On 29/05/2016 2:57 PM, J.L. Fernandez Blanco via wrote: > Dear Newsgroup. > > Has anybody had the chance to read MacEwen, A. B. W. ‘A Far-Fetched Alliance: the Marriage of Borwin of Rostock and Cristina of Scotland, Foundations, Vol. 7 (June 2015), pp. 3-24.? > > I found this in (I know, not the best place to look for anything) Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Project. > > Apparently, according to that study, which I haven't seen (and won't be able to do it), William the Lion, King of Scots, would have been the father of Cristina, wife of Heinrich Borwin II, Prince of Mecklenburg and Lord of Rostock. > > Cawley mentions, inter alia, "Pope Innocent IV permitted “nobili mulieri --- Sorori...Regis Scotie” to enter Doberan monastery, founded by “nobilis vir B. de Rozstoc maritus tuus”, to pray, dated 20 May 1248" (Source for this: Theiner, A. (1864) Vetera Monumenta Hibernorum et Scotorum Historia Illustrantia (Rome), CXXXV, p. 50.) > I haven't seen the article by MacEwan either, but this question was discussed by Adolf Hofmeiseter in 1920, see pp 46-47 in https://archive.org/stream/forschungenzur33vereuoft#page/46/mode/2up. Hofmeister concluded that the lord of Rostock who was husband of Cristina was evidently living in May 1248, so that she was apparently an otherwise unknown second wife of Heinrich Borwin III whose first wife Sophia had died in 1241 (despite the chronological difficulty of such a late marriage for a daughter of William), and not of his father Henrich Borwin II. However, Hofmeister suggested that "Scotie" may not be the correct reading for the kingdom of Cristina's brother. Peter Stewart