Blogging from A to Z Challenge: Q is for Quincentenary

I’m in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge for the month of April.  I need your help!  To meet this challenge, I’ll be doing one post a day, working through the alphabet.

Your job is to comment and keep me motivated!  Let me know you’re out there and following along.  Can she make it?  Will she?  Of course she will!  With you as my cheering section, I won’t be stumped by J or Q or even X.

So without further ado, here is today’s post.

Q is for the Quincentenary of the Battle of Flodden Field.  

(You didn’t think I could do it, did you?  Ha!  I fooled you.  Just wait until you see what I’ve got for X!)

A quincentenary is the 500th anniversary of an event.  This year, in September of 2013 is the 500th anniversary of the disastrous Battle of Flodden Field.  

Disastrous for the Scots, not the English.  Scotland’s King James IV was killed, along with most of his nobles, lairds and their heirs.  James V was 18 months old.  Queen Margaret, sister to Henry VIII – yes, that Henry VIII – was named Regent for a short period of time, but lost that to the Duke of Albany.  He wasn’t much help, preferring to spend time in France.

So chaos ruled, especially among the clans that had been left leaderless.  This is the setup for my Highland Talents series.  I chose this time period because of the leadership vacuum and the opportunity for stories that fit within a historical setting but didn’t depend on recognizable historical figures.

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