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Rizzio, David

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Rizzio, David (c. 1533-1566)

Italian adventurer and musician. He arrived at the court of Mary Queen of Scots in 1561 in the train of the ambassador of the Duke of Savoy. Mary appointed him her French secretary in 1564, and he soon acquired great influence and to some degree directed her policy. This angered her husband Darnley, and, on suspicion of being the Queen's lover, he was seized in her presence and murdered by Darnley and his friends.



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