Legendary kings of Scotland Scottish history. When James VI entered Edinburgh in 1579 the pageantry included a public posting of the genealogy of the Scottish kings; and when his son Charles I visited in 1633, portraits of 107 kings were displayed, some of which (by George Jamesone) survive. Another series of 110 imagined portraits of the monarchs from the list was painted for Charles II by Jacob de Wet II, and hung in Holyrood Palace. The de Wet portrait collection later became a noted sight for tourists, for example as written about by John Macky, "A Journey through Scotland". While "Rerum Scoticarum Historia" was
Scots Monastery, Regensburg Fr James Dalrymple and seen as of great importance as a Scots language text. Scots Monastery, Regensburg The Scots Monastery (in German "Schottenkirche", "Schottenkloster" or "Schottenstift") is the former Benedictine Abbey of St James ("Jakobskirche") in Regensburg, Germany. It was founded in the 11th century by Irish missionaries and for most of its history was in the hands of first Irish, then Scottish monks. In Middle Latin, "Scotti" meant Gaels, not differentiating Ireland from Scotland, so that the term "Schottenstift" already dates from the Irish period. The full official name of the actual church, the most prominent building within the