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Hi Darice
Your email interested me as family history has always said that my great grandmother (Bellevette Freeland b. Dearborn Michigan circa 1860) was descended from a Scottish family that had forfeited a dukedom near Edinburgh. Your story may have something to do with the following history written by Ian Gimble...
"Patrick, 3rd Lord Ruthven, was an unedifying ringleader of the self-styled Lords of the Congregation of Jesus Christ who deposed the Queen Regent Mary of Lorraine in 1559, and hounded her to her death. As he had treated the mother, so he treated the daugher. In 1566 he was the leader of those who burst into Mary, Queen of Scots' supper room in Holyrood Palace and murdered her servant Rizzio before her eyes. He was dressed in armour and was said to have man-handled the Queen, and to have been the assassin whoplunged Darnley's own dagger into Rizzio in whose corpse it was later found. When Mary succeeded in detaching the fickle Darnley from the conspirators, Ruthven fled to Endland, and he died in the same year.
His son was a chip off the old block. Created Eaqrl of Gowrie while James VI was still a youth, he headed the conspirators who seized the King in Gowrie's house in 1581, and took over the government in his name. But this time the Ruthvens had met a sovereign who was a match for them. First he escaped from their clutches and beheaded the Earl. Lastly he accused the 3rd Earl and his brother Alexander of an attempt to murder him when he rode to visit them from Falkland in 1600. Both men were killed during the alleged rescue of the King, and the name, arms and peerages of Ruthven extinguished. The secret of the Gowrie consipiracy has never been solved: James VI knew how to grame people and the Ruthvens had a record as assassins. After over three centruies of amendment the earldom of Gowrie has been restored to the Ruthvens."
The school, I believe is Strathallan School (look it up on Google) near Perth in Forgandenny.
Hope this helps and if you have any information on Bellevette, I would truly appreciate it.
Thanks
Marni
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