Mar, John Erskine, 1st Earl of
- Mar, John Erskine, 1st Earl of
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▪ Scottish lord [died 1572]
died Oct. 29, 1572, Stirling, Stirling, Scot.
Scottish lord who played a major role in deposing
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (reigned 1542–67), and gaining the crown for her infant son James VI (
later James I of England); Mar was regent for James in 1571–72.
Erskine's father, John, 5th Lord Erskine (d. 1555), was guardian for King James V (reigned 1513–42) during his minority and for Mary Stuart, the king's daughter and successor. A moderate Protestant, Erskine worked for a peaceful settlement during the armed struggle (1559–60) between Scotland's Protestant nobles and the regent, Mary of Lorraine, Mary Stuart's Roman Catholic mother (d. 1560). During the struggle he controlled the crucial Edinburgh Castle. Hence Mary Stuart appointed him to the Privy Council when she began her personal rule in Scotland in 1561.
In 1565 Erskine supported her ill-fated marriage to the treacherous Henry, Lord Darnley (d. 1567). Mary granted him the earldom of Mar, thus substantiating the claims of his ancestors; and in 1566 she appointed him guardian of her newborn son, Prince James. Thereafter, he devoted himself to James's interests in the conflict between the supporters of James and Mary. Mar prevented James from falling into the hands of Mary's third husband, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, and he was a leader of the nobles who drove Bothwell from England (June 1567), deposed Mary (July 24), and made James king. Chosen regent of Scotland in 1571, he was succeeded upon his death by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton.
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