The Death Mask Of Mary Queen Of Scots
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- One of the most shocking executions of the Tudor period, was when Elizabeth I signed the death warrant of Mary Queen of Scots. The former Scottish monarch and the cousin of the English Queen was a thorn in the side of Elizabeth, after she had been involved in a number of plots. Mary Queen of Scots had been imprisoned in England for almost 2 decades, before she became engrained with the Babington Plot, which was planned to dethrone and assassinate Elizabeth, and put the former Scottish Queen on the English throne. Catholics across the nation would have loved this, however Elizabeth then sanctioned Mary’s death and execution. It was inside the walls of Fotheringhay Castle on the 8th February 1587 that Mary made her way to the executioner’s block. It was a remarkable moment in English History, the Queen ordering the execution of another Queen. But with the executioner’s axe, Mary’s life was no more. But one curiosity which has emerged in the centuries after her death relates to a number of death masks taken of the Queen’s face following her execution. Mary would not be given a public funeral, but she would be given a death mask. This is a haunting image of the deceased former Queen of Scotland, but what is the story behind it?
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The execution “was, in a sense, botched”.
Darling, you have a way with understatement. 😹😹
A chop to the back of the head from a heavy, sharp axe, delivered by a strong man, probably put her lights out immediately and she wasn't alive to feel the subsequent blows.
Well, well done. Thank you.
Good video. I appreciate all the detail you included. I feel so bad for her little dog.
Why? The dog didn't know ANYTHING about what was going on.
I'm sure he was traumatized and sad. Dogs are very smart and in touch with their "humans "
Another old story about Elizabeth was that Mary's beauty and youth enraged her. Elizabeth used lead paste to whiten her skin and it caused horrid sores and premature aging. Mary had naturally pale skin and used rose water and glycerine, still known to keep skin young.
Snow White was rewritten as a coded story for what happened when Mary sent a gift that she had no idea would send Mary into a fury. Mary had Venetian glass mirrors that gave a perfect picture of oneself. Elizabeth had only polished silver mirrors. Mary sent one of her Venetian mirrors in a gilt frame and had a picture of herself put in a matching gilt frame. These she sent to Elizabeth her cousin. Supposedly, Elizabeth took it as an insult. She was said to be heard screaming that she would have Mary's heart pulled from her chest while she pounded her panet on the mirror and broke it.
Jedburgh mask looks like its from a 1940s movie set.
The Jedburgh mask looks like it’s been Hollywoodised
Jedburgh is pronounced similarly to Peterborough. Not Jed- 'berg.'
I wonder what happened to her dog after her death.
I read in one of her books that her ladies , who had been with her for life, took the dog with them and they looked after it. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
Neither of them looked much like the paintings of her
That is NOT her face.
It looks like the death mask of a French Peasant
All muscles go totally slack at death so there would be no record of the trauma of her execution.
Not quite accurate. And without getting graphic, if you've seen the faces of people who have died traumatically, you'd understand that.
@@maxsdad538 I have. I was a nurse.
the axe man had to strike 3-4 times until her head was severed from her body....how can her death mask look so peaceful - I wonder IF that is really her death mask.....it must been a lot of suffering for her. Its said that the first blow of the axe struck the back of her head instead the neck from her body....so that death mask looks very peacefully....can that be true? She experienced a lot of horror in her last minutes......to much for that kind of peacefully death mask I think
It did say her lips moved after so maybe the face settled? Horrible to think about I winced when it mentioned her wig coming off, how undignified a death, don't know how people could have don't this to each other!
Well, if the axe land in the backhead instead of the neck, the person will be unconscious and dead at once. It was also reported that Mary did not move during the struggle to get her head off.
Regardless of the expression she had on her face at the moment she was killed, the muscles would relax afterward, and someone would probably have closed her eyes and mouth, and cleaned the blood off.
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I always thought Elizabeth was jealous of Mary . She was known to not like her counsel members to bring their wives to court because she needed their complete attention
I rather think that Elizabeth’s claim to the throne was tenuous because her parents weren’t truly married, as the kings first wife still lived, making Elizabeth illegitimate. With all the dispensations given for the marriage of Henry and Catherine, it was surely legal and cherry picking your way through the bible to dredge up an excuse to make in null and void is ludicrous. But hey, the kings mistress, Anne, was pregnant and the child might be a boy, so just find something that says the marriage to your brothers widow means you won’t have any children, male ones that is.
But the bible is good at contradicting itself: Deuteronomy 25:5-10 requires a brother to marry his brother's widow if the brother died without (male) issue, in a so-called levirate marriage, so that The deceased’s name “does not die in Israel”.
So that meant Mary of Scotland, Elizabeth’s cousin, was the legitimate queen of England and she was perfectly correct in wanting to assume her rightful place.
In any event, the accession of James VI to the Scottish throne after the murder of his mother, meant he was Elizabeth’s heir and he became James I Of England. It helps that he was Protestant.
@@jandrews6254 I completely agree great point I never looked at it like that because I never really knew too much about Mary’s parents or heard much about how her even had a claim
@@jandrews6254 I don’t know why but in a way I feel like this sort of applies to Anne Boleyn. Henry had an affair with Anne’s sister, Mary Boleyn. He’s not Mary’s widower, but they did sleep together. Anne was the (presumably) second Boleyn girl to sleep with the King. And she had the same issue as Catherine of Aragon, only one female child and no males.
These masks looks very yassified
Neither "death mask" looks anything like Mary's portraits. I've always assumed they are not real.
Royal portraits made before photography were notorious for being exaggerated and altering the subject’s appearance. I also saw another video about her death masks (there are two) where it compared them to portraits- and the ratio of facial features stayed consistent in all of them.
She looks really pretty.
If I was Elizabeth I,I had to make sure I'm doing the right so I don't regret it in the end
Pronounced, Jed buruh, note.
Is this really what she looked like?? Or is it a mask of a mask etc etc 🤔
Also was the mask made After or before her death??
The death mask was usually made after death... hence the term "death mask".
Our American Constitution was created and based upon the premise that there would be NO SANCTIONED STATE RELIGION. The Americans learned the lessons of the unreasonable actions of the Queens whom followed two different versions of christianity
Not just these two Queens but leaders from around the world for centuries! Egyptians ,Muslims, Catholics, Protestants, and biblical peoples centuries ago!!!!...omg widen your mind!!!! Religious differences have caused more deaths than diseases have!
I have a question. If you find the death mask of Mary Queen of Scots disturbing, why post a video with it? That does not make sense to me,
cause it’s still a part of history? what do you expect from a history education channel? many parts of history are disturbing, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be taught to those who are interested
@@leah_025 You are correct. I was asking the question to the authors of these videos because they very often use the words "tragic" or "disturbing" in their video titles which comes across as rather sensational, like tabloid headlines.
Elizabeth I had no problem chopping the heads off children and relatives. Lady Jane was 16 years old and the great granddaughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth's niece.. Mary Queen of Scots was Elizabeth I's first cousin. Both executed women were my 5th cousins and Liz I was my 4th cousin. Starting with Henry I, dysfunction seems to be a family trait. I don't blame the current Henry (Harry) for moving 5,454 miles away.
Elizabeth I didn't order Lady Jane Grey's execution, her sister Mary I did that when she ascended to the throne. Jane had been named as Edward VI's (the brother of Mary I and Elizabeth I) successor in his will, and was placed on the throne but Mary was the rightful heir per their father Henry VIII's will and she soon was proclaimed queen and had Lady Jane imprisoned in the Tower of London. Despite promising to spare her young cousin's life, she soon signed the order for her execution. Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I were 1st cousins once removed since Mary was the daughter of Elizabeth's 1st cousin James V of Scotland. Elizabeth I's father Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scot's grandmother Margaret Tudor were brother and sister.
16 was not a "child".
@@B0KN0WS Thanks, Bo.
@@maxsdad538 I am 82. 16 is an INFANT. We have a tendency to be apologists foe bad behavior a hundred, no less 500 years ago.
Soo she have 4 faked death masks i truly believe, A Queen plotted multiple attempts to kill another Queen ..Hmmm, I'll give My hypothesis....She was never executed, if a Queen with an established Army was taken by her own blood relatives im sure within some her blood relatives infiltrated esp they had much love for her, let alone 19 yrs to strike an Makaveli plan would be easy, She must've lived easy in Prison to have a shoulder Pup, let alone who walks the Plank of death row with a dog beneath her lovely dress? Queen Elizabeth Council was part of the cover up hoping Elizabeth signed the warrant ao no1 would ever see her again and she could live freely somewhere else, the mask was presented to make the death somewhat believable but where is her head? Quewn Elizabeth didnt witness the Death, Correct?...Exactly, all soo called anything remained of her was destroyed because it never happened and there was no proof to show the Queen so they made a fake mask, 4 attempts to create a believable Mask because they all were terrible worship to recreate the Queen Mary because She was long gone way before even the warrant was signed so someone else with similarities to mary had to model for the mask but no1 died. Mayb She was taken to Venus instead like Queen Allura in Abbott and Costel go2 Mars. There is no proof of her death and an empty tomb 7mos is long enough to find someone similar in looks to later decapitate and present as her corpse. They had to make it sound brutal as the Skilled Executioner had felt sympathy and missed his swing instead of a clean cut, surely Queen Elizabeth would ordered the death of such a weak hearted executioner to have her Beloved Cousin Endure such pain, Even Queen Elizabeth was full of Sorrow and if Queen Elizabeth believed the Bull Sheet Story She would have Executed Ev1 involved without any Presentment but it was enough of enough to make the headlines and Run with it.y 'Con'clision is it Never Happened, "All Hail The Queen Mary 👑"!
We'd be better off under the Ottomans!