tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11135493.post-26417343356430025942008-03-20T18:33:00.000Z2008-03-20T18:33:00.000Z<I>'They were annexed by the Scottish crown in 1472, the nasty bullies (I don't remember that being mentioned in Braveheart).</I><BR/><BR/>This contains an inference that an act of force was involved - nothing could be further from the truth. Orkney and Shetland were obtained through the Treaty of Perth in 1468 for the marriage of James iii of Scotland to the daughter of king Christian of Denmark -<BR/><BR/><I>SOURCE: 'Scottish Historical Documents' by Professor Gordon Donaldson, '1468-9 ACQUISITION OF ORKNEY AND SHETLAND',pp 85-87, ISBN 1 897784 41 4.<BR/><BR/>'Under James III the lordship of Kilmarnock, formerly the property of the Boyds, was acquired; the earldom of Orkney and lordship of Shetland were annexed to the crown in 1471, the earldom of Ross and the southern territories of the lordship of the Isles in 1476...It was an advantage that fifteenth-century kings, unlike Robert II, had few offspring clamouring for earldoms and lordships; in the whole century not a single king's son founded a new comital family which endured.'<BR/><BR/>SOURCE: 'Scotland: The Shaping of a Nation' by Gordon Donaldson, pp 84-85, ISBN 0 7153 6904 0.</I><BR/><BR/>These events occurred AFTER the events depicted in 'Braveheart'.Michael Follonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240836734238072216noreply@blogger.com