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Europe · High and late Middle Ages

Isle of Man

drawn on the map 1344–1401

Between the collapse of Norse-Scottish rule and the Stanley period, Man passed through a phase of English lordship. On 9 August 1333, Edward III recognised the island as a kingdom under William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury ("King of Mann"; his reign is dated 1333, with a coronation "in the early 1340s" per the chronicler Geoffrey le Baker).

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Shown on the map
1344–1401
Peak area
765 km²
Region
Europe

Overview

Between the collapse of Norse-Scottish rule and the Stanley period, Man passed through a phase of English lordship. On 9 August 1333, Edward III recognised the island as a kingdom under William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury ("King of Mann"; his reign is dated 1333, with a coronation "in the early 1340s" per the chronicler Geoffrey le Baker). His son (2nd Earl) sold the island and its royal style to Sir William le Scrope in 1392–93; Scrope was beheaded for treason in 1399, and the Crown then granted Man to Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland. After Percy's rebellion, Henry IV granted the island to Sir John Stanley in 1405 (confirmed to his heirs in 1406, the feudal render being homage and two falcons at each English coronation), beginning the long Stanley/Derby lordship. The title "Lord of Mann" thereafter replaced "King of Mann."

Common questions

What was the Isle of Man?
Between the collapse of Norse-Scottish rule and the Stanley period, Man passed through a phase of English lordship. On 9 August 1333, Edward III recognised the island as a kingdom under William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury ("King of Mann"; his reign is dated 1333, with a coronation "in the early 1340s" per the chronicler Geoffrey le Baker).
When is the Isle of Man shown on the map?
The border data draws the Isle of Man 1344–1401. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was the Isle of Man?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Isle of Man covered about 1,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each kingdom as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, national heritage bodies (Historic Environment Wales and Scotland, the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust), museum sources and the Dictionary of Irish Biography, read against the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bede and the Irish annals with their own biases. The article this entry is anchored on:

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This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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