Margaret (Fitzalan) STEWART

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Family/Spouse: Neil Of Carrick GALLOWAY. Neil died in 1256. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Margaret MACNIALL
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• Residence: Between 1253 and 1292; Turnberry Castle, ancestral seat of the Earls of Carrick
• Succeeded as 3rd Countess of Carrick, suo jure, her father having no male heirs: 1256, Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland; Upon the death of her father, Marjorie succeeded to become Countess of Carrick; Her cousin Roland became Chief of their clan.

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Marjorie Mac Niall, Countess of Carrick was the oldest daughter and heiress of Niall Mac Dhonnchad, 2nd Earl of Carrick and his wife Margaret Stewart. She was born about 1252 at Turnberry Castle, in Carrick, Scotland. Marjorie had 3 younger sisters, unfortunately, if recorded, their names have been lost to time. Having no sons, Marjorie's father turned leadership of the clan over to his nephew Roland de Carrick on 12 September 1255. Marjorie's father died in 1256 and Marjorie succeeded him as 3rd Countess of Carrick, suo jure, meaning 'in her own right'. Because Marjorie did not gain the title through marriage but held it by right of inheritance herself, any husband would hold the title of Earl only thru his marriage to her.

Marjorie married Adam of Kilconquhar before 1269 (some records state before October 1266) making Adam jure uxoris Earl of Carrick. Marjorie and Adam had one child, a daughter named Martha born about 1269/1270. Martha was their only child as Adam Kilconquhar died in 1270/1271 at Acre, Palestine, while on crusade.

Marjorie and Adam had one child, a daughter:
Isabel of Kilconquhar, married Sir Thomas Randolph of Strathdon, Chamberlain of Scotland and Sheriff of Roxburg; mother of Thomas Randolph, First Earl of Moray.

A companion of Adam of Kilconquhar, named Robert de Bruce, arrived at Turnberry Castle to inform Marjorie of her husbands death. Legend has it that the young Widow was so taken with him that she had him held captive until he agreed to marry her. Other versions say she encountered him while he was hunting on her lands. They married at Turnberry Castle in 1271. Unfortunately, they did not gain permission to marry from King Alexander III as was required. Learning of their marriage, the king seized her castle and all of her estates. They were only restored to her after paying a large fine in atonement.

Robert de Bruce, already Lord of Annandale, then was confirmed as Jure uxoris Earl of Carrick.
Marjorie and Robert had 11 children together (11 that survived to adulthood):

- Isabel Bruce (1272? 1358), married King Eric II of Norway.
- Christina Bruce, married, Sir Christopher Seton, then Sir Andrew Murray.
- Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
- Mary Bruce, married Niall Campbell, then Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser and Cowie.
- Margaret Bruce, married William Carlyle
- Niall or Nigel Bruce, executed 1306 in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England.
- Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland
- Thomas Bruce, executed 1307.
- Alexander Bruce, executed 1307.
- Matilda Bruce, married Hugh, Earl of Ross
- Elizabeth Bruce, married William Dishington

Marjorie mac Niall de Brus, Countess of Carrick died before November 1292. At that time her husband Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, and jure uxoris Earl of Carrick, transferred Carrick to their oldest son, Robert.

Marjorie's children lived in a time of much turmoil in Scotland and were embroiled right in the middle of it.

Marjorie's oldest son, famously, lived to become King Robert I of Scotland.

Her daughter Isabel Bruce, married Eric II of Norway and became Queen of Norway.

Her son Edward became High King of Ireland for a time.

Sadly her other sons were executed during the Scottish Wars for Independence.

All of her daughters married well and most had children.

Marjorie's husband of 21 years survived her and married several more times but had no more children. He died in 1304.

Marjory married Earl Robert de BRUCE, Of Carrick in 1271 in Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland. Robert (son of Lord Robert Of Annandale BRUCE and Isabel CLARE) was born on 11 Jul 1243 in Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; was christened on 6 Nov 1243 in Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland; died on 4 Apr 1304 in Holm Cultram, Cumberland, England; was buried in Abbeytown, Allerdale Borough, Cumbria, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Robert
• Name: Robert DE BRUSEE
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• Occupation: Between 1298 and 1300; Guardian of the Kingdom of Scotland (Regent)
• TitleOfNobility: 1302; After submitting to Edward I in 1302 and returning to "the king's peace", Robert inherited his family's claim to the Scottish throne upon his father's death.
• FORFITED HIS ENGLISH ESTATES AND TITLES: 20 Feb 1306; On 20 February 1306, Robert Bruce forfeited his English estates by order of Edward I King of England.
• CORONATION - CROWNED TWICE: 25 Mar 1306, Old Scone, Perthshire, Scotland; After declaring himself King of Scots, with the support of the majority of Scotland's nobility, Robert I was crowned at Scone by Bishop William de Lamberton on 25 March 1306. However, the Earls of Fife claimed the right to crown the king and had arrived t
• MilitaryService: 19 Jun 1306, Methven, Perthshire, Scotland; After defeat at the Battle of Methven on 19 June 1306, Robert Bruce headed west to the mountains,

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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.

Family/Spouse: Elisabeth De BURGH. Elisabeth was born in 1284; died on 26 Oct 1327. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Isabel (Matilda) De MAR about 1295 in 1st Wife. Isabel (daughter of Earl Donald Of MAR, Sir Knight and Helen Verch LLEWELYN) was born on 11 Jul 1277 in Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; was christened in 1278 in Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died on 12 Dec 1296 in Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was buried on 12 Dec 1296 in Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Gratney 7Th Earl De MAR, Sir. Gratney (son of Earl Donald Of MAR, Sir Knight and Helen Verch LLEWELYN) was born about 1272 in Kildrummy Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died before Sep 1305. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Thomas De ISSAC. Thomas was born about 1306; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Sir Robert Walter Of Aberdalgy OLIPHANT. Robert (son of Sir William Of Aberdalgy OLIPHANT) was born about 1313 in Dunfermline Abbey, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland; died about 1378. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Marjorie BRUCE -
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• ENGLISH CAPTIVE FOR 8 YEARS: Between 1306 and 1314, Watton Abbey, Watton, Norfolk, England; Captured by the English in 1306 at age 9, Marjorie was held captive at Watton Abbey until 1314.
• Cause of Death: Oct 1317, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; DIED AFTER FALLING FROM A HORSE DURING HER SECOND PREGNANCY

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Marjorie Bruce was the oldest child of Robert I, King of Scotland, also known as Robert the Bruce, and his first wife Isabella of Mar. She was born in December of 1296 and her mother died 12 December, 1296 shortly after giving birth. Marjorie was named after her paternal grandmother, Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, who had died 4 years before.

In March of 1306 Scotland was in the midst of the First War of Scottish Independence with England when Marjorie's father Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland. "The Bruce" suffered a defeat at the Battle of Methven and sent Marjorie, her step-mother Elizabeth, and her 2 aunts Mary and Christina North for safety. Unfortunately, they were captured by the English along with Isabella MacDuff. All the men captured were executed including Marjorie's Uncle Niall who was hanged, drawn and quartered and then beheaded. Marjorie's step-mother Elizabeth was deemed a valuable hostage and sent to the Tower of London. Her Aunt Christina, whose husband was just executed, was imprisoned at the convent at Sixhills. Mary Bruce and Isabella MacDuff were imprisoned separately in wooden cages and hung outside the castles of Roxburgh and Berwick, exposed to public view and the elements for 4 long years. A cage was built outside the Tower of London for 9 year old Marjorie but English King Edward I reconsidered and sent her to the convent in Watton instead. Marjorie would remain an English captive until 1314 when she was finally released, exchanged for English prisoners, at the age of 17. Robert the Bruce could not accompany his wife and daughter home himself, he would have been a rich prize for the English, however, he sent Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, to escort them home.

Scotland was free and King Robert the Bruce was at the height of his power. Not wanting to leave Scotland without a clear ruler, as had happened previously after the death of Alexander III and Margaret the Maid of Norway, on April 25 1315 Parliament agreed that if King Robert I, and his brother Edward de Brus, both died without male issue then Marjory de Brus would inherit the throne of Scotland. King Robert I was the most powerful man in Scotland, and now Marjory was the most important woman in Scotland.
Shortly after this Marjorie married the 2nd most powerful man in Scotland, Walter Stewart, High Steward of Scotland. The man who had accompanied her back home from her captivity the year before.

Marjorie and Walter welcomed a son Robert Stuart on March 2 1316. Robert would grow up to become Robert II King of Scotland. Unfortunately, Marjorie would not live to see it. Some historical sources tell us that Marjorie died giving birth to her only son. That she was thrown from a horse while heavily pregnant, and that the baby was delivered safely but Marjorie died. More modern research now indicates that the facts were a little confused. Marjorie did die after a fall from a horse while pregnant, however, it was in October 1317 during her 2nd pregnancy, and both mother and child died. Marjory was buried at Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Like her own mother, Isabella, Marjorie died young, leaving behind a single young motherless child. Robert would not grow up an only child, however, his father married a 2nd time, to Isabel de Graham, and they gave Robert 3 younger siblings.

Marjorie's marriage to Walter, High Steward of Scotland united Clan Stewart and the royal House of Bruce. Her son Robert II was the first Stewart monarch, through him she was the ancestress of a long line of royalty including Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Princess Marjorie, the only daughter of King Robert I of Scotland by his first wife Isabella of Mar. Marjorie died in March 1316 giving birth to their only child:[11]
King Robert II of Scotland (born 1316-died 1390), the first monarch of the House of Stewart who reigned as King of Scotland from 1371 to his death in 1390.

Marjory married Walter STEWART in 1315 in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland. Walter (son of James STEWART and Egidia (Giles) De BURGH) was born in 1296 in Dundonald Castle, Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland; was christened in 1296 in Dundonald Castle, Kyle, AYR, Scotland; died on 9 Apr 1326 in Bathgate Castle, Bathgate, Linlithgow, Scotland; was buried on 19 Apr 1327 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: John Of Knepdal MENTEITH. John was born about 1320; died before 1344. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]