Holyrood Abbey - Holyrood Abbey Holyrood Abbey, located in Edinburgh, Scotland, within the grounds of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, was built in 1128 at the order of King David I of Scotland. The roof of the abbey collapsed in the 18th century, leaving it as it currently stands, a ruin. "Rood" is an old word for "cross," usually meaning that of Jesus Christ, so the name is equivalent to "Holy Cross." Since the fifteenth century, it has been the site of many royal coronations and marriage ceremonies..
Abbeys and priories in Scotland - Scotland Abbeys and priories in Scotland is a link page to any abbey, priory or other religious house in Scotland See also: List of abbeys and priories, Abbeys and priories in England, Abbeys and priories in Wales, Dissolution of the Monasteries, List of castles, List of museums, List of historic houses Sort into regions: Arbroath Abbey (Tironensian) Ross Priory, Loch Lomond Scone Abbey Edinburgh Holyrood Abbey Fife Balmerino Abbey Dunfermline Abbey Lindores Abbey Highland Beauly Priory Scottish Borders Abbey St. Bathans Dryburgh Abbey Jedburgh Abbey Kelso Abbey Melrose Abbey Stirling Inchmahome Priory, Lake Menteith.
James V of Scotland - France. Following her death a few months later, he proceeded to marry Mary of Guise, widow of Louis de Longueville. Although Mary already had two children from her first marriage, both her sons by James died in infancy. The death of his mother in 1541 removed any incentive for keeping peace with England, but James was defeated at the Battle of Solway Moss in 1542. The setback affected his health, and he was on his deathbed when his only living heir, a girl, was born in December of the same year. He died on December 14, 1542, and was succeeded by his infant daughter, Mary I of Scotland. He was buried at Holyrood Abbey. Preceded by: James IV List of British monarchs Succeeded by: Mary, Queen of Scots.
James IV of Scotland - Henry VII of England, he recognized that he could not hope to gain the upper hand and so attempted to maintain peace with his neighbor by marrying Henry's daughter, Margaret Tudor, on August 8, 1503, at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh. The couple's first three children all died in infancy. When war broke out between England and France, James found himself in a difficult position. The new king of England, Henry VIII, attempted to invade France in 1513, and James reacted by declaring war on England. Hoping to take advantage of Henry's absence, he led an invading army southward, only to be killed, with many of his nobles, at the disastrous Battle of Flodden Field on September 9. A body thought to be his was recovered from the battlefield and taken to London.
James III of Scotland - by Hugo van der Goes, which was probably not commissioned by the king, and an unusual hexagonal chapel at Restalrig near Edinburgh, perhaps inspired by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. His exact date and place of birth remain unclear. It was in either May, 1452, or July 10 or July 20, 1451. The place of birth was either Stirling Castle of the Castle of St Andrews. He succeeded his father, James II on August 3, 1460, and was crowned at Kelso Abbey, Roxburghshire a week later. During his childhood, the government was led by three successive factions, led respectively by the king's mother, Queen Mary of Gueldres (1460-3) (who briefly secured the return of the town of Berwick to Scotland), James Kennedy, bishop of St Andrews and Gilbert,.
James II of Scotland - and Lord Livingstone. The Black Douglas entered the fray and succeeded in defeating and executing Livingstone. Crichton, in turn, manipulated James into killing the Black Douglas. Eventually, James II defeated the Douglas family at the battle of Arkinholm. He is remembered for other actions as well. He changed the capital of Scotland from Perth to Edinburgh and made laws that guaranteed the position of a tenant whose land passed to another owner or lord. He married Mary of Gueldres at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, on July 3, 1449. They had seven children, including James III of Scotland and the abducted Margaret. He died when a cannon blew up near him during a siege of Roxburgh Castle, in which he was trying to recapture the castle from the English. Preceded by: James I.
Historic Sites in Scotland - Perthshire Dunfallandy Stone, Perthshire Roman sites Antonine Wall, Scottish Lowlands Trimontium, Scottish Borders Castles, Abbeys and Historic Houses Castle Tioram, Moidart Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness Stirling Castle Edinburgh Castle Blair Castle, Perthshire Scone Palace, Perthshire Iona Abbey, Mull, Argyll Dunkeld Cathedral, Perthshire St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney Arbroath Abbey, Angus Fort Augustus Abbey Melrose Abbey, Scottish Borders Jedburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders Glasgow Cathedral Linlithgow Palace, Midlothian Traquair House, Scottish Borders Abbotsford House, Scottish Borders Palace of Holyrood, Edinburgh Wallace Monument, Stirling Historic sites and battles Stirling Bridge, 1297 Bannockburn 1314 Killiecrankie, 1689 Glenfinnan, (Raising of Standard in 1745, see Jacobitism) Culloden, 1746 Social History Highland Folk Museum, Scottish Highlands Atholl Country Life Museum, Perthshire Georgian House, Edinburgh New Lanark, South Lanarkshire People's Palace, Glasgow Scotland Street School Museum, Glasgow Springburn Museum,.
1128 - to gain full independence from the Kingdom of Leon Geoffrey of Anjou marries Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England Holyrood Abbey built in Edinburgh Births Absalon, Danish archbishop and statesman Deaths Ranulf Flambard, bishop of Durham Teresa of Portugal, founder of the Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria de Montederramo Gabriel II, Coptic pope.
1503 - names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there. May 13 - Capture of Naples by the Spanish. August 8 - King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland. September 22 - Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini becomes Pope Pius III succeeding Pope Alexander VI, but dies on October 18. December 29 - Battle of the Garigliano - Spanish forces under Cordoba defeat a French-Italian mercenary army under the Marquis of Saluzzo. The French forces withdraw to Gaeta Giuliano della Rovere becomes Pope Julius II succeeding Pope Pius III Leonardo da Vinci starts work on the Mona Lisa Perpendicular style chapel added to Westminster Abbey Battle of Ruvo - French-Spanish Wars in Italy Vasco da Gama established India's first Portuguese.
Anne of Denmark - her coffin. In August 1589, she was married, by proxy, to James, the young king of Scotland, and their actual wedding ceremony took place in Oslo, Norway, on November 23 of that year. Anne was brought to Scotland and crowned queen on May 17, 1590, at Holyrood Abbey. Although she was brought up a Lutheran, she converted to Catholicism shortly after marrying James, which was unpopular among the people of Scotland (and later of England). Her extravagant expenditure also posed problems for her husband. Following her husband's accession to the English throne in 1603, she was crowned with him on July 25 at Westminster Abbey. By this time, she was the mother of three living children (Henry, Elizabeth and Charles), but also suffered several miscarriages and still births, and had another.
List of buildings - John Hancock building, Chicago, Illinois, United States Himeji castle, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, Japan Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Hiroshima, Japan Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Hopewell Centre, Hong Kong Jefferson Arch, St. Louis, Missouri, United States Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C USA J.P. Morgan Chase Tower, Houston, Texas, United States The Kaaba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Leinster House, Dublin, Ireland Lighthouse of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt Madeleine, Église de la, Paris Mall of America, Bloomington, Minnesota, United States Marie-Reine-du-Monde Cathedral, Montréal, Quebec, Canada Milan Central Station, Milan, Italy Milano, Duomo di, Milan, Italy Millennium Dome, London, United Kingdom El Morro Castle, San Juan, Puerto Rico Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montréal, Quebec, Canada Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris, France Orsanmichele, Florence, Italy Pan Am Building, New York City The Panthéon, Paris, France.
Kirkstall Abbey - Kirkstall Abbey Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in the outskirts of Leeds in Yorkshire, set in grounds on the north bank of the River Aire. It was originally founded c. 1152 and was over seventy five years in construction. It was closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under the auspices of Henry VIII. The ruins have been painted by artists such as J.M.W. Turner. The English Cistercian houses, of which there are such extensive and beautiful remains at Fountains, Rievaulx, Kirkstall, Tintern, Netley, etc., were mainly arranged after the same plan, with slight local variations. As an example, below is the groundplan of Kirkstall Abbey, one of the best preserved. The church here is of the Cistercian type, with a short chancel of two.
Jervaulx Abbey - Jervaulx Abbey Jervaulx Abbey was one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, founded in 1156. It was dissolved in 1537, and its last abbot was hanged for his part in the Pilgrimage of Grace. The ruins of the abbey are open to the public..
Hailes Abbey - Hailes Abbey Hailes Abbey is near Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, England. Founded in 1246 by Richard, Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans and the younger brother of King Henry III of England, this once great Ciscertian abbey became a site of pilgrimage when Richard's son Edmund donated a phial of the holy blood to the community in 1270. Hailes Abbey was one of the last religious institutions to acquiesce following the Dissolution Act of 1536. Abbot Stephen Sagar and his monks finally surrendered their abbey to King Henry VIII's commissioners on Christmas Eve 1539. After the Dissolution, the west range was converted into a house and was home to the Tracy family in the seventeenth century, but these buildings were later demolished and now all that remains.
Holyrood Palace - Holyrood Palace The Palace of Holyroodhouse, more commonly known as Holyrood Palace, originally founded as a monastery by David I of Scotland in 1128, has served as the principal residence of the Kings and Queens of Scotland since the 15th century. From 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of England and moved to London, until the reign of King George IV (1820 - 1830), the palace remained an unused royal residence. In modern times, monarchs have spent one week every year formally holding court in the Palace in Edinburgh. The present Queen of the United Kingdom still uses it when she visits Scotland for State occasions (on non-State occasions, she stays at Balmoral). Its use has increased substantially since the setting up.
Holyrood, Kansas - Holyrood, Kansas Holyrood is a city located in Ellsworth County, Kansas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 464. Geography \nHolyrood is located at 38°35'15" North, 98°24'43" West (38.587543, -98.412050)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.0 km² (0.4 mi²). 1.0 km² (0.4 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 464 people, 213 households, and 138 families residing in the city. The population density is 484.2/km² (1,238.4/mi²). There are 265 housing units at an average density of 276.5/km² (707.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 98.49% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific.
Holyrood - Holyrood The name 'Holyrood may refer to: the official seat of the Scottish Parliament Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh one of the areas of Edinburgh This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix the link, so that it points to the appropriate page..
Holyrood, Newfoundland and Labrador - Holyrood, Newfoundland and Labrador Holyrood is a town on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is in Division No. 1, on Conception Bay According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census: Population: 1,906 % Change (1996-2001): -8.7 Dwellings: 744 Area (sq. km.): 125.57 Density (persons per sq. km.): 15.2 North: Conception Bay South West: Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview, Division No. 1, Subd. O Holyrood East: Division No. 1, Subd. D South: Division No. 1, Subd. W.
Fountains Abbey - Fountains Abbey Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, first founded A.D. 1132. Though the buildings are now partly ruined, it is one of the largest and best preserved Cistercian houses in England and is a UNESCO World heritage site. It is now owned and maintained by the National Trust. The earliest buildings received considerable additions and alterations in the later period of the order, causing deviations from the strict Cistercian type. The church stands a short distance to the north of the river Skell, the buildings of the abbey stretching down to and even across the stream. We have the cloister (H) to the south, with the three-aisled chapter-house (I) and calefactory (L) opening from its eastern walk, and the refectory (S), with the kitchen (Q) and buttery (T) attached,.
Fontevraud Abbey - Fontevraud Abbey The Fontevraud Abbey (or Fontevrault Abbey) is located near Chinon, in Anjou, France. It was constructed between 1110 and 1119 and founded by Robert d'Abrissel who had just created a new order. The abbey contains the tombs of Eleanor of Aquitaine, her husband King Henry II of England, their son King Richard I of England, their daughter Joan, and Isabella of Angoulême, wife of their son King John. The monastery became quite successful, attracting many rich and noble abbesses over the years. The Plantagenets were large benefactors of the Abbey and King Henri II’s sister Mathilde was Abbess at Fontevraud. During the French revolution, the order was dissolved; the Abbey later became a prison and was given to the French Ministry of Culture in 1963..
