The siege of St Andrews Castle was a pivotal episode in the Scottish Reformation. Cardinal Beaton had ordered the burning of the Protestant reformer George Wishart in 1546; his assassins then held St Andrews Castle for over a year as Protestant pilgrims arrived to join them. The eventual French intervention and the surrender of the castle sent John Knox to the French galleys — an experience that radicalised him. Knox's later return to Scotland as a preacher fundamentally altered its religious history.
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