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Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The Descendants of Mary Stuart written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Stedall
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846246466
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Challenge to the Crown written by Robert Stedall and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Queen of Scots: Catholic martyr or manipulative femme fatale On 10 February 1567, conspirators bent on killing Henry, Lord Darnley, King-Consort of Mary Queen of Scots successfully razed his Edinburgh residence at Kirk o' Field in a huge explosion. Soon afterwards, Darnley's partially-clothed body was discovered in a nearby orchard, strangled to death by an unknown assailant. Rumours of Mary's involvement in his murder quickly surfaced. Placards across Edinburgh implied that she had provoked the Earl of Bothwell into killing her husband in a crime of passion. This became more plausible when she tried to avoid having to prosecute him for the murder, and subsequently married him, encouraged by her most senior Protestant nobles. While Mary's motives for the marriage might be explained by her need for his protection, those of the Nobility who had encourage it are confusing. Why would they want a union, which would inevitably place Bothwell, a man they hated, as head of government? Was their motif to associate her in the murder plot? Mary's involvement in Darnley's murder has remained one of the great historical mysteries. Genealogist and author Robert Stedall has spent ten years researching the inter-marriages within Scottish peerage to provide an explanation for their motives in removing Mary from the throne. In this first volume, of his two volume history of Mary and James, he explains in vivid detail the switching allegiances of the nobility, and can reveal for the first time, the gripping true story of Mary's downfall and imprisonment.
Author : Friedrich Schiller
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Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Mary Stuart written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Mary (Queen of Scots)
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Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. [By James Grant.] written by Mary (Queen of Scots) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Dunn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425746
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth and Mary written by Jane Dunn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb.... A perceptive, suspenseful account." --The New York Times Book Review "Dunn demythologizes Elizabeth and Mary. In humanizing their dynamic and shifting relationship, Dunn describes it as fueled by both rivalry and their natural solidarity as women in an overwhelmingly masculine world." --Boston Herald The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books have brought to life more vividly the exquisite texture of two women’s rivalry, spurred on by the ambitions and machinations of the forceful men who surrounded them. The drama has terrific resonance even now as women continue to struggle in their bid for executive power. Against the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints portraits of a pair of protagonists whose formidable strengths were placed in relentless opposition. Protestant Elizabeth, the bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn, whose legitimacy had to be vouchsafed by legal means, glowed with executive ability and a visionary energy as bright as her red hair. Mary, the Catholic successor whom England’s rivals wished to see on the throne, was charming, feminine, and deeply persuasive. That two such women, queens in their own right, should have been contemporaries and neighbours sets in motion a joint biography of rare spark and page-turning power.
Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307431479
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley written by Alison Weir and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn. Handsome, accomplished, and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, staked his claim to the English throne by marrying Mary Stuart, who herself claimed to be the Queen of England. It was not long before Mary discovered that her new husband was interested only in securing sovereign power for himself. Then, on February 10, 1567, an explosion at his lodgings left Darnley dead; the intrigue thickened after it was discovered that he had apparently been suffocated before the blast. After an exhaustive reevaluation of the source material, Alison Weir has come up with a solution to this enduring mystery. Employing her gift for vivid characterization and gripping storytelling, Weir has written one of her most engaging excursions yet into Britain’s bloodstained, power-obsessed past.
Author : Emma Siggins White
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Genealogy of the descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland written by Emma Siggins White and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1902-01-01 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Descendants of Joseph Bolles Sr. (1608-1678) and His Wife Mary (1624-?) written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Bolles was born in 1608 in England. He married Mary in about 1640. They had eight children. He died in 1678 in Wells, Maine. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont.
Author : Joseph H. Wenger
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of the Descendants of Nicholas Beery, Born in 1707 written by Joseph H. Wenger and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Stuart
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030796115X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Sugar in the Blood written by Andrea Stuart and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide, would not only lift George Ashby from abject poverty and shape the lives of his descendants, but it would also bind together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers in a strangling embrace. Stuart uses her own family story—from the seventeenth century through the present—as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas. As it grew, the sugar trade enriched Europe as never before, financing the Industrial Revolution and fuelling the Enlightenment. And, as well, it became the basis of many economies in South America, played an important part in the evolution of the United States as a world power and transformed the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches. But this sweet and hugely profitable trade—“white gold,” as it was known—had profoundly less palatable consequences in its precipitation of the enslavement of Africans to work the fields on the islands and, ultimately, throughout the American continents. Interspersing the tectonic shifts of colonial history with her family’s experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery with extraordinary subtlety and sensitivity. In examining how these forces shaped her own family—its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin—she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day. Shifting between personal and global history, Stuart gives us a deepened understanding of the connections between continents, between black and white, between men and women, between the free and the enslaved. It is a story brought to life with riveting and unparalleled immediacy, a story of fundamental importance to the making of our world.
Author : Erskine Norman White
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Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Norman White, His Ancestors and His Descendants written by Erskine Norman White and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman White was born 8 August 1805 in Andover, Connecticut. His parents were Daniel White and Eunice Stanley. His grandparents were David White, Sarah Hale, Moses Stanley and Eunice Strong. He married Mary Abiah Dodge, daughter of David Low Dodge and Sarah Cleveland, 15 October 1828. They had eleven children. He died 13 June 1883 in New Rochelle, New York.
Author : Robert Stedall
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147389333X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Mary Queen of Scots' Downfall written by Robert Stedall and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Scottish ruler—and the mysterious death of her ambitious and controversial husband. In the early hours of February 10, 1567, a large explosion ripped through the lodgings at Kirk o’ Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scotland’s consort, Henry, Lord Darnley, was staying. Darnley’s body was found with that of his valet in a neighboring garden the next morning. The queen’s husband had been murdered—and the ramifications for Mary and Scottish history would be far-reaching. Lord Darnley cuts an infamous figure in Scottish and Tudor history. In life, he proved a controversial character, and his murder at Kirk o’ Field remains one of British history’s great unsolved mysteries—the question of whether Mary was implicated has taxed historians ever since. In this engaging and well-researched biography, Robert Stedall reexamines Darnley’s life and his death. His investigation brings new light and compelling conclusions to a story surrounded by political betrayal, murder, falsified evidence, and conspiracy.
Author : Elias Loomis
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Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis written by Elias Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Goodare
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788854179
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Reign of James VI written by Julian Goodare and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2000-01-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of James VI (1567–1625) remains one of the most enigmatic in Scottish history. There are long periods within it that resemble black holes in our knowledge. This study is a concerted attempt by a group of ten scholars of the reign, drawn from three different disciplines, to shed light on its politics and government, viewed through various perspectives. These include the royal court, which is analysed through its literature, architecture and ceremony; noble factionalism; relations with England; a revised model of tensions between church and state; and the relationship between the government and the Highlands, the Borders and the south west, a future region of opposition to Charles I. This study also analyses James as a literary author, correspondent, husband and 'universal king'. The book offers alternatives to accepted views of the reign, dismissing both Melvillianism and 'laissez faire monarchy' as useful tools. It sees the centre of politics as the interaction between an expanded and increasingly expensive royal court and a phenomenal growth of the state, based on a huge increase in legislation and the business of the Privy Council.
Author : John D. Baldwin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368858343
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book A Record of the Descendants of Capt. George Denison, of Stonington, Conn. With Notices of his Father and Brothers, and Some Account of Other Denisons who Settled in America in the Colony Times written by John D. Baldwin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : Allan Massie
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 142995082X
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Royal Stuarts written by Allan Massie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history."--The Wall Street Journal In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries. Told with panache, this is the gripping true story of backstabbing, betrayal, and ambition gone awry.
Author : Stuart Ellett Brown
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806352426
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Fourth and Fifth Corrections and Additions to Pocahontas' Descendants written by Stuart Ellett Brown and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A list of the descendants of Pocahontas compiled by The Pocahontas Foundation.
