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	Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
		Mary Stuart, queen of Scots was born on 8 December 1542 at Linlithgow Palace in Scotland.
		Mary was sent to France when she was only six years old to marry Francis II, the Dauphin, in return for Frances's aid in helping the Scottish rid themselves of the English.
		Whether Mary Stuart was the champion of women's rights in the 16th Century as her admirers claim, or the conspiring and murderous woman that her critics claim, she was one of the most interesting women of her time.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/marystuart.html (2589 words)

	Mary Queen of Scots: Biography with portraits
		Mary's father, James V, believed this lineage had ended with his daughter's birth; certainly he never contemplated that in a matter of decades, his grandson would be king of Scotland and their old enemy, England.
		Mary was taken to Lochleven Castle and held prisoner in that island fortress; fearing for her own life, she became desperately ill. She was forced to sign a document abdicating the crown in favor of her year-old son.
		Mary was calm and composed before the several hundred spectators present; she listened while the execution warrant was read and then prayed aloud in English for the Church and her son.
	englishhistory.net /tudor/relative/maryqosbio.html (4317 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mary Queen of Scots
		Mary, however, was sent to France, 7 August, 1548, where she was excellently educated, as is now admitted by both friend and foe.
		Mary's troubles were still further increased by the Huguenot rising in France, called le tumulte d'Amboise (6-17 March, 1560), making it impossible for the French to succour Mary's side in Scotland.
		Mary, though kept a prisoner, managed to escape, and again triumphed over her foes; but respect for her husband was no longer possible.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09764a.htm (2607 words)

	Mary Stuart, the Scottish Queene
		Mary discussed all of this with her counselors, and in the end sighed and told them that they should take whatever methods were necessary to rid her of her husband.
		The noise, of course, was the mighty detonation of kegs of gunpowder at the house at Kirk o'Field.
		Mary may not have been happy in her marriage, but not only was she too proud to bow to the will of such a rabble, but she was pregnant and unwilling to risk her child's legitimacy.
	ladyhedgehog.hedgie.com /mary.html (13361 words)

	Mary Queen of Scots
		Of Mary Queen of Scots, the historian Gordon Donaldson observes: “She must never be thought of as the maker of her own destiny, for her fortunes were shaped at least as much by events as by any qualities or defects in her character, or by anything she did or left undone.
		Mary was imprisoned in the castles of Sheffield, Tutbury, Wingfield, Chartley, and lastly, Fotheringhay.
		Mary wrote to him that she would be glad to be freed from her prison and that if the plot were successful she would reward those involved.
	die_meistersinger.tripod.com /mary.html (3154 words)

	Mary STUART (Queen of Scotland)
		Marie's regency was threatened, however, by the growing influence of the Scottish Protestants, supported secretly by Elizabeth I of England, and was effectively deposed on religious grounds.
		Mary was anxious to continue negotiations with Elizabeth and thought that it would please her if she were to marry one of her subjects.
		Yet, despite Mary’s obvious connection to these plots and despite the urgings of her Privy Council and parliament, Elizabeth did not bring Mary to trial nor condemn her to the executioner’s axe for her complicity.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/MaryStuart.htm (2836 words)

	Mary Stuart, Queen Of Scots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mary Stuart, was born at Linlithge Palace on Dec 8th, 1542, 6 days later she became the Queen of Scotland.
		Mary who was about to become 18 years of age was left in a difficult position.
		Mary was Queen of Scotland from the year 1542 to the year 1567.
	www.ctbw.com /maryscot.htm (416 words)

	Mary Queen of Scots. A short biography of Mary Queen of Scots - essays on Mary Queen of Scots marriages - portraits of ...
		A short biography of Mary Queen of Scots - essays on Mary Queen of Scots marriages - portraits of Marie Stuart's husbands - important dates in the life of Mary Queen of Scots - comments regarding Mary Queen of Scots from her contemporaries, eyewitness account of execution.
		Mary became queen when she was less than a year old and for her own safety was sent to France at the age of six.
		Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587.
	home.earthlink.net /~zzz12 (432 words)

	Amazon.fr : Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart: Livres en anglais: John Guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Though not the first to challenge Mary's femme fatale image, Guy does not even deign to discuss the accusation that she was romantically involved with her Italian secretary Rizzio and convincingly absolves her of involvement in the death of her second husband.
		Hours after the execution, Mary's pet dog, which had managed to hide itself under the folds of her burgundy velvet petticoat, was discovered whimpering and soaked in blood, and could not be persuaded to abandon its mistress's corpse.
		Here is a life of Mary Stuart that painstakingly assembles all the surviving documentary evidence and scrupulously assesses it, weighing the false testimony of her enemies against the whitewashing of her friends.
	www.amazon.fr /Queen-Scots-True-Mary-Stuart/dp/0618619178 (1369 words)

	Amazon.com: Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart: Books: John Guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		MARY STUART was born in the coldest of winters.
		Mary's problem was that her Kingdom had been divided up by clan loyalties for years and the squabbles among the nobles made for an unruly Kingdom.
		Mary is a heroine because she valiantly tried to put the principles of government she studied as a child in France to use in steering the nation of Scotland into the Renaissance and establishing it as an equal among the nations of Europe.
	www.amazon.com /Queen-Scots-True-Mary-Stuart/dp/0618254110 (3476 words)

	Mary Stuart by Alexandre Dumas: CHAPTER IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mary mounted directly and went to meet him; them, as he alighted to greet her, "My lord;" said she, "I surrender to you, on the conditions that you have proposed to me on the part of the nobles, and here is my hand as a sign of entire confidence".
		Several times, then, Mary wished to go to the window, hoping that the sight of her, of which she had so often proved the influence, would disarm this multitude; but each time she saw this banner unfurling itself like a bloody curtain between herself and the people--a terrible rendering of their feelings.
		Mary grew frightfully pale at this want of respect, to which she was not yet accustomed; but quickly containing her anger, as far as possible--
	www.classicauthors.net /Dumas/MaryStuart/MaryStuart4.html (1459 words)

	Mary Stuart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Mary Stuart, Schiller depicts the dynastic struggle between the Protestant Elizabeth, still consolidating power 30 years into her reign as Queen of England, and the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, who's been imprisoned for alleged conspiracy to seize the throne and restore Catholicism to England.
		Perloff sees Mary Stuart as a history play less of the Elizabethan era than of Schiller's time and our own: "This sounds unbelievably cliché'd, but this is an incredibly millennial play.
		Mary Stuart is presented by the Huntington Theatre Company at the Boston University Theatre, March 10 through April 9.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/00/03/09/MARY_STUART.html (810 words)

	Mary I of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mary I of Scotland (Mary Stuart, popularly known as Mary, Queen of Scots); (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587) was the Queen of Scots (the monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland) from December 14, 1542 to July 24, 1567.
		Mary, being a devout Roman Catholic, was regarded with suspicion by many of her subjects as well as by Elizabeth, who was her father's cousin and the monarch of the neighbouring Protestant country.
		Mary refused to acknowledge the power of any court to try her since she was an anointed Queen, and the man ultimately in charge of the prosecution, James Stewart, Earl of Moray, was ruling Scotland in Mary's absence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_I_of_Scotland (6018 words)

	Mary Stuart eBook
		Mary stayed in this priory till Parliament, having approved her marriage with the French dauphin, son of Henry II, she was taken to Dumbarton Castle, to await the moment of departure.
		From Brest, Mary went to St. Germain-en-Laye, where Henry II, who had just ascended the throne, overwhelmed her with caresses, and then sent her to a convent where the heiresses of the noblest French houses were brought up.
		Mary felt this last loss both as woman and as poet; her heart burst forth into bitter tears and plaintive harmonies.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/2744/4.html (329 words)

	Mary's embroideries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mary who was fluent in several languages besides her native Scots and French including Latin, Greek, Italian and Spanish, would have taken pleasure in translating those and playing with the words.
		This was the impresa of Mary's mother, Marie de Guise symbolising how she had recreated a new life for herself after being twice widowed.
		Norfolk at the time of their marriage plans and is most certainly intended to be a message to him: the unfruitful branch of the royal house (Elizabeth) was to be cut down, while the more fruitful branch was to be left to produce more fruits.
	www.marie-stuart.co.uk /embroidery.htm (878 words)

	Glasgow Citizens Theatre - Mary Stuart
		Prowse designed Mary Stuart on a zero budget for the set; nonetheless, when the fl drapes dropped to the floor in a domino effect as Mary goes deliriously free for a while in Fotheringay castle, he achieved one of his most memorable coups.
		A sense of ghostliness extended to the unscripted apparition of the murdered Darnley, whose bloodied head Mary cradled with distracted affection in her lap; the gesture was echoed by Elizabeth's fondling of Leicester.
		The soft French accent she used in Mary Stuart - and for which Philip took the brunt of the accusations of perversity, even though Mary's French childhood and education must have coloured her accent in real life - was actually her own suggestion, willingly adopted by the director as having the right 'colour'.
	members.aol.com /citzsite/citz/gcstuart.htm (436 words)

	Mary Stuart (actress) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stuart would also sing and play guitar on Christmas episodes, including, but not limited to, one notable Christmas in which Stuart sang "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" with actresses Ann Williams and Melissa Murphy, who played her sister and daughter at that time.
		Stuart performed at her first public concert on January 8, 1974, at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina.
		Stuart allegedly picked future soap actor Scott Holmes, who attended Catawba at the time, to be one of her impromptu backup singers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Stuart_(actress) (837 words)

	Mary Stuart - Moviefone
		Mary I of Scotland (Mary Stuart, popularly known as Mary,...
		Mary Stuart was the first member of the royal House of Stuart to use the Gallicised spelling...
		Mary I of Scotland, also known as "Mary, Queen of Scots", wife of King Francis II of France and mother of James I of England...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/mary-stuart/68832/main (144 words)

	Mary Stuart Masterson
		Mary Stuart Masterson is one of those actors.
		Mary shined as the tomboyish mechanic vying with Lea Thompson for Eric Stoltz's attention.
		Both of the Marys were exempt from these nominations, but not from the critical praise that was heaped on them.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/where_are_they_now/62566 (439 words)

	Mary Stuart - Moviefone
		Mary Stuart Masterson Mary Stuart Masterson on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		Catherine Mary Stewart was born on April 22, 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta...
		Mary Stuart Masterson Current Month TV Schedule Tue Dec 26 11:30A on Encore True Channel Tue Dec 26 12:30P on Movie Plex Tue...
	movies.aol.com /movie/mary-stuart/1022487/main (142 words)

	Mary Stuart Masterson: Some Kind Of Webpage
		In 2001, Mary Stuart Masterson starred in the CBS television series Kate Brasher as a single mom who changed her life when she ended up working for a community advocacy center.
		Mary Stuart was joined by Rhea Perlman (Cheers) as lawyer Abbie Schaeffer and Chicago Hope alum Hector Elizondo as center director Joe Almeida.
		A thorough filmography detailing all of Mary Stuart Masterson's appearances in film, television and theater.
	www.mindspring.com /~jjyoung/msm (208 words)

	MARY STUART MASTERSON at HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES
		Her first on-screen appearance (age 7) was with her father, Peter Masterson and Graduate's Katharine Ross, in the 1975 Sci-fi thriller "The Stepford Wives".
		This is possibly Mary's best role and certainly the one she is most remembered for.
		Mary's performance in "Immediate Family" won her a "National Board Of Review" award for "Best Supporting Actress".
	www.hollywoodteenmovies.com /MaryStuartMasterson.html (556 words)

	MARY STUART MASTERSON at THESPIAN NET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mary is the daughter of actor-writer-stage director Peter Masterson and actress Carlyn Glynn.
		She was cast as the daughter of her father's character in the same movie, thus making her feature film debut at the age of nine.
		After this one stint in the movies, Mary's parents decided she would have a more grounded childhood outside the limelight.
	www.thespiannet.com /actresses/S/stuartmasterson_mary/index.shtml (244 words)

	Mary Stuart - Wikimedia Commons
		fr: Marie Ire d'Écosse (Marie Stuart) (8 décembre 1542 - 8 février 1587), aussi connue comme Marie, reine des Écossais, fut reine d'Écosse du 14 décembre 1542 au 24 juillet 1567.
		en: Mary I of Scotland (Mary Stuart or Stewart) (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587), better known as Mary, Queen of Scots, was the ruler of Scotland from December 14, 1542 – July 24, 1567.
		She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her life.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Mary_Stuart (188 words)

	Amazon.com: Mary Stuart: Books: Friedrich Schiller,Eric Bentley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Like Mary Stuart herself and the legends which pursued her to her death, Schiller's drama continues to captivate the modern imagination nearly two centuries later.
		Mary Stuart — Get the latest gossip about your favorite celebrity at Moviefone.
		Schiller begins with presenting Mary as the epitome of passion and misguided sincerity, with Elizabeth as the epitome of rational calculation and statecraft.
	www.amazon.com /Mary-Stuart-Friedrich-Schiller/dp/0936839007 (1189 words)

	Mary Stuart
		Daughter of James V of Scotland and Marie de Guise.
		Became Queen of Scots when she was six days old.
		First married to Francis II of France, then to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
	tudorhistory.org /people/maryQOS (42 words)

	Kate Mulgrew in Mary Stuart
		You decide who the ultimate victor is in this masterpiece on the perils of power.
		Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, imprisoned in England
		This version of Mary Stuart was commissioned by the American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, and first produced at ACT in the spring of 1998.
	www.totallykate.com /marystua/marystua.html (94 words)

	Mary Stuart
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Mary Stuart to receive a rating.
		Set in 16th century Europe, Gaetano Donizetti's colorful opera explores the turbulent life of Mary Stuart, the Queen of Scots.
		Marked by scandal, intense rivalry, and ultimately execution, Stuart's tumultuous life has become a popular subject of books, television, film, and theatre.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/mary_stuart (335 words)

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