Scottish Isle of Man

[T-Mag 3004]

As it says on the tin.

Make it so that the Isle of Man is just as much a part of Scotland as the Hebrides are.
and have it remain as such even after the acts of union.

Does this somehow mean a more likely survival of Manx?

 

[Nik]

Tricky: You'd have to beat off or suppress the Vikings who controlled it for a long, long time...

 

[M79]

Technically it *was* for quite some time. Its title was sold to the British Crown for serious bank in the latr 18th/early 19th century. Are you saying make it part of the Stuart demense or change its character to Scottish?

 

[T-Mag 3004]

IHDK how to express it any other way than "It has to belong to the Scottish Crown just like the Hebrides, Orkney & Shetland"

Although my reasoning for wanting Man to be Scottish is because of the Vikings/Norway. Turns out Man was Scottish before, then in the mediaeval period, it had a brief period of independence before the English took it as a Crown land.

Perhaps instead of losing interest in it in 1334, have them keep it and keep it until the present.

[EDIT] Even then, Man didn't become English again until 1399 so they have more than enough time to reconquer it.

 

[Droman]

Easy, upon the purchase of Lordship of the Isle of Man by the British monarchy, the island is merged into Scotland as a constituent county or shire for administrative purposes rather than remain as a crown dependency with a Lord Lieutenant. The title itself goes to the crown prince, who probably folds it into the Lordship of the Isles title with which it has history. It might get considered a part of Argyll or Galloway (again, with which it has history), or it might get it's own status as a county.