Marie Pieris

[6] René Pierres was improving his home at this time with a new drawbridge and a chapel at the parish church of Joué-Étiau in Maine-et-Loire.

The infant queen remained in the care of her mother, Mary of Guise, at Linlithgow Palace and then at Stirling Castle.

A proposal from Henry VIII that the infant queen Mary should marry his son Prince Edward, led to a war, now often known as the Rough Wooing.

[19] William Hamilton is said to have organised repairs to Seton Palace which had been damaged by the English army following the sack and burning of Edinburgh in May 1544.

[28] Mary gave "Ladie Seitoun" white and red silk taffeta in November 1561, possibly for a gown.

[33] When Mary was pregnant, in May 1566 she made a will bequeathing her jewels, and if she had died "Madame de Briante" would have a pair of bracelets studded with amethysts.

In August 1570 Mary Pieris was at Blair Castle with the Countess of Atholl and heard her daughter was ill in England.

[41] They were put on trial in Tolbooth at Edinburgh, on the charge that their letters denied the authority of James VI of Scotland and his representatives.

The Bishop of Ross, John Lesley, had written to Regent Lennox that she was Mary's special servant and one of her Dames of Honour and should be freed.

[42] In October, Queen Elizabeth heard she had been had been arrested and would be banished from Scotland, and took action that Regent Lennox should know that she thought it no great cause.

[46] Mary, Queen of Scots wrote that "Madame de Briante" had returned to France in November 1574 to discuss her marital property with her brother-in-law.

[47] Mary recommended her again, "la bonne dame de Seyton", to the Archbishop of Glasgow in a letter of 20 February 1575.