• The Statutes of Iona, passed in Scotland in 1609, required that Highland Scottish clan chiefs send their heirs to Lowland Scotland to be educated in English-speaking...
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    Iona (/aɪˈoʊnə/; Scottish Gaelic: Ì Chaluim Chille [ˈiː ˈxal̪ˠɪm ˈçiʎə] , sometimes simply Ì) is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull...
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    Highland Clearances (category History of the Scottish Highlands)
    of themselves simply as commercial landlords, rather than as patriarchs of their people—a process that arguably started with the Statutes of Iona of 1609...
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    Gaels (redirect from Gaels of Scotland)
    needed] first in the Scottish Highlands via repressive laws such as the Statutes of Iona, and then in Ireland by colonizing Gaelic land with English and Scots-speaking...
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    Handfasting (category Social history of the United Kingdom)
    that formed the Statutes of Iona in 1609 and the Regulations for the Chiefs in 1616, was induced to insert a clause in the Statutes of Iona by which 'marriages...
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    Cathcart, "The Statutes of Iona: The archipelagic context", Journal of British Studies 49 (2010), 4–27 Donald Gregory, The History of the Western Highlands...
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    the Northern Isles, James's cousin Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, resisted the Statutes of Iona and was consequently imprisoned. His natural son Robert...
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    of turmoil, from Scots nobles learning only English as a first language as far back as the 13th century, the implementation of the Statutes of Iona in...
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    Union of the Crowns, James VI had the military strength to back up any attempts to impose some control. The result was, in 1609, the Statutes of Iona which...
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    This ended the Irish practice of using Highland gallowglass, or mercenaries. The 1609 Statutes of Iona imposed a range of measures on clan chiefs, designed...
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    of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of...
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    The 1609 Statutes of Iona compelled the cultural integration of Hebridean clan leaders.: 37–40  In 1641 and again in 1643, the Parliament of Scotland...
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    Statutes of Iona Clan Chief of the name An exception to this armorial insignificance being the chief's right to supporters if the chief has a coat of arms,...
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    Scota (category Stone of Scone)
    Scottish legend, Scota is the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh and ancestor of the Gaels. She is said to be the origin of their Latin name Scoti, but historians...
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    resulted in the enactment of the Statutes of Iona which compelled integration of Hebridean clan leaders with the rest of Scottish society.: 37–40  Attempts...
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    Clan Mackinnon (category Gaelic families of Norse descent)
    of the clan, Lauchlane McKynnoun of that Ilk, was one of the highland chiefs and leading men who witnessed the statutes known as the Statutes of Iona...
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    efforts began to encourage use of the language. The Statutes of Iona, enacted by James VI in 1609, was one piece of legislation that addressed, among...
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  • Baronet of Morvern. The seat of the chiefs of Clan MacLean is Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull. Duart was given to Lachlan Lubanach Maclean as part of his...
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  • Middle Scots (category Historical forms of languages with ISO codes)
    Highlanders to the Catholic faith during the Reformation led to the 1609 Statutes of Iona forcing clan chiefs to establish Protestant churches, send their sons...
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  • English-medium education (category History of education)
    Parliament of Scotland passed some ten such acts between 1494 and 1698. In 1609 nine Gaelic chieftains were abducted and forced to sign the Statutes of Iona, which...
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    capital of Poland. The municipality of Buenavista in Marinduque, Philippines is founded. The Statutes of Iona are passed, marking the end of the bloody...
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    have been finished. The statutes of Iona, in 1610, had introduced a programme of government oversight of the religious behaviour of highlands leaders; the...
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  • capital of Poland. The municipality of Buenavista in Marinduque, Philippines is founded. The Statutes of Iona are passed, marking the end of the bloody...
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    the Earls in 1607, while the Statutes of Iona attempted to de-Gaelicise the Highland Scots in 1609. The effects of these initiates were mixed, but took...
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    Gaelic warfare (category Warfare of the Middle Ages)
    through the destruction of their employers, the Gaelic nobility and by the pacification of the Scottish Gaels with the Statutes of Iona and the Highland clearances...
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  • century. Previously, the cloth had been called lachdann in Gaelic. The Statutes of Iona (1609) and the Privy Council Acts (1616) promoted the Scots language...
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    The leader of the MacNeils did not submit to the 1609 Statutes of Iona. Using this as justification, Clan Ranald drove the MacNeils out of Lochboisdale...
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  • The Rough Bounds (category Geography of Highland (council area))
    the lands are simply those that lay west from Lochaber. In 1609, the Statutes of Iona attempted to enforce the Scottish reformation in the highlands, but...
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  • The North/South Language Body (category Languages of the Republic of Ireland)
    agreed by Ministers in the North/South Ministerial Council (NSMC) in Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland with regard to the Irish and Ulster-Scots (or...
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  • Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    anti-Catholic Sheriff of Argyllshire, to retaliate by summoning Raghnaill mac Ailein to Inverary for criminal prosecution under the Statutes of Iona were ignored...
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