Re: Sinclair Dates

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 16:09 15/09/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Sorry for got the reference
>
>Margaret
>b. 1282/83
>d. September 1290, in the Orkney Islands
>byname THE MAID OF NORWAY, queen of Scotland from 1286 to 1290, the last of
>the line of Scottish rulers descended from King Malcolm III Canmore (ruled
>1058-93).
>................the Scottish lords proclaimed the infant Margaret as their
>queen. ............ On the voyage from Norway to England, however, Margaret
>fell ill and died. foreign domination and civil war. Ref ENCYCLOPÆDIA
>BRITANNICA Micrppaedia 15 Edition Chicago 1984
>
>Sinclair

1281    A Bond of Amity was established between the Crown of Norway and 
Scotland.
         Princess Margaret of Scotland marries King Eric II of Norway.

1283  They had a child also named Margaret, known as the "Maid of Norway".  In
          the same year the Queen dies leaving her infant daughter.

1284  The Estates of the two countries met at Scone in Scotland where it 
was decided
           that, in the event of Alexander III of Scotland dying without 
issue, the throne of
           of Scotland would go to the infant "Maid of Norway".  During her 
minority the
           country would be governed by a Regent.

         Robert the Bruce was the nearest male relative to Alexander III.

1290   "The Maid of Norway" (then seven years old) was despatched to 
Scotland but
          died off Orkney.

                 "The North Wind sobs where Margaret sleeps
                   And still in tears of blood her memory Scotland steeps"

          It is said that he body was returned to Norway but others 
maintain that her
          body lies in Harold's Tower in Caithness.

1293  King Robert the Bruce clinches his own right to the Scottish throne 
by marrying
          his sister, Isabella, to King Eric.  This was Eric's second 
marriage. See 1281 above.

1299.  They had a daughter, Ingeborg, who was betrothed to Earl John of 
Orkney when
           she was only two years of age.

1311   A renewal of the betrothal took place.

1312   Earl John dies without having 'bedded' the young Ingeborg.

The purpose of the above information is to show how closely allied the 
Norwegians
were with the Scots through their principal families and that the idea of a 
Northern Commonwealth which would have included Scotland was very much part 
of Queen Margrette's  ambition to build up an Atlantic Alliance which would 
provide a block
to the growing power of the (German) Hanseatic League.

Niven Sinclair



>-----Original Message-----
>From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@matrix.net>
>To: sinclair@matrix.net <sinclair@matrix.net>
>Date: 15 September 2000 09:22
>Subject: Sinclair Dates
>
>
> >
> >   [1]Sinclair Dates:  September 15.
> >   In 1638: Louis Dieu-Donné b., Future king Louis XIV of France born.
> >   The epithet means God-Given.
> >   In 1066: Hardraada burns Scarborough, on first arriving in England.
> >   [2]Tomorrow:  September 16.
> >   In 2000: Viking Ships in Massachusetts, [3]Boston
> >   In 1290: Margaret Maid of Norway d., [4]Queen of Scotland dies.
> >   [5]Drowns off Orkney coast on her way to Scotland. .
> >
> >References
> >
> >   1. http://www.mids.org/sinclair/timeline.html
> >   2. http://www.mids.org/sinclair/timeline.html
> >   3. http://www.leif2000.org/Events.htm
> >   4. http://www.angelfire.com/de/BobSanders/TIME1.html
> >   5. http://www.clansinclair.org/hist1.htm
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