Chaseabout Raid

Chaseabout Raid
Part of French Wars of Religion

The 1st Earl of Moray.
Date1565
Location
Lowlands of Scotland
Result Government victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Scotland Scottish Government Protestant rebels
Commanders and leaders
Mary, Queen of Scots Earl of Moray
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown

The Chaseabout Raid was a rebellion by James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, against his half sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, on 26 August 1565, over her marriage to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. The rebels also claimed to be acting over other causes including bad governance, and religion in the name of the Scottish Reformation.[1] As the government and rebel forces moved back and forth across Scotland without fighting, the conflict became known as the "chase about raid." Queen Mary's forces were superior and the rebel lords fled to England where Queen Elizabeth censured the leader.[2]

  1. ^ Michael Questier, Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 (Oxford, 2019), p. 54.
  2. ^ Jane E. A. Dawson, 'Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley, and Anglo-Scottish Relations in 1565', International History Review, 8:1 (February 1986), pp. 12-13.