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See also:MAITLAND (MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON), See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (c.
1528-1573), Scottish statesman, eldest son of the preceding, was educated at St See also:Andrews. At an See also:early See also:age he entered public See also:life and began in various ways to serve the See also:regent, See also:Mary of See also:Lorraine, becoming her secretary of See also:state in 1558. In 1559, however, he deserted her and threw in his See also:lot with the lords of the See also:congregation, to whom his knowledge of See also:foreign, and especially of See also:English, politics and his See also:general ability were See also:assets of the highest value. The lords sent him to See also:England to ask for assistance from See also:Elizabeth, and his See also:constant aim throughout his See also:political career was to bring about a See also:union between the two crowns. He appears to have feared the return of Mary See also:Queen of Scots to See also:Scotland, but after her arrival in 1561 he was appointed secretary of state, and for about six years he directed the policy of Scotland and enjoyed the confidence of the queen. His See also:principal antagonist was See also:John See also:Knox; there were several tussles between them, the most famous, perhaps, being the one in the general See also:assembly of 1564, and on the whole Maitland held his own against the, preachers. He was doubtless concerned in the See also:conspiracy against See also:David See also:Rizzio, and after the favourite's See also:murder he was, obliged to leave the See also:court and was himself in danger of assassination. In 1567, however, he was again at Mary's See also:side. He was a consenting party to the murder of See also:Darnley, although he had favoured his See also:marriage with Mary, but the enmity between See also:Bothwell and himself was one of the reasons which drove him into the arms of the queen's enemies, among whom he figured at Langside. He was one of the Scots who met Elizabeth's representatives at See also:York in 1568; here he showed a See also:desire to exculpate Mary and to marry her to the See also:duke of See also:Norfolk, a course of See also:action probably dictated by a desire to avoid all revelations about the Darnley murder. But this did not prevent him from being arrested in See also:September 1569 on See also:account of his See also:share in the See also:crime. He was, however, delivered from his captors by a ruse on the See also:part of his friend, See also:Sir William See also:Kirkcaldy of See also:Grange, and was brought into See also:Edinburgh See also:Castle, while his trial was put off because the See also:city was thronged with his adherents. Maitland now became the See also:leader of the remnant which stood by the cause of the imprisoned queen. Already a See also:physical See also:wreck, he was See also:borne into Edinburgh Castle in See also:April 1571 and with Kirkcaldy he held this fortress against the regent See also:Morton and his English auxiliaries. The castle surrendered in May 1573 and on the 7th or the 9th of See also:June following Maitland died at See also:Leith, there being very little See also:evidence for the theory that he poisoned himself. " Secretary Maitland " was a See also:man of See also:great learning with a ready wit and a See also:caustic See also:tongue. He was reputed to be the most versatile and accomplished statesman of his age, and almost alone among his Scottish contemporaries he placed his See also:country above the claims of either the See also:Roman See also:Catholic or the See also:Protestant religions. Among the testimonies to his great abilities are those 'of Queen Elizabeth, of William See also:Cecil and of Knox. By his second wife, Mary See also:Fleming, one of Queen Mary's ladies; whom he married
in 1567, he had a son and daughter. His son See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James died without issue about 1620
See John See also:Skelton, Maitland of Lethinglon (1894); A. See also:Lang, See also:History of Scotland, vol. ii. (1902).
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