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		<title>Tarah Scott on the MacGregors and the Highland Clearances</title>
		<link>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2012/09/tarah-scott-on-the-macgregors-and-the-highland-clearances/</link>
		<comments>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2012/09/tarah-scott-on-the-macgregors-and-the-highland-clearances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Highland Clearances]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How does a woman tell her betrothed that she  murdered her first husband? &#160; Elise Kingston is a wanted woman. Nothing,  not even Highlander Marcus MacGregor, will stop her from returning home to  ensure that the man responsible for her daughter&#8217;s death hangs. &#160; Until she must choose between his life and  her revenge. &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iain The Pict on Scottish Heroes</title>
		<link>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2012/03/ian-colville-on-scottish-heroes/</link>
		<comments>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2012/03/ian-colville-on-scottish-heroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alexander III]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chester]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome today my friend Ian Colville.  In a virtual case of It&#8217;s a Small World, I &#8216;met&#8217; Ian, as best as I can remember (Ian will hopefully correct me if I&#8217;m wrong), when he stopped by my blog or facebook author page and said hello, having read my book.  On checking out his site, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scottish Welsh Connection by Sarah Woodbury</title>
		<link>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/02/the-scottish-welsh-connection-by-sarah-woodbury/</link>
		<comments>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/02/the-scottish-welsh-connection-by-sarah-woodbury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alexander III]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Time Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[after cilmeri]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[History has always fascinated me, but some eras could have ended better. The thirteenth century is full of these unfortunate events. It ended badly for Scotland, but even worse for Wales, which lost its prince and its independence to King Edward I of England. Edward had his eyes on Wales for thirty years, ever since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unfortunate Adam Newton</title>
		<link>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2011/01/the-unfortunate-adam-newton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Minor Actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert the Bruce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hartlepool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jocelin]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was not Adam Newton&#8217;s day.  He must have wondered, when he heard that he would be the next messenger to Robert the Bruce, what he had done to anger the clerics above him.  The previous messengers, sent by the cardinals Luke and Jocelin, probably in early September 1317, had been pleasantly but firmly sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>England&#8217;s Claim to Be Overlords of Scotland</title>
		<link>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/08/englands-claim-to-be-overlords-of-scotland/</link>
		<comments>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/08/englands-claim-to-be-overlords-of-scotland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Central to Robert Bruce&#8217;s struggles, and Scotland&#8217;s Wars of Independence which form the backdrop of The Blue Bells Trilogy, is England&#8217;s claim to be overlords of Scotland. Why Edward I claimed, in the late 1200&#8242;s, to be overlord of Scotland requires a trip back to 1174.  (Fasten your seatbelts, our time machine is revving its engines!)  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bruce Brothers</title>
		<link>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/04/the-bruce-brothers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While sources disagree on the numbers and names of Bruce&#8217;s younger sisters, there is widespread agreement on his brothers.  Only one leaves out Alexander, the youngest.  Nobody could argue that Bruce&#8217;s sisters had easy lives.  Much less so he and his brothers.  Of the five, Bruce, Neil, Edward, Thomas, and Alexander, only Bruce died peacefully, though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Balliol</title>
		<link>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/02/john-balliol/</link>
		<comments>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/02/john-balliol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clan History]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Balliol is a name largely unknown to Americans, but he had the fortune&#8211;good or bad&#8211;to be briefly king of Scotland. John Balliol&#8217;s kingship came via several avenues.  The first was the luck of the draw: he just so happened to be born a great-great-great grandson of David I of Scotland.  I&#8217;m guessing most of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling All John Comyns</title>
		<link>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/02/calling-all-john-comyns/</link>
		<comments>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/02/calling-all-john-comyns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clan History]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the difficulties of researching medieval times is that of repetitive names, and people with a multitude of names.  In medieval Scotland, there are an abundance of Williams, Alexanders, and Roberts.  Even adding last names doesn&#8217;t always help.  Take the name John Comyn.  In the time of Robert Bruce, alone, there are several of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 10 at Greyfriars Kirk</title>
		<link>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/02/february-10-at-greyfriars-kirk/</link>
		<comments>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2010/02/february-10-at-greyfriars-kirk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 10 is the day Robert Bruce killed John Comyn in front of the altar of Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries, in 1306.  The two families, Bruces and Comyns, had long been at odds over the throne of Scotland, and in the days after John Baliol&#8217;s failed kingship, the rivalry renewed.  Bruce and John Comyn agreed to meet at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Communicated.  Again.</title>
		<link>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/11/ex-communicated-again/</link>
		<comments>https://bluebellstrilogy.com/blog/2009/11/ex-communicated-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some background information on this article, it is important to know that Bruce lived from 1274 until 1329,  200 years before Martin Luther&#8217;s 95 Theses and before Henry VIII made his split from the Catholic Church.  In other words, in his day to be Christian was to be Catholic. And Bruce himself seems to have been a [...]]]></description>
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