This article is about the civil war in Scotland (1568–1573). For the civil war in Ancient Rome called the Marian civil war, see Gaius Marius.
Marian Civil War
Part of the European wars of religion
Woodcut of the Siege of Edinburgh Castle held for Mary in 1573, from Holinshed's Chronicles (1577)
Date
May 1568 – 28 May 1573
Location
Kingdom of Scotland
Result
Victory for supporters of King James VI
Belligerents
King's Men supported by: England
Queen's Men
Commanders and leaders
Regent Moray Regent Lennox Regent Mar Regent Morton William Drury
Duke of Châtellerault Earl of Huntly Lord Fleming Kirkcaldy of Grange Gordon of Auchindoun
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The Marian civil war in Scotland (1568–1573) was a period of conflict which followed the abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her escape from Lochleven Castle in May 1568. Those who ruled in the name of her infant son James VI fought against the supporters of the Queen, who was exiled in England. Edinburgh Castle, which was garrisoned in her name, became the focus of the conflict and surrendered only after an English intervention in May 1573. The conflict in 1570 was called an "intestine war in the bowels of this commonwealth",[1] and the period was called soon after an "intestine war driven by questions against authority."[2]
^Register Privy Council of Scotland, Addenda, vol. 14, p. 50
^Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 361 no. 437, an English comment of 1579 referring 1568–1573: Gordon Donaldson, Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1982), pp. vi, 274 no. 1674, Latin phrase "tempore ultimi intestini belli nostro in regno concitani per questionem tunc contra nostram authoritatem commotam", referring to May 1571.
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