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 Hepburn (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francis Stewart Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell (nephew of James, 4th Earl of Bothwell)
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (son of Patrick, 3rd Earl of Bothwell) - lover and third husband of Queen Mary I of Scotland.
Hepburn is a Scottish family name that is also associated with a variety of famous personages, eponyms, places, and things.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hepburn   (269 words)

  
 Hepburn's of Bothwell Genealogy
The father of Francis Stewart Hepburn was Lord John Stewart, son of king James V of Scotland, and Elisabeth, daughter of lord john Carmichall.
Francis Stewart Hepburn was married to Lady Margaret Douglas, eldest daughter of David, 7th Earl of Angus.
At the death of James, 4th Earl, his only nephew, Francis Stewart, added the name of Hepburn to his own, and claimed to be the 5th Earl of Bothwell.
www.dwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /page28.htm   (267 words)

  
 Francis Stewart Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell
Francis Stewart Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell was born in 1563.
Hepburn felt that the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots should result in an invasion of England, a course of action his cousin, the king disagreed with.
He was a nephew of James Hepburn, the Fourth Earl of Bothwell and a grandson of James V of Scotland.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/francis_stewart_hepburn__1st_earl_of_bothwell   (283 words)

  
 BOTHWELL - LoveToKnow Article on BOTHWELL
He left no lawful descendants; but his nephew, FRANCIS STEWART HEPBURN, who, through his father, John Stewart, prior of Coldingham, was a grandson of King James V., and was thus related to Mary, queen of Scots, and the regent Murray, was in 1581 created earl of Bothwell.
The lordship was bestowed in 1487 on Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Lord Hailes, 1St earl of Bothwell, who resigned it in 1491 in favor of Archibald Douglas, 5th earl of Angus.
James Hepburn succeeded in 1556 to his fathers titles, lands and hereditary offices, inchiding that of lord high admiral of Scotland.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BO/BOTHWELL.htm   (2296 words)

  
 Mary, Queen of Scots
Francis ended up with an Ear infection during a hunting trip and died a little more than a year after the two were married.
She was but seventeen years old, the youthful bride of Francis, who was about her own age, when the death of Henry II.
1559 - July 10th, Henri II of France died - Francis became King
www.royalstuarts.org /mary_1.htm   (2475 words)

  
 Chapter 2 - The Witch-Cult in Western Europe
Francis, afterwards Earl of Bothwell, was the eldest son of John Stewart and Jane Hepburn, sister of that Earl of Bothwell whom Mary Queen of Scots married.
Francis might therefore claim to be the next heir male to the throne of Scotland, and possibly of England, had James VI died without children.
His father, Lord John Stewart, was an illegitimate son of James V. The Pope, however, legitimized all the natural children of James V; and Mary, after her accession, granted letters of legitimation[1] to her two half-brothers, John Stewart, and James, afterwards the Regent Moray.
www.pagannation.com /pagan_library/witch_cult/02.htm   (6861 words)

  
 Traditions and Stories of Scottish Castles - Hermitage Castle
The story of Francis Stewart or Hepburn, fifth and last Earl of Bothwell, was hardly less eventful and exciting than that of his predecessor.
The sister of this Earl was married to John Stewart, Prior of Coldingham, a natural son of James V., and became the mother of Francis Stewart, another turbulent nobleman, who was created by James VI.
The second Earl of Bothwell fell on the Field of Flodden, and the third Earl, his successor, died in 1556, leaving a son, afterwards the notorious James Hepburn, fourth Earl of Bothwell, whose marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots, led to his downfall.
www.electricscotland.com /history/castles/hermitage.htm   (1225 words)

  
 The Gunpowder Plot Society
The Stewart kings had a lamentable habit of dying young; the political nation had to cope with the consequences, and cope remarkably well it had done.
Elevated to the earldom of Lennox (the existing holder of the title, Robert Stewart, bishop of Caithness, having yielded to royal pressure to resign it) in 1580 and then raised to a dukedom in 1581, Lennox was loathed as a pro-French Catholic who enjoyed all too much of the king's favour.
Unlike his mother, he was not obsessed by dreams of the English throne, but reverted to the earlier Stewart tradition of an inflated pride in kingship of Scotland, inflated because their kingdom was in fact remote and impoverished, but highly effective in that it encouraged their subjects to think likewise.
www.gunpowder-plot.org /james.asp   (18158 words)

  
 Hotel Bothwell
Francis Stewart Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell (1563-1612) Bothwell ja:ボスウェル伯
The lordship was bestowed in 1487 on Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Lord Hailes, 1st earl of Bothwell, who resigned it in 1491 in favor of Archibald Douglas, 5th earl of Angus, known as "Bell-the-Cat".
The title Duke of Orkney was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1567 for James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, with the subsidiary title ''Marquess of Fife''.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/89/hotel-bothwell.html   (1228 words)

  
 Seers and Witchcraft
Margaret Fleming's son by her third marriage, John Stewart, 25th Earl of Atholl, was one of the conspirators who, in 1593, helped her to smuggle her great-grandson Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, into the King's bedroom.
Francis Humberston Mackenzie, born 1754, deaf and dumb from scarlet fever in 1766, succeeded as chief in 1783.
Angus's death was believed to have been ?nancially bene?cial to the husband of his sister Margaret, the Arch-Dianist Patrick Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, (his sister having previously been married to the grandson of "Wicked Wat").
www.baronage.co.uk /bphtm-02/moa-05.html   (1265 words)

  
 Sotheby's - Services & Information - Investor Relations
Katharine Hepburn's mother was a noted suffragist and feminist who, after the death of her own mother, fought the wishes of her guardian to attend college.
Katharine Hepburn's fans will also have the rare chance to acquire such personal items as her passports, ranging from the 1920s to the 1970s, which are filled with evidence of her extensive travels.
Miss Hepburn and most of the rest of the crew were felled by stomach sickness caused by polluted bottled drinking water, while Bogart and director John Huston, who "had so lined their insides with alcohol that no bug could live in the atmosphere " were absolutely fine.
www.shareholder.com /bid/news/20040316-131044.cfm   (2445 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited dummy Day 296
Francis Stewart Hepburn, the Earl of Bothwell and successor to the notorious regicide husband of Mary Queen of Scots, was decidedly a chip off the old block.
In 1591 he was sensationally accused of wizardry: King James VI, a deeply superstitious young man, claimed that the storm which almost cost his life during his homeward voyage with the new queen, Anne of Denmark, had been caused by a spell cast by the earl.
In England, a hitherto unknown playwright saw the first productions of his work: Titus Andronicus and Henry IV, part I, by William Shakespeare.
www.guardian.co.uk /Millennium/0,2833,-1590,00.html   (586 words)

  
 Hepburn's of Bothwell Genealogy page six
In the regard to the right of Francis Stewart Hepburn to the title of 5th Earl of Bothwell, I find that Burke in his "General Armory of Great Britan," agrees with the other authorities and gives Francis the 5th Earl.
The mother of Francis Stewart Hepburn was Jean Hepburn, the only sister of James, 4th earl of Bothwell.
According to this account, Sir Adam Hepburn, from Northumberland, in England was the founder of the Hepburn family in Scotland.
www.dwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /page30.htm   (190 words)

  
 LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Fr'
Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
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encyclopedia.learnthis.info /f/fr   (63 words)

  
 328.html
Mary married first, Francis II of France (1544-1560)...and 2nd married Darnley (1545-1567), and James VI of Scotland and I of England was born...uniting the Stuart and Tudor thrones of both England and Scotland.......
Margaret (1489-1541) of the Tudor Line of England married James IV of Scotland (1473-1513) and thus the Stewart Line was begun in Scotland....
James V of Scotland (1512-1542) married first Marie of Guise-Lorraine (1515-1560) and Mary Stewart, "Queen Of Scotts" was born (1542-1587).
home.comcast.net /~ric-howard/HFEN/328.html   (378 words)

  
 Traditions and Stories of Scottish Castles - Fowlis Castle
He was exiled from Scotland for impeding the marriage of the King with Anne of Denmark in 1587, but returned shortly after, and joined with the traitor Francis Stewart Hepburn, who attempted in 1592 to capture the King at Falkland.
Jane Gray to Francis, Earl of Moray, the proprietorship of Fowlis Castle would have passed to that family; but after Cromwell’s invasion the fines he levied on the Royalists told so heavily upon the Gray family that the Castle and grounds had to be sold in 1669 to Sir William Murray of Ochtertyre, Baronet.
He betrayed Mary’s secrets to the Scottish Privy Council and the Governor Arran; concluded an agreement with Elizabeth and James to the exclusion of Mary from the throne, while acting as Ambassador to England; and formally protested against the condemnation of Mary, but secretly advised her assassination.
www.electricscotland.com /history/castles/fowlis.htm   (2932 words)

  
 Earl of Bothwell Francis
There has been a great amount published on James Hepburn Earl of Bothwell, but not his nephew Francis Stewart Hepburn 5th Earl of Bothwell.
There are many stories of black magic etc. surrounding Francis, but who knows.
Mary Queen of Scot's nephew and next in line to the throne of Scotland after her son James V1 of Scotland and James 1 of England.
www.hebborn.btinternet.co.uk /bothwell_francis.htm   (77 words)

  
 Search Results for Hepburn - Encyclopædia Britannica
He evidently engineered the murder of Mary's second husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, thereby precipitating the revolt of the Scottish nobles and Mary's...
Features a filmography, photographs, and details on the "The Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund" for the cause of underprivileged children.
Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th earl of, Duke Of Orkney And Shetland
www.britannica.com /search?query=Hepburn&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (379 words)

  
 Uktravel.com - Castle Guide
The castle and title passed from the Hepburns to Francis Stewart, Earl of Bothwell, then to the Scotts of Buccleuch about 1600.
In 1566 James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, was badly wounded in a skirmish with the Border reiver 'Little Jock' Elliot of Park, and was paid a visit on his sick bed by Mary, Queen of Scots, who had ridden all the way from Jedburgh.
In 1492 Archibald, 5th Earl of Angus, was forced to exchange Hermitage for Bothwell with Patrick Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell.
www.uktravel.com /castlecontent.asp?timeID=Hermitage&offset=0   (493 words)

  
 background
In Scotland the Hepburns attained the dignity of Lord Hailes (1451) and in 1488 of Earl of Bothwell, the last Hepburn Earl being the husband of Queen Mary.
Patrick de Hepburn, Younger of Hailes "miles magnanimus et athleta bellcosus ", received safe conduct from Edward 111 in 1362 to visit the tomb of St. Thomas of Canterbury and in 1364 to pursue his studies at Oxford, he and his father greatly contributed to Scottish victory at Otterburn 1388, m.
The situation of Hebborn Township is at the foot of Hepburn Wood, this forms part of a scenic plantation of various tree’s, flowers, bird’s (sparrow hawk’s, peregrine falcon’s etc) on a nature reserve which holds many ancient antiquities, such as a four thousand year old burial ground.
www.hebborn.btinternet.co.uk /background.htm   (14038 words)

  
 Magic
The king's cousin, James Hepburn Stewart, 5th earl of Bothwell, an arrogant, intelligent, and rash man, was also accused of witchcraft.
There is a flashback where Brenden is imprisoned with James Hepburn (Bothwell) at Dragsholm in Denmark.
After their return in 1590, a series of witchcraft trials began in the Lowlands that eventually culminated in confessions of conspiring to kill the king through witchcraft (raising the afore mentioned storms, pacts with the devil, wax images, etc.).
www.jenholling.romance-central.com /magic.htm   (2235 words)

  
 Ona
Not many years later, perhaps in the early forties, Robert Stewart, formerly of Bath County, moved to the neighborhood and taught several terms in the community school building on the south side of the present paved road near Ona.
Stewart, Porter Wallace of Botetourte County taught for several years in the same building.
About the same time William Hepburn and his son-in-law John Dundas, of Alexandria, Virginia, secured title to the land extending from the falls of Mud River nearly to Barboursville.
www.wvculture.org /history/agrext/ona.html   (5800 words)

  
 DARNLEY, HENRY STEWART - Online Information article about DARNLEY, HENRY STEWART
marriage with Mary, queen of Scots, the widow of Francis, as a means to this end.
DARNLEY, HENRY STEWART - Online Information article about DARNLEY, HENRY STEWART
Consequently in 1561 both Lady Margaret and her son, who were English subjects, were imprisoned by Elizabeth ; but they were soon released,,and Darnley spent some See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /DAH_DEM/DARNLEY_HENRY_STEWART.html   (1235 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
In the 1580s, King James openly kissed Francis Stewart Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell.
He sought to deflect Parliament by offering Francis Bacon as a sacrifice on bribery charges, and covertly encouraged Commons' outrage over foreign policy in the hope James would opt for a dissolution.
The Duke of Buckingham was under pressure because of royal spending and the Spanish marriage policy.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /James_I_of_England   (2306 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Exhibit
From the end of 1591 James suffered from personal attacks directed against him by Francis Stewart, a nephew of his mother's third husband, to whom he had given the title of Earl of Bothwell [see Hepburn, Francis Stewart].
The commons, however, persisted in their demand, and Buckingham at last grew frightened, and by his persuasion James sent a message to the commons on the 13th declaring his readiness to redress the grievances of which they complained.
Morton was seized, and on the charge of complicity with Darnley's murder was condemned to death, and executed on 2 June 1581.
www.thepeerage.com /e74.htm   (15062 words)

  
 50 Greatest Movies from TV Guide
James Stewart stars, of course, as the acrophobic detective drawn into a complex murder plot by a cool, mysterious blonde (Kim Novak).
The leopard-quick dialogue, Katharine Hepburn's loopy heiress, Cary Grant's hapless zoologist and a great menagerie of secondary characters couldn't be better.
Aside from establishing its cast (Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall, to name a few) as the premier actors of their generation -- and of one of Hollywood's richest eras -- Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece is the cinematic equivalent of an un-put-downable book: Just try watching for only a few minutes.
www.filmsite.org /tvguide2.html   (2519 words)

  
 Bertrice Small: Bookshelf
Her marriage destroyed, Cat falls in love with Francis Stewart-Hepburn, the dashing Earl of Bothwell.
Cyra's beautiful great-granddaughter, Cat Leslie, is happily married to her Patrick until the king's lust invades their life.
Thwarted in their marriages plans by their jealous king, both flee abroad.
www.bertricesmall.com /bookshelf3.htm   (386 words)

  
 Classification of stillbirth by relevant condition at death (ReCoDe): population based cohort study -- Gardosi et al. 331 (7525): 1113 -- BMJ
Hepburn M, Rosenberg K. An audit of the detection and management of small-for-gestational age babies.
Clausson B, Gardosi J, Francis A, Cnattingius S. Perinatal outcome in SGA births defined by customised versus population based birthweight standards.
MacLennan A. A template for defining a causal relation between acute intrapartum events and cerebral palsy: international consensus statement.
bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/331/7525/1113?ehom   (1918 words)

  
 Border Clan Scott - History and Genealogy
Francis, 83, M. Francis married Isabel Scott, 84, F. Margaret, 87, F. Commonly called "Maggy Fendy," she was married to Gilbert Eliott_of_Minto, 88, M, "Gibbie wi' the gowden garters." (See http://members.home.com/ecs-webmaster/ECShistory.html.)
Sir Walter Scott was himself principal Chamberlain, and in 1603 obtained letters of horning against Sir William stewart of Traquair for :93, 6s, 8d., part of a tax raised for the baptism of the prince.
He had a natural son JOHN, probably the John Scott, Provost of Crichton, who received from Earl Francis in 1643 a gift of 400 merks "for advancing his fortoun." John died in 1646.
www.james.com /border_scott   (14604 words)

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