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# Mary Queen of Scots & Henry VIII's "Rough Wooing"
- URL: https://www.historywithmadeleine.com/mary-queen-of-scots-henry-viiis-rough-wooing-sources/
- Published: 2026-07-11T23:57:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T16:55:59.000Z
- Author: Madeleine Mermall
- Tags: Research, Mary Queen of Scots, King Henry VIII, Scottish History, The Rough Wooing, Image Sources

When Henry VIII couldn't use the Treaty of Greenwich to take the crown of Scotland through a marriage between the infant Mary and his son Edward, he decided to burn the country to the ground.

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### Sources:

Fraser, Antonia. *Mary Queen of Scots.* London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969.

Merriman, Marcus. *The Rough Wooings: Mary Queen of Scots, 1542–1551.* East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000.

University of St Andrews. "The 'Rough Wooing' Is Offensive and Wrong, Argues Leading Historian." News, University of St Andrews, March 2026\. [https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/the-rough-wooing-is-offensive-and-wrong-argues-leading-historian/](https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/the-rough-wooing-is-offensive-and-wrong-argues-leading-historian/?ref=historywithmadeleine.com). Reports Dr. Amy Blakeway's argument that "Rough Wooing" is an anachronistic, 18th-century euphemism that legitimizes the sexual violence of the period and should be retired in favor of "the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the 1540s."

Warnicke, Retha M. Review of *The Rough Wooings: Mary Queen of Scots, 1542–1551*, by Marcus Merriman. *Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies* 34, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 299–300.

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### Image Sources:

**By order of appearance** 

![Jacob-Ferdinand Voet, Portrait of Anna Caffarelli Minuttiba, late 17th century, oil on canvas, San Francisco, de Young Museum of Fine Art](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Holbein%2C_Hans_%28II%29_-_Henry_VIII_-_Galleria_Nazionale_d%27Arte_Antica%2C_Rome.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=original) 

Hans Holbein the Younger (workshop), *Portrait of Henry VIII*, 1540, oil on panel. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome.

![Corneille de Lyon, Portrait of James V of Scotland, c. 1536. Best candidate: National Trust Collections](https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w1200h1200/collection/NTIV/POLY/NTIV_POLY_29889-001.jpg) 

Corneille de Lyon, *Portrait of James V of Scotland*, c. 1536\. National Trust Collections

![William Scrots, Portrait of Edward VI (1537–1553), 1546, oil on canvas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/8f/2e8fb9b5-3533-493f-986c-1ae03cc77bfc/content/images/2026/08/William_Scrots_-_Edward_VI_-Royal_Collection-.jpg) 

William Scrots, *Edward VI (1537–1553)*, c. 1546\. Royal Collection Trust

![William Scrots, Portrait of Edward VI (1537–1553), 1546, oil on canvas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/8f/2e8fb9b5-3533-493f-986c-1ae03cc77bfc/content/images/2026/09/John-Everett-Millais--The-Ransom--1860-62--Getty-Museum.JPG) 

John Everett Millais, *The Ransom*, 1860-62, Getty Museum

![William Scrots, Portrait of Edward VI (1537–1553), 1546, oil on canvas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/8f/2e8fb9b5-3533-493f-986c-1ae03cc77bfc/content/images/2026/09/IMG_1318.JPG) 

R. S. Marriotts, *Lord Grey of Wilton’s Charge at Pinkie*, 1873, wood engraving. From James Grant, British Battles on Land and Sea, vol. 1 (London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1873), 57\. Digital image courtesy of the British Library / Wikimedia Commons.

![Giovanni Andrea Darif, The Abduction of the Venetian Wives, 1829, oil on canvas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/8f/2e8fb9b5-3533-493f-986c-1ae03cc77bfc/content/images/2026/09/IMG_1336.JPG) 

Giovanni Andrea Darif, *The Abduction of the Venetian Wives*, 1829, oil on canvas

![Giovanni Andrea Darif, The Abduction of the Venetian Wives, 1829, oil on canvas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/8f/2e8fb9b5-3533-493f-986c-1ae03cc77bfc/content/images/2026/09/BnF-_NAL_83-_folio_154_v_-_Francis_II_and_Mary-_Queen_of_Scots.jpg) 

*Francis II, King of France, and his wife, Mary Stuart, Queen of France and Scotland*, 1573\. Miniature illumination on parchment from the Book of Hours of Catherine de' Medici. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Nouvelle acquisition latine (NAL) 82, folio 154v.