Letter of the Community of Scotland regarding a marriage proposal between Edward I's son and the Scottish heiress (1289)
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- Name
- Letter of the Community of Scotland regarding a marriage proposal between Edward I's son and the Scottish heiress (1289)
- Description
- A 1289 letter from Scottish Guardians, Prelates, Counts and Barons to Edward I of England, consulting him on a proposed marriage between his eldest son and the heiress of Scotland (Margaret of Norway). The letter is presented in both English and Norman French versions, and was published in the Manx Society's Monumenta de Insula Manniae. The inclusion of the Bishop of Man as a signatory provides evidence of Man's ecclesiastical integration within the medieval British Isles political structure.
- Date
- Friday after the festival of St. Gregory, 1289
- Collection
- Scottish and English Contention
- Type
- Primary Source Transcription
- Date Created
- 1289
- Creator
- Guardians of the Kingdom of Scotland; Scottish Prelates, Counts, and Barons
- Audience
- Edward I, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Aquitaine
- Identifier
- Foedera, 17 Ed. I
- Language
- English, Norman French