The author discusses the seemingly unlikely marriage of an illegitimate daughter of William I, king of Scots, to the lord of Rostock, placing it in its historical context.
He also offers a few thoughts on the Agatha problem. The marriage of Cristina, a hitherto unknown illegitimate daughter of William I, king of Scots d. Since , the Scottish royal family had given brides to Brittany, Holland, England and Norway, and had taken brides from England, France, especially north-eastern France, and Flanders. Denmark, in fact, is the sole country bordering the North Sea with which Scottish connections in this period are difficult or impossible to trace. Unbeknownst to Barrow, Margaret of Pomerellen d.
The indult had, however, soon come to the attention of German archivist Dr Friedrich Wigger, who in published his important but fatally flawed paper on the relationship of the Mecklenburg dynasty to the kings of Scotland.
Of the four seals appended to this charter, the last is described by Wigger as:. The seal shows a crowned picture of the Princess set in flower vines. The last of the eight milites who witnessed this document no. He puts in another appearance a couple of weeks later, on 6 March, witnessing a charter no. He clearly wrote no. Can any reader comment? Another seemingly English knight, Sir George of York, appears witnessing two charters of Burwin, lord of Rostock, in favour of Dargun abbey, both given at Rostock on 14 September In no.
At the very latest, she died in the first month of In one charter I, no. Waldemar himself commemorates her II, no. Only in Mecklenburg of all Germany were rulers drawn from this race. The seal of Eric X shows two crowned leopards, but not in the form of a coat-of-arms.
