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Hace 1 día · In 1389, the first king of the House of Stewart, Robert II, made Linlithgow a royal burgh, with a plethora of trade advantages including the administration of the port of Blackness on the Forth. The town would go on to have a long association with the Stewart monarchs. Much of Linlithgow was destroyed by fire in 1424, and on his return from ...
Hace 2 días · She issued a proclamation accepting the religious settlement in Scotland as she had found it upon her return, retained advisers such as James Stewart, Earl of Moray (her illegitimate half-brother), and William Maitland of Lethington, and governed as the Catholic monarch of a Protestant kingdom.
Hace 3 días · What life was like for the people who lived and worked there. And how popular the move from Old Cullen was with the residents. Why was it decided to move Old Cullen? The earliest records of Cullen...
Hace 3 días · Among them, the romantic ancient Fordell castle and Donibristie, the erstwhile residence of the Earls of Moray and the subject of a charming old ballad, catch the eye. In a gruesome encounter that unfolded in 1592, George Gordon, the Earl of Huntly, murdered his rival James Stewart, the 2nd Earl of Moray, by the seaside.
Hace 16 horas · Mary, Queen Of Scots Facts. After enduring betrayal, imprisonment, and a botched execution, Mary, Queen of Scots, is truly one of history's tragic figures.
Hace 1 día · A 28-year-old Moray man refused to let his partner attend a medical appointment even though she was pregnant. James Stewart has been jailed at Inverness Sheriff Court after admitting carrying out "a sustained and callous course of abusive behaviour" lasting more than two years. Stewart’s cruel campaign against his ex-partner occured between ...
Hace 4 días · 18th. In 1898, actor John Stuart was born in Edinburgh; he appeared in more than 150 films including The Loves of Mary Queen of Scots (1923), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932), Escape From ...
