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1.MarraEstuardo,reina
deEscocia./
QueenMary
StuartofScotland.
2.CastillodeBolton./
BoltonCastle.
3.JacoboCarlos
Estuardo,naciwen
Edimburgoel19de
Kuniode1566ymuriw
enTheobaldshouseel
27demar[ode1625,
duranteunfuerte
ataquededisentería./
JacobStuartwasbornin
Edinburgh19
June1566anddied
inTheobaldshousein
March27,1625 ,
byastrong
attackofdysentery.
4.MartínLutero./
Martin
Luther.
5.PalaciodeLinlithgow./
LinlithgowPalace .
6.+acobo7deEscocia,
padrede lareinaMaría
Estuardo./
JamesV
ofScotland,fatherof
QueenMaryStuart.
U
na de las semblan[as mgs apasionan-
tes en la historia del Reino Unido y que
grandes muKeres de nuestra era refie-
ren como su fuente de inspiraciwn, es
la de Wida de Marra Estuardo.
Sin conocer a su padre, desposada en tres oca-
siones, dos de las cuales enWiudw, y madre de un
swlo hiKo: el primer rey de la (ran Bretava e *rlanda
llegw a ser la muKer Rue unificw al reino de la (ran
Bretava e *rlanda.
HiKa y heredera del rey +acobo 7 de Escocia y de
Marra de (uisa, fue recibida por un mundo conWulso,
el 8 de diciembre de 1542, en el palacio de Linlithgow.
Un par de dncadas antes, habra comen[ado la Refor-
ma 1rotestante encabe[ada por Martrn Lutero, mis-
ma Rue causw un bavo de sangre sin precedentes y
diWidiw Europa conicto al Rue Escocia, desde luego,
no fue ajeno.
El reino Rue heredw Marra, con tan swlo seis dras de
nacida, tenra tambinn una historia complicada. Asr, des-
de peRueva tuWo Rue luchar en dos frentes: uno interno,
entre los diferentes clanes y pueblos Rue formaban Es-
cocia, y el otro eYterno, contra sus Wecinos del sur, llg-
mense romanos, anglosaKones, normandos o losmismos
ingleses. Desde el siglo 9* el reino de Escocia buscaba de
forma reiterada la alian[a con Francia, demanera Rue pu-
dieran conKurar la amena[a Rue representaban los ingle-
ses, aunRue no siempre lo consiguiw. 1rueba de ello, son
los m|ltiples enlaces matrimoniales entre reyes escoce-
ses (su padre uno de ellos) y princesas francesas.
O
ne of the most fascinating portraits
in the history of UK and to whome
women of our time regards as a
source of inspiration, such is the
life of Mary Stuart.
She never met her father, was betrothed three
times, two of them made her a widow and mother
to one son, the first King of Great Britain and Ire-
land; She became the woman who unified the king-
doms of Great Britain and Ireland.
Mary Stuart was born in Linlithgow palace, on De-
cember 8th, 1542, daughter and heiress of King James
V of Scotland and Mary of Guise. Her story is certainly
one of themost exciting there is. Shewas born in a tur-
bulentworld. A couple of decades earlier the Protestant
ReformationhadstartedinEuropeledbyMartinLuther,
dividing the continent and starting an unprecedented
bloodbath. Scotland, of course, wasn’t spared.
The kingdom that Mary inherited with only six
days of age also had a complicated history. From the
beginning, the kingdom had to fight on two fronts:
the first one, between different clans and villages
that formed it; and an external persective against
their southern neighbors - whether they were Ro-
mans, Anglo-Saxons, Normans or English. From the
eleventh century Scotland repeatedly sought an al-
liance with France to avert the threat posed by the
English, but did not always succeed. Proof of this are
themultiplemarriages of the Scottish kings (includ-
ingMary’s father) with French princesses.
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