The Stewart Earls of Orkney

The Stewart Earls of Orkney

Peter Anderson

Språken
FörlagJohn Donald
ISBN9780857906724

For almost a century the islands of Orkney and Shetland were under the rule of the Stewart earls, father and son, a rule remarkable for its infamous reputation in island history. Robert Stewart was an illegitimate son of James V, king of Scots, who seized power in Orkney in the 1560s and was created