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Mary in captivity, c. 1578 Mary, Queen of Scots, a Roman Catholic, was regarded by Roman Catholics as the legitimate heir to the throne of England. In 1568, she escaped imprisonment by Scottish rebels and sought the aid of her first cousin once removed, Queen Elizabeth I, a year after her forced abdication from the throne of Scotland.
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart [2] or Mary I of Scotland, [3] was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland , Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne.
Over 50 encrypted letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots, have been deciphered, revealing the ill-fated monarch’s meditations on a wide variety of subjects.
The trio solved the cipher system used by Mary, Queen of Scots during her imprisonment to encrypt the messages. Most of the letters are addressed to Michel de Castelnau de Mauvissiere, the French ...
The appearance of Phelippes in 1586 was described by Mary, Queen of Scots, as "a man of low stature, slender in every way, dark yellow-haired on the head and clear yellow bearded", with a pock-marked face and short-sighted. [2] Later in life his eyesight weakened and he was helped in his work by his wife, Mary. [3]
The letters date from 1578 to 1584, a few years before Mary’s beheading 436 years ago.
When charges were prepared against Mary, Queen of Scots, for her trial at Fotheringhay in 1586, evidence included her "most despitefull letter" deciphered by "Mr Sommer". [ 54 ] A collection of cipher keys in the National Archives , attributed to John Somers by the archivist Robert Lemon (1800–1867), includes a key for a code used by the ...
1553 – Bellaso invents Vigenère cipher; 1585 – Vigenère's book on ciphers; 1586 – Cryptanalysis used by spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham to implicate Mary, Queen of Scots, in the Babington Plot to murder Elizabeth I of England. Queen Mary was eventually executed. 1641 – Wilkins' Mercury (English book on cryptology)