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David Rizzio (/ ˈ r ɪ t s i oʊ / RIT-see-oh; Italian: Davide Rizzio [ˈdaːvide ˈrittsjo]; c. 1533 – 9 March 1566) [3] or Riccio (/ ˈ r ɪ tʃ i oʊ / RITCH-ee-oh, Italian:) was an Italian courtier, born in Pancalieri close to Turin, a descendant of an ancient and noble family still living in Piedmont, the Riccio Counts di San Paolo e Solbrito, who rose to become the private secretary ...
David Riccio (born c. 1533, Pancalieri, near Turin, Piedmont—died March 9, 1566, Edinburgh) was the secretary to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; he helped to arrange her marriage to Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley. Riccio was the son of a musician. In 1561 he went to Scotland with the Duke of Savoy’s ambassador. After entering the Queen’s ...
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At the time that Mary employed Rizzio, she was in love (or perhaps 'in lust') with Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, a man John Guy describes as "a narcissist and a natural conspirator", a man who liked his drink and who was promiscuous.2 It is said that Darnley was even intimate with Rizzio3Mary married Darnley on Sunday 29th July 1565 at her private ch...
Immediately after their marriage Darnley had started plotting to change Scotland's religion, with David Rizzio acting as one of his confidantes, and "his actions put in jeopardy the religious compromise that Mary had worked so shrewdly over the past four years to establish"7. That, combined with his behaviour in the bedroom, wrecked the marriage. A...
At 8pm on the night of Saturday 9th March 1566, Lord Darnley and a large group of conspirators (around 80 men) made their way through the Palace of Holyroodhouse to the Queen's supper chamber where she was enjoying a meal with Rizzio and some other friends. Darnley entered first, to reassure his heavily pregnant wife, and then Lord Ruthven, in full...
Based on an original article from The Elizabeth Files blog by Claire Ridgway and an excerpt from On This Day in Tudor Historyalso by Claire Ridgway. 1. Guy, John (2004) My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Harper Perennial, p204 2. Ibid., p211 3. Ibid., p236; Stedall, Robert (2012) The Challenge to the Crown: Volume I: The Struggle ...
On 9th March 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary Queen of Scots ' was assassinated in front of Mary, who was heavily pregnant. Several members of the Douglas family were implicated. Rizzio was born around 1533 near Turin, Italy, and is first recorded as David Riccio di Pancalieri in Piemonte.
On March 9th, 1566, Mary Queen of Scots, six months pregnant with the future James VI, witnessed the murder of her secretary David Riccio at the instigation of her husband Henry Lord Damley and was then left to spend the night alone in the rooms still stained by Riccio’s blood. For a parallel, one turns to Jacobean melodramas, such as Webster ...
A plot was hatched by Darnley’s aides, Morton, Lindsay and the Ruthvens to kill Riccio. In March 1566, in the presence of a pregnant Mary, the murderers burst into Mary’s chambers and stabbed ...
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In March 1566 the murderers burst into Mary’s chambers and stabbed Riccio to death. The pregnant Mary looked on helplessly. In fear of her own life she later escaped with her husband. Darnley ...
