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Mary, Queen of Scots, was buried at Peterborough Cathedral on 1 August 1587 with a heraldic funeral, following her execution at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587. In 1612, her son James VI and I ordered her reburial at Westminster Abbey.
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart [3] or Mary I of Scotland, [4] was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland , Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne.
Railings at Peterborough Cathedral marking the former burial spot of Mary, Queen of Scots. Though she requested that she be buried in France, Mary's request was refused by Elizabeth. [41] Her body was embalmed and left in a secure lead coffin until her burial in a Protestant service at Peterborough Cathedral in late July 1587. [42]
[14] [15] Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots were the last monarchs to be buried with full tomb effigies; monarchs buried after them are commemorated in the abbey with simple inscriptions. [16] In 1760, George II became the last monarch to be buried in the abbey, and George III's brother Henry Frederick became the last member of the royal ...
Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536), Queen of England, first wife and queen-consort of Henry VIII Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), following execution at nearby Fotheringhay Castle , was buried in Peterborough between 1587 and 1612, before being disinterred and reinterred in Westminster Abbey
The casket was acquired for the nation in 2022.
Sir Amias Paulet, Mary's gaoler, is identified as 3, top, seated left below dais; the official witnesses, the Earls of Shrewsbury and Kent, are identified as numbers 1 and 2. Sir Amias Paulet (1532 – 26 September 1588) of Hinton St. George, Somerset, was an English diplomat, Governor of Jersey, and the gaoler for a period of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Over 50 encrypted letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots, have been deciphered, revealing the ill-fated monarch’s meditations on a wide variety of subjects.