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Imperial, royal, noble,gentry and chivalric ranks in Europe. Thane ( / ˈθeɪn /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [ 1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [ 2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.
Battle of Flodden. 9 September 1513. Northumberland, England. Part of the War of the League of Cambrai. Kingdom of England. Defeat. Battle of Haddon Rig. 24 August 1542. Teviotdale, Scotland.
v. t. e. Scotland in the Middle Ages concerns the history of Scotland from the departure of the Romans to the adoption of major aspects of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. From the fifth century northern Britain was divided into a series of kingdoms. Of these the four most important to emerge were the Picts, the Gaels of Dál ...
In 1603, England and Scotland were joined in a "personal union" when King James VI of Scotland succeeded to the throne of England as King James I. War between the two states largely ceased, although the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in the 17th century, and the Jacobite risings of the 18th century, are sometimes characterised as Anglo-Scottish ...
724. Drust and Nechtan mac Der-Ilei fight civil war (to 729). 732. Death of Nechtan mac Der-Ilei; Óengus mac Fergusa becomes King of the Picts. 735. Óengus mac Fergusa, King of the Picts, campaigns against Dál Riata, and seizes and burns the royal centre of Dunadd . 736.
Alma mater. Christ Church, Oxford. Known for. Doctrine of Lapse. James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie KT PC (22 April 1812 – 19 December 1860), known as the Earl of Dalhousie between 1838 and 1849, was a Scottish statesman and colonial administrator in British India. He served as Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856.
1332: War breaks out between Edward III and David II of Scotland, beginning the Second War of Scottish Independence. Scotland was a French ally under the Auld Alliance. 1335: Philip VI makes plans for sending an expedition force to Scotland. 1336: 26 January: Draft peace treaty agreed to between England and Scotland pending approval of David II.
The recorded history of Scotland begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in the 1st century, when the province of Britannia reached as far north as the Antonine Wall. North of this was Caledonia, inhabited by the Picti, whose uprisings forced Rome's legions back to Hadrian's Wall. As Rome finally withdrew from Britain, a Gaelic tribe from ...