John Balliol crowned King of Scots
1292
After a legal arbitration known as the Great Cause, Edward I selected John Balliol as king of Scotland from a crowded field of claimants. Balliol was enthroned at Scone on a stone his English overlord would soon confiscate. His reign would not last four years. Edward's manipulation of the succession process revealed his true intention: not to settle Scottish affairs fairly but to establish English suzerainty over Scotland.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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