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RIZZIO , or Rtccro, See also:

DAVID (c. 1533–1566), secretary of See also:

Mary (q.v.), See also:

queen of Scots, was a native of See also:

TURIN

Turin, and came to See also:

Scotland in 1561 in the See also:

TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train of the Piedmontese See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador. The queen wanted a See also:

bass See also:

SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer, and he entered her service as a musician, becoming also her See also:

VALET (Fr. valet; O. Fr. vaslet)

valet de chambre, and in 1564 private See also:

FOREIGN

foreign secretary. After her See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage to See also:

DARNLEY, HENRY STEWART

Darnley in 1565 his See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence with Mary became See also:

PARAMOUNT (Anglo-Fr. paramont, up above, par el mont, up or on top of the mountain)

paramount, and he gave himself See also:

GREAT

great airs and affected considerable See also:

state, practically superseding See also:

Maitland of Lethington as secretary of state. His See also:

ELEVATION

elevation aroused the active hostility of Darnley and the other nobles, and he was suspected of being the queen's See also:

LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868)

lover. On the evening of the gth of See also:

March 1566, the earls of See also:

Morton and See also:

LINDSAY

Lindsay, with armed followers, entered Mary's supper chamber at Holyrood, seized Rizzio, hacked him to See also:

DEATH

death with daggers, and threw his See also:

BODY

body into the courtyard. See See also:

RUTHVEN

Ruthven's Narrative of Riccio's See also:

MURDER

Murder (1836) ; and the articles on MARY, QUEEN OF ScoTS, and allied See also:

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