* 1600 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland ( later to become King James I of England ) takes place.

Andrewes preached regularly and submissively before King James and his court on the anniversaries of the Gowrie Conspiracy and the Gunpowder Plot.

* December-A report from December indicates that the King's Men are performing a play on the politically sensitive subject of the Gowrie Conspiracy ; the play was suppressed and has not survived — but did not impact the company's general success.

He befriended many of the great Norse philologists of the time and came across Skotlands rímur, dealing with the Gowrie Conspiracy.

Fulton began his professional acting career as a straight actor, mostly appearing in repertory theatre and BBC Radio, including The Gowrie Conspiracy in 1947.

* Icelandic Ballads on the Gowrie Conspiracy, ed.

* The Gowrie Conspiracy, by Samuel Cowan, available through Google Books

The reputation of the Ruthvens as assassins was strengthened by a mysterious affair which became known as the " Gowrie Conspiracy " in 1600.

One last Scottish attempt against the king's person occurred in August 1600, when James was apparently assaulted by Alexander Ruthven, the Earl of Gowrie's younger brother, at Gowrie House, the seat of the Ruthvens.

James eventually escaped and actually forgave Gowrie, but after a second abortive attempt by Gowrie and others to overthrow him, Gowrie was finally executed and his property ( including Huntingtower ) was forfeited to the crown.

The earl's sons were slain in the attempt ( known as the Gowrie conspiracy ) to capture James VI ( 1600 ), consequent on which the Scots parliament ordered the name of Ruthven to be abolished, and the barony to be known in future as Huntingtower.

In the so-called Gowrie conspiracy, Ruthven was killed in Gowrie House in Perth, possibly in an abortive attempt to take James VI prisoner.

John and Alexander Ruthven were killed in Gowrie House during an alleged attempt on the person of James VI.

The 17th-century historian of the Douglas family, David Hume of Godscroft laid the blame for their loss on Robert's mother, Agnes Leslie, Countess of Morton, for her attempt in 1584 to prevent them supporting the Earl of Gowrie, which was considered misguided.

He died while attempting to kidnap King James VI in August 1600, during an event later known as the Gowrie conspiracy.

Although all three theories have had historical proponents, most modern scholarship suggests that there was a genuine conspiracy by Gowrie and his brother to kidnap King James, and that the events unfolded as follows:

Gowrie was involved in a plot to kidnap the young King James VI, son of Mary, Queen of Scots.

When James tried to command her, she warned him to take care how he treated her because she was not the Earl of Gowrie.

In August 1582, in what became known as the Ruthven Raid, the Protestant earls of Gowrie and Angus lured James into Ruthven Castle, imprisoned him, and forced Lennox to leave Scotland.

Most of the airport is now on Section 14, " Gowrie Park ", owned by the Ritchies of Aucholzie, James Lane and Donovan during most of the years until airport acquisitions began.

On 23 August 1581 William Ruthven, 4th Lord Ruthven, was created Earl of Gowrie by James VI, King of the Scots.

* James Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie ( 1575 – 1588 )

It was created in 1621 by James VI for his friend and helper Sir David Murray who had saved him from the attack of Earl Gowrie in 1600.

In 1593, a plot against James was discovered, and the King surprised the conspirators, who included the Earls of Montrose and Gowrie, at Doune Castle.

His career had evidently survived the temporary imprisonment of James by a militant Protestant faction led by the Earl of Gowrie, and the exile and death of Esmé Stewart, whom James had made Duke of Lennox.

After the Raid of Ruthven in 1582 Angus returned to Scotland and was reconciled to King James, but soon afterwards the king shook off the control of the Earls of Mar and Gowrie, and Angus was again banished from Court.

Firstly, that Gowrie and his brother, Alexander Ruthven, lured King James ( at that time king only of Scotland ) to Gowrie House for the purpose of either murdering or kidnapping him, that James paid a surprise visit to Gowrie House with the intention of murdering the two Ruthvens, or that the events were the outcome of an unpremeditated brawl between the king and the earl or his brother.

Alexander advised the king that he and his brother had detained a foreigner carrying a large quantity of money at Gowrie House in Perth, and urged James to interrogate the man himself.

James, in the company of ten to fifteen retainers, arrived at Gowrie House at about one o ' clock in the afternoon.

James fueled this belief with his pursuit of the two younger Gowrie brothers, who were unquestionably innocent of any involvement.

it: Alexander Hore-Ruthven, I conte di Gowrie

Her address was described by Lord Gowrie, her debating partner, as ' the best speech I have heard on the Arts in 30 years '.

His son John Ruthven, Earl of Gowrie ( 1577 ?– 1600 ), continued the family tradition of intrigue by offering to serve Queen Elizabeth I, then leading the opposition to James VI.

Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie PC, FRSL ( born 26 November 1939 ), usually known as Grey Gowrie, was a Conservative Party politician for some years, including a period in the British Cabinet, and was later Chairman of Sotheby's and of the Arts Council of England.

The so-called Gowrie conspiracy of 1600, in which the young Earl of Gowrie, John Ruthven, and his brother Alexander Ruthven were killed by James's attendants for a supposed assault on the King, triggered the dismissal of their sisters Beatrix and Barbara Ruthven as ladies-in-waiting to Anne, with whom they were " in chiefest credit.

Two years later in 1586, the attainder was reversed and his son, the second Earl, was restored as Earl of Gowrie and Lord Ruthven, but both peerages were forfeited after the alleged plot and subsequent death of the second Earl's younger brother, the third Earl, in 1600.

Alexander Ruthven, third son of the first Earl of the first creation, took part in the Gowrie conspiracy of 1600, was condemned for treason and hung, drawn and quartered.

* John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie ( 1576 – 1600 )

John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie ( c. 1577 – 5 August 1600 ) was a Scottish nobleman, the second son of William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie and his wife Dorothea Stewart.

He was killed by the king's attendants in 1600 and the earldom of Gowrie went extinct until 1945.

Ruthven Castle's name was officially changed to Huntingtower in 1600 after the Gowrie House conspiracy.