Mary Seton was a Scottish courtier and later a nun.
12 Facts About Mary Seton
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Mary Seton was one of the four attendants of Mary, Queen of Scots, known as the Four Marys.
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Mary Seton was a sister at the Convent of Saint Pierre les Dames in Reims at the time of her death.
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Mary Seton was the daughter of George Seton, 6th Lord Seton, and his second wife Marie Pieris or Pierres, a daughter of Rene Pierres, of Plessis Baudouin, and Antoinette d'Hommes.
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Mary Seton was the only one of the four not to marry, and continued in service with Mary, in Scotland and during her captivity in England.
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Mary Seton assisted the queen's escape from the island fortress of Lochleven Castle by standing at a window dressed in the queen's clothes while she fled to the mainland in a small boat.
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Mary had told Knollys that Mary Seton was the finest 'busker' of a woman's head and hair in any country.
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At first Mary Seton was given a room to herself with two beds, one for her maid or 'gentlewoman' Janet Spittell.
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The messenger carrying the letters, John Moon, was captured, and Mary Seton Pieris was imprisoned in Edinburgh, for writing to the exiled queen.
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Mary Seton said that she had not seen the Queen as ill before, her side gave her evil pains especially in the thigh and leg.
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Maitland visited the convent and found Mary Seton to be living in poverty and suffering from failing health.
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Mary Seton complained to her family, to whom he was remotely related, and to Queen Mary's son James VI of Scotland, but there is no evidence of a response.