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Encyclopedia Britannica



RIZZIO

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 388 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RIZZIO , or Rtccro,
DAVID
  (c. 15331566), secretary of Mary (q.v.), queen of Scots, was a native of Turin, and came to
Scotland
  in 1561 in the
train
  of the Piedmontese
ambassador
 . The queen wanted a
bass
 
singer
 , and he entered her service as a musician, becoming also her valet de chambre, and in 1564 private foreign secretary. After her
marriage
  to Darnley in 1565 his influence with Mary became paramount, and he gave himself
great
  airs and affected considerable state, practically superseding Maitland of Lethington as secretary of state. His
elevation
  aroused the active hostility of Darnley and the other nobles, and he was suspected of being the queen's lover. On the evening of the gth of March 1566, the earls of Morton and Lindsay, with armed followers, entered Mary's supper chamber at Holyrood, seized Rizzio, hacked him to death with daggers, and threw his
body
  into the courtyard.
See Ruthven's Narrative of Riccio's Murder (1836) ; and the articles on MARY, QUEEN OF ScoTS, and allied biographies.


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