1567 in Scotland

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See also:	List of years in Scotland; Timeline of Scottish history; 1567 in: England • Elsewhere

Events from 1567 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

Monarch – Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI
Regent: James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray

Events

10 February – Murder of Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, at the Kirk o' Field in Edinburgh by gunpowder explosion.^[1]
12 April – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, is acquitted on charges of murder in the killing of Lord Darnley. Upon acquittal he makes plans to become Mary's new husband.
20 April – Ainslie Tavern Bond signed in support of the Earl of Bothwell.^[2]
24 April – Bothwell takes Mary prisoner at his castle at Dunbar after preventing her from traveling from her palace to Edinburgh, then rapes her.
15 May – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Earl of Bothwell, under duress.^[3]
15 June – Battle of Carberry Hill: Mary is defeated by Scottish nobles and imprisoned in Lochleven Castle.^[4]
24 July – Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots (at Lochleven Castle), in favour of her 1-year-old son James VI.^[5]
29 July – Coronation of James VI at Stirling, Church of the Holy Rude.^[6]
12 December – The Scottish Parliament votes to approve the Accession and Coronation Act 1567 (Act Anent the demission of the Crown in favour of our Sovereign Lord, and his Majesty's Coronation), confirming the abdication of Mary Queen of Scots in favor of her son James VI and his coronation as the legal ruler of Scotland.^[7] Mary's half brother, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, is appointed as the regent to rule on behalf of the King (as Moray is absent from Scotland at this time, the Parliament appoints a committee of seven deputy regents to rule on on his behalf).

Births

William Stewart of Grandtully

Deaths

10 February - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
23 June - John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland
May - Robert Beaton of Creich

References

^ David Loades, Elizabeth I (London: National Archives, 2003), p. 69.
^ Julian Goodare, "The Ainslie Bond", Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain, 1300-1625: Essays in Honour of Jenny Wormald (Edinburgh, 2015), pp. 15, 301–319.
^ William Simpson (2001). The Reign of Elizabeth. Heinemann. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-435-32735-4.
^ Michael Questier, Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 (Oxford, 2019), p. 62.
^ Steven J. Reid, The Early Life of James VI, A Long Apprenticeship (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2023), p. 52.
^ Lucinda H. S. Dean, "Crowning the Child", Sean McGlynn & Elena Woodacre, The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Newcastle, 2014), pp. 254–280.
^ The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 2007, ed. by K.M. Brown, et al. (St Andrews University, 2007)

[1] David Loades, Elizabeth I (London: National Archives, 2003), p. 69.

[2] Julian Goodare, "The Ainslie Bond", Kings, Lords and Men in Scotland and Britain, 1300-1625: Essays in Honour of Jenny Wormald (Edinburgh, 2015), pp. 15, 301–319.

[3] William Simpson (2001). The Reign of Elizabeth. Heinemann. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-435-32735-4.

[4] Michael Questier, Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 (Oxford, 2019), p. 62.

[5] Steven J. Reid, The Early Life of James VI, A Long Apprenticeship (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2023), p. 52.

[6] Lucinda H. S. Dean, "Crowning the Child", Sean McGlynn & Elena Woodacre, The Image and Perception of Monarchy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Newcastle, 2014), pp. 254–280.

[7] The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 2007, ed. by K.M. Brown, et al. (St Andrews University, 2007)