Her mother, Marie de Guise, stayed in Scotland to look after the interests of Mary — and of France — although the Earl of Arran acted officially as regent.

* Mary of Guise ( 1515 – 1560 ), Queen Consort of James V of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots

April 12: Mary of Guise.

* April 12 – Mary of Guise becomes Regent of Scotland.

He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent of Scotland, Mary of Guise.

The movement may be seen as a revolution, since it led to the ousting of Mary of Guise, who governed the country in the name of her young daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots.

In December 1543, James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault, the appointed regent for the infant Mary, Queen of Scots, had decided with the Queen Mother, Mary of Guise, and Dr David Cardinal Beaton to persecute the Protestant sect that had taken root in Scotland.

While Hamilton was willing to negotiate with England to stop their support of the rebels and bring the castle back under his control, Mary of Guise decided that it could only be taken by force and requested the king of France, Henry II to intervene.

Though the Queen Regent, Mary of Guise, made no move to act against Knox, his activities caused concern among the church authorities.

The women rulers that Knox had in mind were Queen Mary I of England and Mary of Guise, the Dowager Queen of Scotland and regent on behalf of her daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots.

Mary of Guise gathered those nobles loyal to her and a small French army.

The Lords of the Congregation negotiated their withdrawal from Edinburgh by the Articles of Leith signed 25 July 1559, and Mary of Guise promised freedom of conscience.

Knox was indiscreet and news of his mission soon reached Mary of Guise.

This time, on 24 October 1559, the Scottish nobility formally deposed Mary of Guise from the regency.

The sudden death of Mary of Guise in Edinburgh Castle on 10 June 1560 paved the way for an end to hostilities, the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh, and the withdrawal of French and English troops from Scotland.

* November 22 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland ( d. 1560 )

* Mary of Guise ( 1515 – 1560 ), Queen Consort to James V of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots ; regent of Scotland 1544-1560

Their sister Mary of Guise had married James V of Scotland in 1538 and was the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

CBC won the lawsuit as U. S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Medler ruled that statistics are part of the public domain and can be used at no cost by fantasy companies.

Two monarchs have ruled simultaneously in some countries, as in the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta or the joint sovereignty of spouses or relatives ( e. g., William and Mary of Kingdom of England and Scotland, Peter and Ivan of Russia, Charles and Joanna of Castile, etc.

Louis envisaged both his crowns passing to Mary, but his Polish subjects assumed they would be ruled by Mary, while the Hungarian crown would devolve upon Hedwig.

In the British Isles, William ruled jointly with his wife, Mary II, until her death on 28 December 1694.

His grandfather, James II of England and VII of Scotland, had ruled the country from 1685 to 1689, at which time he was deposed when Parliament invited the Dutch Protestant, William of Orange and his wife the Princess Mary ( King James ' eldest daughter ) to replace him, in the Revolution of 1688.

Subsequently, Guelders was ruled by Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, husband of Charles the Bold's daughter and heir, Mary.

Heinlein's vivid depiction of a Heaven ruled by snotty angels and a Hell where everyone has a wonderful, or at least productive, time — with Mary Magdalene shuttling breezily between both places — is a satire on American evangelical Christianity.

She needed to win support for her pro-French policies, and they could expect no alternative support from England, when Mary Tudor ruled.

He was supposedly a Protestant by faith at a time when Mary I of England, a Catholic monarch, ruled and he had to gain an income as best he could, choosing robbery as his trade as his religion had him marked out as a rebel already and his high status meant that he could rely on any advantage or protection from others.

Percy Saint of St. Mary Parish was reelected to a second term as attorney general independent of Long and several times ruled against Long during the gubernatorial term.

The last ruler of Jever was Mary of Jever, who ruled until 1575.

Mary of Burgundy ( 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482 ) ruled the Burgundian territories in Low Countries and was suo jure Duchess of Burgundy from 1477 until her death.

After Mary died in 1694, William ruled alone until his death in 1702.

During the reign of Queen Mary I of England ( 1553 – 58 ), a number of Protestant scholars fled from England to Geneva in Switzerland, which was then ruled as a republic in which John Calvin and, later, Theodore Beza provided the primary spiritual and theological leadership.

The New Jersey court ruled that the surrogacy contract was invalid according to public policy, recognized Mary Beth Whitehead as the child's legal mother, and ordered the Family Court to determine whether Whitehead, as mother, or Stern, as father, should have legal custody of the infant, using the conventional ' best interests of the child ' analysis.

With the removal of James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, his daughter Mary, and her husband Prince William of Orange ruled jointly by agreement as co-monarchs.

With the removal of James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, his daughter Mary, and her husband Prince William of Orange ruled jointly by agreement as co-monarchs.

With the removal of James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, his daughter Mary, and her husband Prince William of Orange ruled jointly by agreement as co-monarchs.

With the removal of James II in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, his daughter Mary, and her husband Prince William of Orange ruled jointly by agreement as co-monarchs.

Later, Queen Mary I ruled that the Earls of Oxford were indeed entitled to the office of Lord Great Chamberlain on an hereditary basis.

He was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland to Alexander Mackenzie Sr. and Mary Stewart Fleming.

* 1561 – An 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.

Pius IV sent the decrees to Mary, Queen of Scots, with a letter dated June 13, 1564, requesting her to publish them in Scotland, but she dared not do it in the face of John Knox and the Reformation.

When Mary returned to Scotland in 1561 to take up the reins of power, the country had an established Protestant church and was run by a council of Protestant nobles supported by Elizabeth.

Rather than risk returning Mary to Scotland with an English army or sending her to France and the Catholic enemies of England, they detained her in England, where she was imprisoned for the next nineteen years.

In 1585 negotiations were underway for King James to come to England to discuss the release of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, and in March Oxford was to be sent to Scotland as one of the hostages for James's safety.

* 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o ' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.

The queen ran afoul of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, who was a devoted Catholic and had been forced to abdicate her throne as a consequence ( Scotland had recently become Protestant ).

When Francis himself died, Mary, now nineteen, elected to return to Scotland to take up the government in a hostile environment.

Whilst William and Mary accepted limits on royal power, under the Bill of Rights ( a contract between themselves and the English parliament ), Scotland had an equivalent document in the Claim of Rights.

The Scottish medieval clàrsach ' Queen Mary harp ' Clàrsach na Banrigh Màiri, ( c. 1400 ) now in the Museum of Scotland, is a one of only three surviving medieval Gaelic harps.

Three pre-16th century examples survive today ; the Brian Boru Harp in Trinity College, Dublin, and the Queen Mary and Lamont Harps, both in Scotland.

* 1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.

* 1702 – Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

* 1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.

* Mary of Modena ( 1658 – 1718 ), Queen Consort of King James II of England and VII of Scotland

Mary II ( 30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694 ) was joint Sovereign of England, Scotland, and Ireland with her husband and first cousin, William III and II, from 1689 until her death.

In the absence of any children, Philip was concerned that after Mary and Elizabeth, one of the next claimants to the English throne was the Queen of Scotland, who was betrothed to the Dauphin of France.

The Latin inscription on their tomb, Regno consortes et urna, hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores, in spe resurrectionis ( affixed there by James VI of Scotland when he succeeded Elizabeth as King James I of England ) translates to " Consorts in realm and tomb, here we sleep, Elizabeth and Mary, sisters, in hope of resurrection ".

# Mary of Scotland, married Eustace III of Boulogne