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Robert I Bruce King of Scotland

Male 1274 - 1329  (54 years)


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  • Name Robert I Bruce King of Scotland  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Born 11 Jul 1274  Writtle (Chelmsford), Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1292 
    4th Earl of Carrick 
    Occupation 1304 
    Lord Brus (Bruce) 
    Occupation 1306 
    Escaped and spent the winter in hiding 
    Occupation 25 Mar 1306 
    King of Scotland (inaugurated at Scone) 
    Occupation Jun 1306 
    Surprised and defeated in Perthshire by an advancing English army with Comyn family forces 
    Occupation 10 May 1307 
    Returned to South West Scotland and defeated (with some 600 men) an army of up to 3000 English at the battle of Loudon Hill 
    Occupation 1308 
    Controlled all of northern Scotland except for the castles at Stirling, Dundee and Perth 
    Occupation 1309 
    Controlled all of Scotland north of the River Tay 
    Occupation 1310 
    Captured Linlithgow castle from the English 
    Occupation 1311 
    Captured Dumbarton castle from the English 
    Occupation 1313 
    Captured Perth and Roxburgh from the English 
    Occupation 1314 
    Captured Edinburgh from the English 
    Occupation 24 Jun 1314 
    Defeated the English army of Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn 
    Occupation 1318 
    Completed the reconquest by capturing Berwick-upon-Tweed 
    Occupation 1324 
    Pope John XXII recognised Robert I as king of an independent Scotland 
    Occupation 18 Oct 1327 
    England recognizes his throne (and the Scottish crown in perpetuity) 
    Died 7 Jun 1329  Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Abbey Church, Dunfermline, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4674  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Robert de Brus,   b. Jul 1243, Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1304, Jerusalem, Palestine Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Mother Margaret of Carrick,   b. Abt 1252, Carrick (Strathclyde), South Ayrshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 16 Mar 1330, Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Married 1271  Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2375  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Isabel of Mar,   b. Abt 1278, Kildrummy Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1302, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 23 years) 
    Married Abt 1295  Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Marjorie Bruce of Scotland,   b. Abt 1297, Dundonald, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Mar 1316, Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 19 years)
     2. Maud Bruce of Scotland
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2368  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Elizabeth de Burgh,   b. Abt 1284, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Oct 1327, Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 43 years) 
    Married 1302  Writtle (Chelmsford), Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. David II King of Scotland,   b. 5 Mar 1324, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Feb 1371, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 46 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2369  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Vol. I, p. 310; V. II, p. 360; V. VIII, p. 403 (g) & V. XII/2, p. 177 (c).

    2. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 85.

    3. [S721] The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, William Flower, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, edited by Charles Best Norcliffe, M.A., of Langton, (The Harleian Society, Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, 140 Wardour Street, W., London, 1881), 40.

    4. [S752] Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries, Sir John Froissart and Thomas Johnes, Esq., (Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, London, 1862), Volume 1, pp. 4-5 & 15-16.

    5. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 75:75A-32 & 224:252-30.

    6. [S628] Dictionnaire de la noblesse, seconde et troisième éditions, François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois, (La Veuve Duchesne, libraire, Antoine Boudet, l'auteur, rue Saint-André-des-Arcs, Schlésinger frères, Paris, 1770-1778), Tome 3, p. 279.


  

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