Scottish Reformation

Sir Ralph Sadler PC, Knight banneret (1507 – 30 March 1587; also spelled Sadleir, Sadlier) was an English statesman, who served Henry VIII as Privy Councillor, Secretary of State and ambassador to Scotland.

Patrick Hepburn (1487 – 1573) was a 16th-century Scottish prelate.

Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven (c. 1520 – June 13, 1566), played an important part in the political intrigues of the 16th century.

Sir William Wynter (c.1521 – 20 February 1589) was an admiral under Queen Elizabeth I of England and served the crown during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).

James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570) a member of the House of Stewart as the illegitimate son of King James V, was Regent of Scotland for his half-nephew, the infant King James VI of Scotland, from 1567 until his assassination in 1570.

The Treaty of Edinburgh (also known as the Treaty of Leith) was a treaty drawn up on 5 July 1560 between the Commissioners of Queen Elizabeth I of England with the assent of the Scottish Lords of the Congregation, and the French representatives of King Francis II of France (husband of Mary Queen of Scots) to formally conclude the Siege of Leith and replace the Auld Alliance with France with a new Anglo-Scottish accord, while maintaining the peace between England and France agreed by the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis.

Gilles de Noailles, abbé de l'Isle (1524–1600) was French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1575 to 1579.

Henry Balnaves (1512? – February 1570) was a Scottish politician, Lord Justice Clerk, and religious reformer.

Christopher Goodman BD (1520–1603) was an English reforming clergyman and writer.

Margaret Knox née Stewart (1547- after 1612), was a Scottish noblewoman and the second wife of Scottish reformer John Knox, whom she married when she was 17 years old and he 54.

Nicolas de Pellevé (18 October, 1518 – 24 March, 1594) was a French archbishop and Cardinal.