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Francis Stewart was a son of John Stewart, Prior of Coldingham (d. 1563), who was an illegitimate child of James V of Scotland by his mistress Elizabeth Carmichael. Francis' mother was Jane Hepburn, Mistress of Caithness, Lady Morham (d. 1599), sister of James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney and 4th Earl of Bothwell.
The Raid of Holyrood was an attack on Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh on 27 December 1591 by Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell in order to gain the favour of King James VI of Scotland. Bothwell subsequently staged a raid at Falkland Palace, and in July 1593 made another attempt at Holyrood. [1]
In December, all Bothwell's titles and estates, including Crichton Castle, were forfeited. In 1568, Crichton Castle, along with Bothwell's other estates, was granted to Francis Stewart, son of John Stewart and Jean Hepburn, and thus bastard grandson of James V. Francis was created Earl of Bothwell in 1577 and married Margaret Douglas. He ...
The House of Stuart — a Scottish royal house, and later English and British royal house. ... Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell; Francis Stuart (sailor)
They ran for two years, and implicated over 70 people. These included Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, [1] on charges of high treason. The "witches" allegedly held their covens on the Auld Kirk Green, part of the modern-day North Berwick Harbour area. Confessions were extracted by torture in the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh.
The English ambassador Robert Bowes noted in July 1591 that Sir William Keith of Delny "lay in bed" once or twice at Morham with the owner, the rebellious Francis Stewart, 1st Earl of Bothwell. In June 1592 James VI sent Sir John Carmichael and James Sandilands to Morham to arrest Bothwell, but they only found a horse belonging to one of his ...
In July 1592, James VI of Scotland gave orders to William Stewart of Traquair to demolish the "place and houssis of Tynneis", and also ordered the demolition of Harden and Dryhope. James Stewart of Tinnis and Walter Scott of Harden had joined in the rebellion of Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell at the Raid of Falkland. [5]
The present house on the site is called "Adam Bothwell's House", after his son. [2] Bothwell was a business partner of Adam Hopper, another Provost [citation needed] and merchant of Edinburgh. In 1529, the year of Hopper's death, they had been exporting fish to England. [3] Bothwell later married Hopper's widow Katherine Bellenden. Francis ...