The coat of arms of the king of Scots and the House of macMalcom comes from WappenWiki ( /) (Retrieved: ). Historical borders and other parts comes from Lynch's Scotland: A New History (1992). I also added regions using my own knowledge of Scotland. Then, I found data regarding medieval provincial lordships and earldoms, and names of regions from McNeill's An Atlas of Scottish History to 1707 (1996). Using topographical data from the Pargamon World Atlas (1962), I created the basemap on Inkscape. This extremely detailed map of Scotland was created over the course of 2 months using a wide variety of sources. The Wars of Independence led to a Scottish civil war between Scottish resistance (the Guardians, including Wallace and later King Robert Bruce) and the death of the macMalcom dynasty. Upon her death, the Kingdom of Scotland would see its crown contested by Edward I, who invaded while King John Balliol was on the throne. The descendants of the Kingdom of the Isles' king, Somerled, retained control of their share of the territory under the Scottish king.įollowing 1286, Scotland faced a dynastic crisis as Alexander III was succeeded by Margaret, Maid of Norway.

After the Treaty of Perth (1266), Norway ceded the Western Isles to Scotland. As the kingdom underwent centralisation and the economy soared, the king introduced sheriffdoms to maintain grasp on regions of Scotland and appointed loyal (often English and French) lords and earls to overlook parts of the kingdom. This is a more detailed map of my previous Scottish map.ĭuring the macMalcom dynasty, Scotland underwent Anglo-Norman settlement that led to the introduction of a hybrid Celtic-English feudal system with the king in charge.

Map of a feudal kingdoms