marieofguise:Family Motto: Marie de Guise & Mary, Queen of ScotsMary, Queen of Scots’
marieofguise:Family Motto: Marie de Guise & Mary, Queen of ScotsMary, Queen of Scots’ motto is likely inspired by King François I of France’s choice of a salamander (which had legendary attributes akin to the phoenix), but a more obvious connection may be that she borrowed this symbolism from her mother, Marie de Guise.“Two symbols are attributed to Marie de Guise. One, a crown set above a rock beaten by winds and waves, bears the motto Adhuc stat – And still it stands. The other, according to Margaret Swain, is a phoenix, the bird that rises anew out of the ashes from the flames that destroyed it. It has the motto that her daughter [Mary, Queen of Scots] chose to embroider on her cloth of state: En ma fin gît ma commencement – In my end is my beginning.” — Marie Macpherson, “The Other Mary: Mary of Guise”( Fancast: Joanne Whalley as Marie de Guise & Saoirse Ronan as Mary, Queen of Scots ) -- source link