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.) Any comments will be much appreciated. José Luis Fernández-Blanco

You can go to the Foundations website and purchase that issue I believe, or subscribe and read it online. I did some research on the subject for Andrew a couple of years ago. Adrian Benjamin Burke