(1) James IV. = Margaret Tudor = (2) Archibald Douglas, 1488-1513 | | Earl of Angus | +---------+ | | Mary of Guise = James V. Matthew Stuart = Margaret Douglas | 1513-1542 Earl of Lennox | | | | +-------------------+ | | Francis II. = Mary = Henry Stuart, King of 1542- | Lord Darnley France 1567 | | James VI. 1567-1625] 16. =The Murder of Rizzio. 1566.=--Mary had taken a coarse-minded fool for her husband, and had to suffer from him all the tyranny which a heartless man has it in his power to inflict on a woman. Her heart craved for affection, and Darnley, who plunged without scruple into the most degrading vice, believed, or affected to believe, that his wife had sacrificed her honour to David Rizzio, a cultivated Italian who acted as her secretary, and carried on her correspondence with the Continental powers. A league for the murder of Rizzio--such things were common in Scotland--was formed between Darnley and the Protestant lords. On March 9, =1566=, they burst into Mary's supper-room at Holyrood. Rizzio clung to his patroness's robe, but was dragged off and slain. Murray with his fellow-conspirators came back to Scotland. Mary, however, with loving looks and words, won over the husband whom she despised, broke up the confederacy, and drove most of the confederates out of the country.