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On June 27th 1583 James VI escaped from Ruthven Castle to St Andrews Castle.

There is loads of history about the background and actual events themselves but to put it in a nutshell, some of the Lord's thought a catholic relation, of James, Esmé Stuart, was getting too friendly with him and intended to help instigate a "counter-reformation" restoring catholicism as the main religion in Scotland. It mattered not to the protestants that Esmé had turned Presbyterian during this time in Scotland, and suspected it all part of a plot. James showered Esmé with gifts and made him Duke of Lennox, the only Duke in Scotland.

Enter William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, and head of Scotland’s militant Presbyterians who attempted a coup, the King was hunting in Atholl in August 1582, he was lured by Gowrie and imprisoned in his House of Ruthven until, the next morning, he signed a document proclaiming himself to be quite free and that Lennox was to be banished from Scotland.

A lengthy denunciation of Lennox was issued from Stirling Castle on 17th September 1582, citing his religion, association with the murderers of Lord Darnley and Regent Moray and Regent Lennox, and his control over the royal household and international intrigue, Esmé sought refuge at Dumbarton Castle for a short time before fleeing back home to France.

Gowrie led a new government which gave the Presbyterians ruling powers, all the while keeping James their captive. After about ten months as in June that 1583 the young King escaped from his imprisonment. Gowrie was charged with treason and had his head cut off.

This is another of those stories with different versions, those who follow the Stewarts to this day have a different perspective to the Presbyterians who seen catholic plots.

James never had the chance to recall Esmé Stewart from exile, he died within months of returning to France and did not renounce his conversion Presbyterianism, which didn't go well with the French, who were a Catholic nation at this time. The King repeatedly vouched for Lennox's religious sincerity and memorialized him in a poem called "Ane Tragedie of the Phoenix", which compared him to an exotic bird of unique beauty killed by envy.

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On August 22nd 1582 James VI was abducted and taken to the Castle of Ruthven by the Earls of Mar and Gowrie - the so-called “Ruthven Raid”.

If you read about James, it soon becomes clear that after years of manipulation by the men that controlled the kingdom through him (Regent Morton in particular), he desperately wanted friends he could trust. At the age of 13, when he formally started to reign in his own right, he met a cousin, Esme Stuart, who was French, handsome, worldly, debonair, gentile and charismatic - all the things that James was not! 

James was said to be smitten and Esme Stuart immediately began to gather Royal rewards and preferements. He was created Earl of Lennox in 1580, and then Duke of Lennox in 1581. And of course he quickly earned the hatred of those he trampled over during his rise! By 1582, there was widespread opposition to the Royal favourites, Esme Stuart, and also the Earl of Arran. This was made worse by fears that the new Duke of Lennox was a secret Catholic and an agent of the Pope! Against this background, on 22 August 1582, in an event now known as “The Ruthven Raid”, the young king was seized while hunting near Atholl, by a group of Protestant lords led by William Ruthven, the newly created Earl of Gowrie, and brought here to Ruthven Castle. The following day, his abductors tendered a ‘supplication’ to James, to explain their actions, which included the following:

“We have suffered now about the space of two yeeres such false accusations, calumneis, oppressions and persecutions, by the moyen of the Duke of Lennox, and him who is called Erle of Arran, that the like of their insolenceis and enormeteis were never heretofore borne with in Scotland.” At one point during his captivity here in the castle, the young King is said to have burst into tears, to which the Earl of Gowrie responded “Tis better that bairns weep than bearded men!” The King was to remember this treatment and would take his revenge. James remained an unwilling guest of the Earl of Gowrie for some 10 months at Ruthven Castle, during which time he was forced to banish the Duke of Lennox back to France (where he died the following year). The King’s captivity came to an end in June 1583, when he escaped while on a visit to St Andrews. The Ruthven conspirators were in turn banished from the kingdom. The Earl of Gowrie was shortly afterwards pardoned and allowed to return, but after involving himself in further plotting, was executed in May 1584.

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August 5th 1600 what became known as The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI took place.

It is impossible to determine what actually happened that day, historians have been arguing and hypothesising about it for centuries now, and still we are no closer to knowing what truly happened. 

Anyway King James claimed he was out hunting near Perth, when he met Alexander Ruthven, who claimed he was keeping a wealthy foreigner “with a pot of gold” in Gowrie House.

James, known for his love of money,  weren’t all the Stewarts,   the King, with several of his men, went with Alexander to investigate this story. At Gowrie House, they had dinner with Alexander’s brother, the Earl of Gowrie, John Ruthven.  After dinner, without his men knowing where he had gone, King James went upstairs with Alexander, and was held captive by force. His men were told that the king had left without them, but before they departed the Gowrie House, they saw King James from a window above, and he cried “treason!” 

His men attempted to rescue King James, and in the process they killed Alexander and his brother, the Earl. James survived the event, but faced scrutiny, as many people doubted his version of the events. There is little doubt in my own mind that this was some sort of revenge mission for a number of events,  The Ruthven Raid where a young James had been kidnapped and held by the first Earl of Ruthven the brothers father, in 1582, the family were also maybe involved in David Rizzio’s murder and the murder of his Father Lord Darnley or these may also just have been excuses used to cover the fact that James was after the Gowrie land and money, the bodies of the Gowrie brothers were taken to Edinburgh where they were tried before Parliament. The corpses were pronounced guilty of treason then hanged, drawn and quartered. 

Bizarre though this was there may have been reason in it as the conviction for treason would formally render the estates of the deceased forfeit to the Crown, so again money played a part. 

As I said at the top of the post the Gowrie conspiracy has been debated through the centuries with many different reasons and theories explored, we will never know the truth it is just another of the mixed up plots that the Stewarts seemed to embroil themselves in.

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