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    Lochleven Castle is a ruined castle on an island in Loch Leven, in the Perth and Kinross local authority area of Scotland. Possibly built around 1300...
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  • island Lochleven Castle, where Mary, Queen of Scots met John Knox in April 1563. Since 1546, he and his mother had built the "Newhouse of Lochleven" on the...
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    was the wife of William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton, who as Laird of Lochleven Castle was the custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots during her captivity from...
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    It reaches its climax in the escape of Mary, Queen of Scots from Lochleven Castle leading to her defeat at the Battle of Langside and her final departure...
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    There are seven islands on the loch, the largest being St Serf's Inch. Lochleven Castle, where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned in 1567, lies on one of...
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    was forced to abdicate in favour of James VI. Mary was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle, while her Protestant half-brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray, was...
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    Mary, Queen of Scots (category People of Stirling Castle)
    Following an uprising against the couple, Mary was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle. On 24 July 1567, she was forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old...
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  • Thomas Douglas, younger of Lochleven, and Elizabeth Boyd, his home was Lochleven Castle set on an island in Loch Leven. Some of his estate papers survive,...
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    Leven. Mary would have been imprisoned in Lochleven Castle or at St Andrews Castle and Darnley taken to Castle Campbell to prevent their marriage. Following...
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    gentlewomen. Moray was at Lochleven Castle with his mother and brother, recovering from an illness. Argyll travelled from Castle Campbell, expecting to meet...
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    Wardrobe of Mary, Queen of Scots (category Edinburgh Castle)
    survives of textiles and thread sent to Mary at Lochleven, Carlisle, and Bolton Castle. Projects at Lochleven included large quantities of sequins, called...
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  • around the deposing of Mary Queen of Scots. If so, "Lochleven" would presumably refer to Lochleven Castle where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned in 1567...
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  • Edinburgh. Seton assisted the queen's escape from the island fortress of Lochleven Castle by standing at a window dressed in the queen's clothes while she fled...
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    married Robert Douglas of Lochleven, who was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh. She became the châtelaine of Lochleven Castle. She had two sons with...
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  • travelled between Perth and Edinburgh. They would be imprisoned in Lochleven Castle or Castle Campbell. According to Adam Blackwood the plot failed while the...
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  • Douglas as a contribution to costs of keeping the deposed queen at Lochleven Castle. He died in 1585 and was buried at Duthil Old Parish Church and Churchyard...
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  • partisans at Dumbarton Castle, and after a temporary agreement with Regent Moray he conspired for her deliverance from Lochleven Castle in 1567. After the...
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    continue in use by the current Perth and Kinross Council. Cleish Castle Lochleven Castle "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September...
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    In June 1567, Protestant rebels arrested Mary and imprisoned her in Lochleven Castle; she never saw her son again. She was forced to abdicate on 24 July...
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    imprisonment in Lochleven Castle. The Scottish lords forced her to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son, James VI. James was taken to Stirling Castle to be...
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    them to Linlithgow Palace. Instead, Robert Douglas took Lord James to Lochleven Castle. In May 1553, the imperial ambassador to England, Jean Scheyfve, heard...
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    visited Sir William Douglas at Loch Leven. At Lochleven Castle, Wood spoke to Margret Erskine, Lady Lochleven. She was looking after Agnes Keith's daughter...
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    followed the abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her escape from Lochleven Castle in May 1568. Those who ruled in the name of her infant son James VI...
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  • Loch Leven (redirect from Lochleven)
    a freshwater loch in Perth and Kinross Lochleven Castle, a fortress on the loch William Douglas of Lochleven, later the 6th Earl of Morton Loch Leven...
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    escaped from Lochleven Castle in May 1568, the Earl of Mar was ordered step up security at Stirling around the king and expel from the castle all but his...
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    Jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots (category Edinburgh Castle)
    Darnley. In 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, was deposed and imprisoned in Lochleven Castle. Around the time she was made to abdicate, William Maitland of Lethington...
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  • stepson Lord James of St Andrews to Lochleven Castle instead, defying the Regent. James Stewart was at Stirling Castle with his sister Mary, Queen of Scots...
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    as a male page. However, the queen was soon arrested and taken to Lochleven Castle where she was held in captivity. Bothwell fled to Orkney and Shetland...
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    queen, while she was imprisoned at Lochleven Castle, to her abdication in July 1567. When Mary escaped from Lochleven, he led the vanguard of the army which...
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    four years in Edinburgh Castle, for an alleged plot against Mary, Queen of Scots. Following her escape from Lochleven Castle in 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots...
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