May 13th, 1568
On May 02, 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots escaped from Loch Leven and once again managed to raise a small army. After her armys defeat at the Battle of Langside on May 13, she fled to England three days later, where she was imprisoned by Elizabeths officers at Carlisle on May 19. During her imprisonment, she famously had the phrase En ma Fin gît mon Commencement (In my end is my beginning) embroidered on her cloth of estate.
The Battle of Langside was a battle fought on May 13, 1568 between the forces of Mary Queen of Scots and a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother (who won the battle).
Langside, south of the River Clyde, is now a Glasgow district. The area of the battle has since been built over, and is now fairly near Hampden Park, the Scottish international football stadium. Queens Park, the name of a park near the site of the battle, and from it the name of a football team, is named after Mary. Morays army assembled on a hill which now stands with a flagpole in the middle of Queens Park, and the Queens army assembled on a smaller hill, Clincart Hill, very near the present site of Mount Florida railway station and now occupied by Langside College of Further Education.
