Medal and relic of Mary queen of Scots

Fraser, W. Hamish

doi:10.1093/nq/s1-viii.204.293c

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“…Antonia Fraser also reaches the conclusion that the Queen's conception is more likely to have been before marriage than after it. 13 Partly because of Nau's choice of the words "deux enfants" some have inevitably suggested that Mary was much further on in pregnancy than has been indicated here. This is a very serious accusation since it would mean that she and Bothwell were cohabiting about the time of Darnley's death on 10 February, 26 weeks before the expulsion of twins, or even before this date.…”

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Royal twins.

Dewhurst¹

1983

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Royal twins.

Dewhurst¹

1983

BMJ

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“…Consanguinity is defined as unions contracted between persons biologically related as second cousins or closer. It is noteworthy that Mary Queen of Scots had to seek papal permission to marry her cousin Lord Henry Darnley (Fraser, 1969: 257) and this degree of consanguinity may have contributed to the medical problems of their son the future James VI/I (Peters, Garrard, Ganesan and Stephenson, 2012). Surprisingly, higher fertility rates are reported for consanguineous marriages (Bittles, 1995).…”

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Mental health issues of Maria I of Portugal and her sisters: the contributions of the Willis family to the development of psychiatry

Willis

2013

Hist Psychiatry

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Contemporary accounts credit Dr Francis Willis (1718-1807) with facilitating the recovery of King George III from his major episode of acute mania in 1788-9. Subsequently Willis was summoned to Lisbon to advise on the mental health problems of Queen Maria I. This article reports the nature of the illnesses of Maria and her two similarly affected sisters, and uses the program OPCRIT to propose diagnoses of major depressive disorders. The high prevalence of consanguinity and insanity among the Portuguese monarchy and their antecedents probably contributed to their mental health problems. The successive contributions of the Willis family from Thomas Willis (1621-75) to his grand-nephew, Francis Willis (1792-1859), are reviewed; the popular image is somewhat inaccurate and does not highlight their part in the development of psychiatry.

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“…Once the uprising was in hand, he made independent plans and offered Mary an opportunity to escape, which she turned down on the advice of Norfolk. 38 His presence with the Earls at that point in time could well have made a difference to the final outcome, involving the Cumberland tenantry in earlier activity in the main arena of combat.…”

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The Rising of the Northern Earls

Parkinson¹

2005

Recusant History

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In considering the period from 1559–1603, and the attitudes within the recusant community to the acceptance or rejection of the Elizabethan Settlement, the first major event giving extensive evidence of political attitudes in the northern region is the Rising of the Northern Earls, a crisis which, as elsewhere in Elizabethan England marked the watershed for the fortunes of Catholicism during the reign. An analysis, conducted at some length, of its causes, events and consequences is, indeed, indispensable to understanding Catholic survival in Elizabethan northern England.

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Medal and relic of Mary queen of Scots

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Mental health issues of Maria I of Portugal and her sisters: the contributions of the Willis family to the development of psychiatry

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