Ontario High School History of England . Robert III (1390-1406), were not strongkings. It is a striking fact that every one of their successors,for more than two hundred years, became sovereign when stilla child,* and this condition lasted until Charles I inheritedthe throne in 1625. The result was that the turbulent nobleswere continually struggling for mastery. In foreign affairsScotland was led by France, and warred on England whenFrance did. The country was very backward. Not until 1411, more than two hundredyears after the founding ofOxford, was the first Scottishuniversity, that of St. A
Ontario High School History of England . Robert III (1390-1406), were not strongkings. It is a striking fact that every one of their successors,for more than two hundred years, became sovereign when stilla child,* and this condition lasted until Charles I inheritedthe throne in 1625. The result was that the turbulent nobleswere continually struggling for mastery. In foreign affairsScotland was led by France, and warred on England whenFrance did. The country was very backward. Not until 1411, more than two hundredyears after the founding ofOxford, was the first Scottishuniversity, that of St. An-drews, established. TheHighlanders were still halfbarbarous, while the borderregion adjoining England wasswept incessantly by cruelborder wars. Union of the Tudor andStuart lines.—The Yorkistenemies of Henry VII hadfound in James IV of Scot-land a steadfast Perkin Warbeck pre-tended to be the son ofEdward IV, James welcomedhim and gave him in marriage a woman of rank, LadyCatherine Gordon. Happy relations between the two. Margaret, Queen of Scotland,Daughter op Henry VII (1489-1541) *THE STUART KINGS OF SCOTLAND TO JAMES VI Robert II b. 1316 Robert III b. 1340? James I b. 1394 James II James III James IV 6. 1473 Jame? V Mary, Qupen of Scots .. .6. 1542James VI (I of England) 6. 1566 — reign 1370-13901390-14061406-14371437-14601460-14881488-15131513-15421542-15671567-1625 THE TUDOR MONARCHY 187 countries seemed still far away. Yet their foundation wasnow being laid. Henrys far-seeing tact brought about aunion of the Tudor and the Stuart houses in marriage. In1503, his daughter Margaret married James IV of Scotland;and it was through her that the Scottish royal line, theStuarts, came, in time, to rule England. When the marriagewas planned, Henry was asked if there was not a dangerthat England might become an appendage of the Scottishcrown. No, said the sage king, Scotland will becomean appendage of the English crown, for the smaller mustfoll
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