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The Kingdom of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Rìoghachd na h-Alba; Scots: Kinrick o Scotland, Norn: Kongungdum Skotland) was a sovereign state in northwest Europe traditionally said to have been founded in 843.
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Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a...
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Scotland's ultimate victory confirmed Scotland as a fully...
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List of Scottish monarchs. This article is about Scottish...
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Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles.
Scotland's ultimate victory confirmed Scotland as a fully independent and sovereign kingdom. When King David II died in 1371 without issue, his nephew Robert II established the House of Stuart, which would rule Scotland uncontested for the next three centuries.
Escocia (en inglés y escocés: Scotland; en gaélico escocés: Alba) es el más septentrional de los cuatro países que forman el Reino Unido. Junto con Inglaterra y Gales, forma parte de la isla de Gran Bretaña, abarcando un tercio de su superficie total; además consta de más de 790 islas, unas 40 habitadas.
Hace 3 días · Scotland is the most northerly of the four parts of the United Kingdom, occupying about one-third of the island of Great Britain. It has a long and complicated history with England, with which it was merged in 1707 to form the United Kingdom. Its capital is Edinburgh.
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William I – James VIJames VI – James VIIWilliam II and Mary IIHouse of Alpin
The reign of Kenneth MacAlpin begins what is often called the House of Alpin, an entirely modern concept. The descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin were divided into two branches; the crown would alternate between the two, the death of a king from one branch often hastened by war or assassination by a pretenderfrom the other. Malcolm II was the last king of the House of Alpin; in his reign, he successfully crushed all opposition to him and, having no sons, was able to pass the crown to his daughter...
House of Dunkeld
Duncan succeeded to the throne as the maternal grandson of Malcolm II. The House of Dunkeld was therefore closely related to the House of Alpin. Duncan was killed in battle by Macbeth, another maternal grandson of Malcolm II.
House of Moray
Macbeth came to power in 1040 after killing Duncan I in battle and had a long and relatively successful reign. Macbeth was a cousin of Duncan and was a maternal grandson of Malcolm II. In a series of battles between 1057 and 1058, Duncan's son Malcolm III defeated and killed Macbeth and Macbeth's stepson and heir Lulach and became the king, thereby passing the throne back to the House of Dunkeld.
The Acts of Union were twin Parliamentary Acts passed during 1706 and 1707 by the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland, putting into effect the terms of the Treaty of Union, agreed on 22 July 1706, following prolonged negotiation between Queen Anne's Commissioners representing both parliaments. The Acts joined the Kingdom of England...
James VII continued to claim the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. When he died in 1701, his son James inherited his father's claims and called himself James VIII of Scotland and III of England and Ireland. He would continue to do so all his life, even after the Kingdoms of England and Scotland were ended by their merging as the Kingdom of...
The Scottish coronation oath sworn by James VI, Charles I, and Charles II and approved by the Parliament of Scotlandin 1567: The coronation oath sworn by William II, Mary II and Anne was approved by the Parliament of Scotland on 18 April 1689.The oath was as follows:
Broun, Dauvit (2007), Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain. From the Picts to Alexander III., Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2360-0Hudson, Benjamin T., Kings of Celtic Scotland(Westport, 1994).The Kingdom of Scotland was a historic country and state. It started in the Early Middle Ages and was in existence until the early modern period. After 1603, it had the same monarch as the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Ireland.
