[>]
councilors chosen, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
goodbyes, [>], [>]
advice from Catholic Lesley, [>]–[>]
agreement with Stuart on religious status quo, [>]–[>]
and controversy over ratification of treaty of Edinburgh, [>]–[>]
departure from Calais and arrival at Leith, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
and Holyrood, [>]–[>]
domestic staff brought along, [>]
popularity of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
and problem of Lord James Stuart, [>]
entrée royale, [>]–[>]
Knox debate, [>], [>]–[>]
proclamation in favor of religious status quo, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
royal progress through country, [>]–[>]
Privy Council formed, [>]
relationship with lords, [>]
and renegotiation of treaty of Edinburgh, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Christmas celebration, [>]–[>]
luxury and sumptuousness of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and Wars of Religion in France, [>], [>]
royal progress to northeastern Scotland, [>]–[>]
kidnapping attempt and defeat of Earl of Huntly, [>]–[>]
broad coalition of advisers formed, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
loneliness of, [>]
royal progress to western Highlands, [>]
Court of Session reformed by, [>]
progress to far north, [>]
Lennox’s gift to, [>]–[>]
and factionalism of lords, [>], [>], [>], [>]
steps to confirm religious status quo, [>]–[>]
battles against rebel lords (1565), [>]–[>], [>]
preliminary steps against, [>]–[>]
rebels’ goods to be confiscated, [>], [>]
Mary’s ideological determination in, [>]–[>], [>]
defiant “all or nothing” approach of, [>], [>]
political isolation of (1566), [>], [>]
assassination plot by Darnley and nobles, [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (see also Rizzio assassination plot)
and Cecil’s agent provocateur, [>]–[>]
gives birth to James, [>]
royal progress to Berwickshire and East Lothian, [>]
pardons participants in Rizzio assassination, [>], [>]–[>]
twenty-fifth birthday as turning point, [>]
and soldiers’ mutiny, [>]
and justifying account written for neighboring rulers, [>]–[>]
and Casket Letters, [>]
See also Mary Queen of Scots AND DARNLEY; Mary Queen of Scots AND BOTHWELL; Mary Queen of Scots IN CLASH WITH CONFEDERATE LORDS
SEARCH FOR DYNASTIC MARRIAGE
and rules of the time, [>]
circle of advisers reshuffled, [>]–[>], [>]
and Don Carlos as choice, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
needed to restore status, [>]
Archduke Charles of Austria proposed, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Knox, [>]–[>]
and Elizabeth’s statement of conditions, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
needed to bolster position in Scotland, [>]
and Elizabeth’s proposing Dudley, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Darnley, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
and Catherine’s offer of Duke of Anjou, [>], [>]
and meeting of commissioners (over Dudley), [>], [>]
AND DARNLEY, [>]
and Mary’s ring, [>]
as prospect to wed Mary, [>], [>], [>], [>]
first meeting, [>]–[>]
early courtship, [>]–[>]
and Mary’s ultimatum to Elizabeth, [>]
marriage
Mary’s securing of continental support, [>]–[>]
and domestic opposition, [>]–[>]
Darnley raised to earl, [>]
and Darnley’s character, [>]
as marriage of convenience, [>], [>]
English Council debate on strategy toward, [>]–[>]
Mary’s defiance of letters of recall, [>]
and Darnley’s foolish remarks, [>]
wedding, [>], [>]–[>]
Darnley made king of Scotland, [>]–[>], [>]
and rebels’ grievances, [>], [>]
in battle against rebel lords, [>]
in argument over selecting commander of army, [>], [>]–[>]
Darnley’s arrogance and vanity, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Mary’s turn toward Catholicism, [>]
Mary’s pregnancy, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
marriage troubles, [>]–[>]
Darnley’s anger at denial of sex and suspicion toward Rizzio, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
birth of James, [>]
and regency in event of Mary’s death, [>]
marriage troubles (after birth of James), [>]–[>], [>]
Darnley’s intention to separate, [>]–[>]
Mary’s talk with lords about divorce, [>]
Mary’s dominance, [>]
in Mary’s justifying account, [>]–[>]
Buchanan’s dossier on, [>]
in Casket Letter, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Protestants and Catholics behind marriage, [>]
and Darnley assassination plot, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and evening of the explosion, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and conjecture of plot to kill Mary, [>], [>]
and alleged remark about Rizzio murder, [>]
Mary’s offer of pardon to informant, [>]
and Mary’s lack of effort to find perpetrators, [>]–[>]
and Lennox’s accusations, [>]
in Mary’s justifying account, [>]–[>]
Buchanan’s dossier on, [>]–[
>]
and Casket Letters, [>]
(see also Darnley assassination)
AND BOTHWELL, [>], [>]
and Mary in France, [>], [>]
recall of, [>], [>]–[>]
suggested as near siblings, [>]
Bothwell’s trial and escape, [>]
second recall of, [>]–[>]
in battle against rebels, [>]–[>], [>]
reinstated on Privy Council, [>]
and Bothwell’s injuries in ambush, [>]–[>], [>]
Mary turns to after Darnley’s murder, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Bothwell contemplates marriage, [>], [>]
and pornographic placard, [>]–[>]
and Ainslie’s Tavern Bond, [>]–[>]
Mary’s submission to, [>]
abducted and “ravished” by Bothwell, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
and Casket Letters, [>]–[>]
Confederate Lords’ accusations against, [>], [>]–[>]
Buchanan’s dossier on, [>]–[>]
and Casket Letters, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (see also Casket Letters)
and English Parliament’s debate on Mary, [>]
marriage to Bothwell, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Mary asks for annulment of Bothwell’s existing marriage, [>]
marriage banns protested, [>]–[>]
Bothwell pardoned and raised in peerage, [>]
unhappiness in, [>]–[>]
suicide wishes, [>]
belated celebration of, [>]
Mary’s behavior affected, [>]
failure to put Bothwell in place, [>]
and Bothwell’s duplicity, [>]
and factionalism, [>]
Mary’s pregnancy by, [>]
in Mary’s justifying account, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
pregnancy miscarried, [>]
in Bothwell’s memoirs, [>]
and marriage contract, [>]
pope’s annulment of, [>]
and Mary’s naivete, [>]
Mary Queen of Scots
IN CLASH WITH CONFEDERATE LORDS
raising funds for army, [>]
at Borthwick Castle, [>]–[>]
Edinburgh captured by lords, [>]–[>]
Mary escapes to Dunbar, [>]
troops mustered, [>]–[>]
confrontation at Carberry Hill, [>]–[>]
single combat by Bothwell negotiated, [>]–[>]
Mary surrenders herself, [>]–[>]
lords’ deception and secret pact with France, [>]
and Mary’s popularity, [>]
in Bothwell’s memoirs, [>]
and Casket Letters, [>]
Confederate Lords’ dossier against, [>]–[>]
counts in indictment against, [>]–[>]
and Casket Letters, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>] (see also Casket Letters)
IMPRISONMENT IN SCOTLAND
taken to Holyrood, [>]–[>]
imprisoned in Lochleven, [>]
forced abdication, [>]–[>]
Argyll opposed to, [>]
visited by Moray, [>]–[>]
domestic staff of, [>]
escape, [>]–[>], [>]
defeated in battle, [>]–[>]
escape to England and imprisonment in Carlisle, [>]
and Cecil’s designs, [>]–[>]
supposed letter to Bothwell on, [>]
rumored secret correspondence with Bothwell, [>]
and Bothwell’s reported deathbed confession, [>]–[>]
AS ENGLISH CAPTIVE, [>]–[>]
and justification of trial in England [>]
tribunal examining case against her, [>]–[>], [>]
protestations by, [>], [>], [>]
asks to meet with Elizabeth, [>], [>], [>]
and reasons for fleeing to England, [>]
writes to Philip II, [>]–[>]
stalemate, [>]
domestic staff of, [>]–[>]
luxurious accommodations of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
with Lord and Lady Scrope, [>]
moved to Tutbury Castle, [>]–[>]
illnesses of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
moved to Sheffield Lodge, [>]
guarded confinement of, [>]
meals of, [>]–[>]
exercise lacking, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
premature aging from, [>]
at Buxton spa, [>]–[>]
embroidery as pastime, [>]–[>]
enjoys dogs and birds, [>]–[>]
correspondence with friends and supporters, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
letters intercepted, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
and French family connections, [>]
and suspicion of affair with Shrewsbury, [>]
returned to Tutbury Castle, [>]–[>]
Paulet as jailer of, [>]–[>]
Norfolk’s attempt to marry, [>], [>]–[>]
plots and conspiracies during captivity
involving Mary marrying Duke of Norfolk, [>]–[>], [>]
Enterprise of England, [>]–[>]
Mendoza contacted for information on, [>]
Mendoza-incited invasion plot by Duke of Guise, [>]
Mary’s dabbling in, [>]
Mary’s openness to, [>]
Babington’s plot to assassinate Elizabeth, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and Ridolfi, [>]–[>]
offers James in marriage, [>]
Cecil’s visit to, [>]
and Cecil’s publication of Casket Letters and Buchanan’s dossier, [>]–[>], [>]
and parliamentary debate about Mary, [>]–[>]
Cecil’s further efforts to undermine, [>]–[>]
hope from d’Aubigny’s influence in Scotland, [>], [>]
proposes joint sovereignty with James, [>
