David Calderwood (1575 – 29 October 1650) was a Scottish minister of religion and historian. Calderwood was banished for his nonconformity. He found a home in the Low Countries, where he wrote his great work, the Altare Damascenum which was an...
David Rizzio ( RIT-see-oh; Italian: Davide Rizzio [ˈdaːvide ˈrittsjo]; c. 1533 – 9 March 1566) or Riccio ( RITCH-ee-oh, Italian: [ˈrittʃo]) was an Italian courtier and the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary's husband, Lord Darnley, is...
There was a significant outbreak of plague in Edinburgh and Leith in April 1585. Sick people were isolated on the town's common grounds. Robert Rollock closed the town's college, the University of Edinburgh, from May 1585 to February 1586.
Mary, Queen of Scots, and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, were married at the Palace of Holyroodhouse on 29 July 1565, when she was 22 years old, and he was 19. The wedding took place in the Chapel Royal. The two were first cousins.
Calderwood is a place-derived surname, of Brythonic and Old English origins in Lanarkshire Scotland.
Dorothea Stewart, Countess of Gowrie (died after 1600) was a Scottish aristocrat. The dates of the birth and death of Dorothea Stewart are unknown.
David Dickson (1583–1663) was a Church of Scotland minister and theologian. He preached in Irvine before becoming a Professor of theology at Glasgow University. He and Alexander Henderson led the protests against the Book of Common Prayer in 1637.
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (8 October 1515 – 7 March 1578), born Lady Margaret Douglas, was the daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret Tudor and her second husband Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and thus the granddaughter...
Robert Bruce (1554 – 27 July 1631) was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland which was called on 6 February 1588 to prepare defences against a possible invasion by the Spanish Armada. King James VI was so sensible of the...
John Howie (14 November 1735 – 5 January 1793) was a Scottish biographer. His best known work was Biographia Scoticana, first published in 1775, which is often called The Scots Worthies. It deals with Christians and particularly Presbyterians...
