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King Robert BRUCE, I of Scottland
1274 - 1329 (55 years)-
Name Robert BRUCE Prefix King Suffix I of Scottland Birth 16 Mar 1274 Turnberry Castle, Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland 
[1] Christening 11 Jul 1274 Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland [1] Gender Male Affiliation [1] Affiliation Occupation Between 1298 and 1300 [1] Guardian of the Kingdom of Scotland (Regent) TitleOfNobility 1302 [1] TitleOfNobility FORFITED HIS ENGLISH ESTATES AND TITLES 20 Feb 1306 [1] FORFITED HIS ENGLISH ESTATES AND TITLES CORONATION - CROWNED TWICE 25 Mar 1306 Old Scone, Perthshire, Scotland [1] CORONATION - CROWNED TWICE MilitaryService 19 Jun 1306 Methven, Perthshire, Scotland [1] MilitaryService Name Robert [1] Name Robert DE BRUSEE [1] _FSFTID LDQR-3KB _FSLINK https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDQR-3KB _HASHTAG KING - Designated Royal King
_UID A97732FB4B174FBFB1F7FAB0B3C55C90734A Death 15 Jun 1329 Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland [1] Burial 15 Jun 1329 Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland [1] Person ID I28959 Carney Wehofer July 2025 Last Modified 2 Jan 2023
Father Earl Robert de BRUCE, Of Carrick, b. 11 Jul 1243, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. 4 Apr 1304, Holm Cultram, Cumberland, England (Age 60 years) Mother Countess Marjory (Margaret) CARRICK, b. 11 Apr 1252, Turnberry Castle, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 27 Oct 1292, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age 40 years) Marriage 1271 Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland [2] Family ID F12696 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Isabel (Matilda) De MAR, b. 11 Jul 1277, Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. 12 Dec 1296, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland (Age 19 years) Marriage Abt 1295 1st Wife [3] Alt. Marriage 3 Jul 1296 Ayrshire, Scotland [4] Alt. Marriage Children 1. Princess Marjory Of SCOTLAND, b. 12 Dec 1296, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland d. 2 Mar 1316, Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland (Age 19 years)Family ID F5933 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
Family 2 Elisabeth De BURGH, b. 1289, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland d. 27 Oct 1327, Burgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom (Age 38 years) Marriage 1302 Writtle, Essex, England [5] Children 1. Princess Maud of Scotland, b. 12 Jul 1303, Dunfermine, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 20 Jul 1353, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 50 years)2. Matilda BRUCE, b. Abt 1304, Scotland d. 20 Jul 1353, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age ~ 49 years)3. Margaret DE BRUCE, PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, b. 1315, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland d. 30 Mar 1346, Fife, Scotland (Age 31 years)4. Princess Elizabeth De BRUCE, b. Abt 1317, Dunfermline Abbey, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d. Abt 1370 (Age ~ 53 years)5. David DE BRUCE II, King of Scotland, b. 5 Mar 1324, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland d. 22 Feb 1371, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 46 years)6. John DE BRUCE, b. 5 Mar 1324, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland d. 1326, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland (Age 1 year)Family ID F12687 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Jan 2023
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Notes - On 25 March 1306, Robert the Bruce was chosen to be King of Scots and to lead the fight for Scottish independence against Edward I of England. Born in 1274 in Ayr, the son of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, he was the grandson of the Robert Bruce who had been one of the competitors for the throne after the death of the Maid of Norway. Robert I had been on the English side when Edward moved against Balliol, but he had subsequently joined Wallace's revolt. When Wallace gave up the Guardianship of Scotland in 1298, Robert became joint Guardian with Sir John Comyn of Badenoch (Balliol's nephew). A few weeks before his coronation, Robert killed his greatest rival for the crown - his joint Guardian - in a Dumfries church, during the last of many arguments between them. For this murder, Robert was outlawed by Edward I and excommunicated by Pope Clement V. His reign did not begin well. He was defeated by the English at Methven in Perthshire; his wife, daughter and sisters were imprisoned; and three of his brothers were executed by the English. Robert fled westward to the Antrim coast. (The story of Robert drawing inspiration from a persistent spider mending its web in a cave dates from the sixteenth century.) However, he possessed real military genius and he was helped by the fact that in 1307 Edward I, the self-styled 'Hammer of the Scots', died and was succeeded by his less effective son Edward II. From 1307 onwards, with energy and determination, Robert waged highly successful guerrilla warfare against the English occupiers, establishing control north of the Forth, and gradually won back his kingdom; by 1314, Stirling was the only castle in English hands. His campaign culminated in resounding victory over Edward II (whose larger army of 20,000 outnumbered Robert's forces by three to one) at the Battle of Bannockburn, near Stirling on 24 June 1314. Bannockburn confirmed the re-establishment of an independent Scottish monarchy. Two years later, his brother and heir presumptive, Edward Bruce, was inaugurated as High King of Ireland (which increased pressure on the English), but was killed in battle in 1318. Even after Bannockburn, and the Scottish capture of Berwick in 1318, Edward II refused to give up his claim to the overlordship of Scotland, and so in 1320 the Scottish Earls, Barons and the 'community of the realm' sent a letter to Pope John XXII declaring that Robert I was their rightful monarch. This 'Declaration of Arbroath' has become perhaps the most famous document in Scottish history. The Declaration asserted the antiquity of the Scottish people and their monarchy: '...we gather from the deeds and books of the ancients, that among other distinguished nations our own nation, namely of Scots, has been marked by many distinctions. It journeyed from Greater Scythia by the Tyrrenhian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long span of time in Spain among the most savage peoples, but nowhere could it be subjugated by any people, however barbarous. From there it came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea and, having first driven out the Britons and altogether destroyed the Picts, it acquired, with many victories and untold efforts, the places which it now holds ... As the histories of old time bear witness, it has held them free of all servitude ever since. In their kingdom one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock have reigned, the line unbroken by a single foreigner.' The Declaration also had a stark warning for Robert: 'were he to desist from what he has undertaken and be willing to subject us or our kingdom to the king of the English or the English, we would strive to expel him forthwith as our enemy and as a subverter of right, his own and ours, and make someone else our king who is equal to the task of defending us.' In 1324, the Pope recognised Robert as king of an independent Scotland. Two years later, the Franco-Scottish alliance was renewed in the Treaty of Corbeil, by which the Scots were obliged to make war on England should hostilities break out between England and France. In 1327, the English deposed Edward II in favour of his son Edward III and peace was then made between Scotland and England with the treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton, which began with England's total renunciation of all claims to superiority over Scotland. Robert had achieved all he had fought for: ejecting the English, re-establishing peace and gaining recognition as the true king. By that time, King Robert was seriously ill, probably with leprosy, and he died at Cardross, Dunbartonshire on 7 June 1329, aged 54. A few days later, in response to an earlier request by him, the Pope granted permission for kings of Scots to be anointed at their coronation (Scottish kings had previously been enthroned in a mainly secular ceremony at Scone). This was a clear acknowledgement that the Pope recognised Scotland's independence.
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Sources - [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Robert BRUCE, person ID LDQR-3KB. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Robert de BRUCE, person ID L8MB-67G. (Reliability: 3).
- [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 41-5 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Isabel (Matilda) De MAR, person ID 9C4C-QMV. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 17 Dec 2024), entry for Elisabeth De BURGH, person ID LXS8-GFV. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Robert BRUCE, person ID LDQR-3KB. (Reliability: 3).