Natural Law and Democracy [PDF]
By Robert de Limburgh
© 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
A concise history of Limburg
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"Scottish Merchants have traded with Limburg since 1068
when the first recorded instance occured. A small trading ship
carried a load of Linen cloth, bales of wool and salted fish up
the river Meuse to Mestreech, the capital of Limburg. The River
Meuse passes through Rotterdam and finally flows into the North
Sea at Hook of Holland. The Scottish merchants purchased roofing
slates and in later centuries, pantiles, Materials for making
Glass (the raw material (silicon) was (and is still being) won
in Western Limburg (in a region called De Kempe, a sand plateau).
This trade continued right up till the late middle ages when Shipping
became too large to navigate the river. King Robert the Bruce's
great house was apparently roofed with slates from the low countries,
quite possibly from Limburg."
Vaan van Limbörg
(Flag of Limburg)
