…THE GREAT CAUSE
Dec 11, 2021
2 minutes
hen Margaret, maid of Norway – the designated successor of the late King Alexander III – died at Orkney in September 1290, Scotland found itself in a delicate predicament. The extinction of the royal line left no obvious heir to the throne, and ultimately thirteen different candidates emerged to lay claim to the kingship. Very quickly, however, it became clear that the most plausible contenders were two descendants of
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