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Happy 700th to the Declaration of Arbroath, #Arbroath700 . It was a male concern but for #MondayMotivaton here's a THREAD of cracking 14th century lasses 👇1st, resistance leader, Christina Bruce (yes that Bruce) who held Kildrummy Castle in 1333. Pretty formidable quine. /1 
Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan, helped crown the Bruce in 1306. She was caged at Berwick for her affiliation with the Bruce cause - this means she was imprisoned in a cage hung off the side of a castle. In the open air. Say, what? I know, the middle ages were fierce. /2
This lass is Marjory Bruce who wd have become Queen of Scotland on the Bruce's death had she not died falling from a horse while pregnant. Her child was saved & became Robert II. Ill-fated, she was also caged at the Tower of London for a while and held prisoner in a nunnery. /3
Good morning all & OTD 700 years ago, the Declaration of Arbroath was made by the Scots Nobility & Clergy to the Pope: "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom–for that alone which no honest man gives up but with life itself"🏴
Today is the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath (1320) and all of it is worth reading as a statement of the rights conferred by God & natural law upon all peoples
#Scotland #Arbroath700 🏴
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#Scotland #Arbroath700 🏴
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"But from these countless evils we have been set free, by the help of Him Who though He afflicts yet heals and restores, by our most tireless Prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert."
#Scotland #Arbroath700 🏴
#Scotland #Arbroath700 🏴
