The Saxon Connection: St Margaret of Scotland, Morgan Colman’s Genealogies, and James VI & I’s Anglo-Scottish Union Project

Q3 Arts and Humanities Royal Studies Journal Pub Date : 2021-06-07 DOI:10.21039/RSJ.299
J. Massey
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James VI of Scotland’s succession to the English throne as James I in 1603 was usually justified by contemporaries on the grounds that James was Henry VII’s senior surviving descendant, making him the rightful hereditary claimant. Some works, however, argued that James also had the senior Saxon hereditary claim to the English throne due his descent from St Margaret of Scotland—making his hereditary claim superior to that of any English monarch from William the Conqueror onwards. Morgan Colman’s Arbor Regalis, a large and impressive genealogy, was a visual assertion of this argument, showing that James’s senior hereditary claims to the thrones of both England and Scotland went all the way back to the very foundations of the two kingdoms. This article argues that Colman’s genealogy could also be interpreted in support of James’s Anglo-Scottish union project, showing that the permanent union of England and Scotland as Great Britain was both historically legitimate and a justifiable outcome of James’s combined hereditary claims.
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撒克逊人的联系:苏格兰的圣玛格丽特、摩根·科尔曼的家谱和詹姆斯六世和我的盎格鲁-苏格兰联盟项目
1603年,苏格兰的詹姆斯六世以詹姆斯一世的身份继承英国王位,同时代人通常认为詹姆斯是亨利七世在世的年长后代,使他成为合法的世袭继承人。然而,一些著作认为,由于詹姆斯是苏格兰圣玛格丽特的后裔,他对英国王位也有高级撒克逊世袭要求,这使得他的世袭要求高于征服者威廉之后的任何英国君主。Morgan Colman的Arbor Regalis是一本庞大而令人印象深刻的家谱,它直观地证明了这一论点,表明詹姆斯对英格兰和苏格兰王位的高级世袭要求可以追溯到这两个王国的根基。这篇文章认为,科尔曼的家谱也可以被解释为支持詹姆斯的盎格鲁-苏格兰联盟项目,表明英格兰和苏格兰作为大不列颠的永久联盟在历史上是合法的,也是詹姆斯联合世袭主张的合理结果。
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