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Mary, Queen of Scots

1542 - 1587

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Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, 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. During her childhood, Scotland was governed by regents, first by the heir to the throne, James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, and then by her mother, Mary of Guise. In 1548, she was betrothed to Francis, the Dauphin of France, and was sent to be brought up in France, where she would be safe from invading English forces during the Rough Wooing. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary, Queen of Scots is the 168th most popular politician (up from 179th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 51st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Politician.

Mary, Queen of Scots was a Scottish queen who was beheaded by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

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Among politicians, Mary, Queen of Scots ranks 168 out of 19,576. Before her are Lorenzo de' Medici, Titus, Diocletian, Hatshepsut, Hermann Göring, and George Marshall. After her are Mark Antony, Vespasian, Skanderbeg, John Major, Amenhotep III, and Margaret Thatcher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1542, Mary, Queen of Scots ranks 2. Before her is Akbar. After her are Tokugawa Ieyasu, John of the Cross, Hattori Hanzō, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Robert Bellarmine, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, Jan Zamoyski, Isabella de' Medici, and Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona. Among people deceased in 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots ranks 1. After her are Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Occhiali, Gotthard Kettler, Bianca Cappello, Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Felix of Cantalice, Ōmura Sumitada, Ōtomo Sōrin, Hai Rui, John Foxe, and Juraj Drašković.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary, Queen of Scots ranks 52 out of 8,785. Before her are Alan Turing (1912), Alexander Fleming (1881), Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947), Thomas Hardy (1840), Bernard Montgomery (1887), and James Cook (1728). After her are J. J. Thomson (1856), James Prescott Joule (1818), Anthony Hopkins (1937), John Major (1943), Mary of Teck (1867), and Margaret Thatcher (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Mary, Queen of Scots ranks 23. Before her are George IV of the United Kingdom (1762), Richard I of England (1157), Queen Victoria (1819), Mary II of England (1662), Edward V of England (1470), and Mary I of England (1516). After her are John Major (1943), Margaret Thatcher (1925), Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800), Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900), James V of Scotland (1512), and William Ewart Gladstone (1809).

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