French servant of Mary, Queen of Scots and diplomat
Albert Fontenay or Fontaine was a French servant of Mary, Queen of Scots and acted as her diplomat in Scotland in 1584. Fontenay wrote a frequently cited description of the young James VI of Scotland.[1] Some of his correspondence with Mary, Queen of Scots, was decipherered and published by Sheila R. Richards in 1974.[2]
- ^ Pauline Croft, King James (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), p. 19: David Bergeron, Royal Family, Royal Lovers: King James of England and Scotland (University of Missouri, 1991), pp. 36-7: George Akrigg, Letters of King James VI & I (University of California, 1984), pp. 7-8.
- ^ Sheila R. Richards, Secret Writing in the Public Records (HMSO, 1974), pp. 21-62: David Kahn, Cryptologia, 4:1 (1980), p. 22 doi:10.1080/0161-118091854771