Edinburgh in May 1556 on a charge of heresy, but the charges were not supported by the Regent (Mary of Guise) and the accusations were dropped.
Knox left Scotland that year to return to the English congregation in Geneva. His time at Geneva was possibly the happiest days of his ministry. It was to Geneva in 1556 that he brought his wife, Marjory Bowes, whose mother had been a committed member of his Berwick flock. It also was in Geneva that his two sons, Nathanael and Eleazar, were born. There he wrote
