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The Chronicle of Abbot Ralph of Coggeshall describes the reigns of Kings Henry II, Richard I, John and Henry III, providing a wealth of information about their lives and the events of the time. Ralph's work is detailed, comprehensive and objective. We have augmented Ralph's text with extracts from other contemporary chroniclers to enrich the reader's experience. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Paternal Family Tree: Bruce of Annandale
Maternal Family Tree: Ettiennette Countess Burgundy
1306 Robert "The Bruce" murders John "Red" Comyn
1306 Coronation of Robert the Bruce
1306 Imprisonment and Execution of Scottish Prisoners
1307 Battle of Loch Ryan and the Execution of the Bruce Brothers
In 1296 Marjorie Bruce was born to [her father] King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 21) and [her mother] Isabella Mar (age 43). She a great x 2 granddaughter of King John of England.
In 1296 [her father] King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 21) and [her mother] Isabella Mar (age 43) were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years; she, unusually, being older than him. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Donald Mar 7th Earl of Mar and [her grandmother] Elen ferch Llewellyn Aberffraw Countess Huntingdon and Mar. He the son of [her grandfather] Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 52) and [her grandmother] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. She a great granddaughter of King John of England.
On 12th December 1296 [her mother] Isabella Mar (age 43) died. She was buried at Paisley Abbey.
In 1302 [her father] King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 27) and [her step-mother] Elizabeth Burgh Queen Consort Scotland (age 18) were married. She the daughter of Richard "Red Earl" Burgh 2nd Earl of Ulster (age 43) and Margaret Burgh Countess Ulster. He the son of [her grandfather] Robert Bruce Earl Carrick (age 58) and [her grandmother] Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick. They were fifth cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
The Bruce 1306. Lines 39-58:
| The Queyn, and als dame Marjory, | The [her step-mother] Queen (age 21)1, and also Lady Marjory (age 9), |
| Hyr dochtyr that syne worthily | Her daughter who later worthily |
| Wes coupillyt in-to Goddis band | Was joined into God's bond |
| With Walter, Stewart off Scotland; | With [her future husband] Walter (age 9), Stewart of Scotland; |
| That wald on na wys langar ly | Who would not in any way longer stay |
| In the castell off Kyldromy, | In the castle of Kildrummy, |
| To byd a sege, ar ridin raith | To await a siege, but riding quickly |
| With knychtis and with squyeris bath, | With knights and with squires both, |
| Throw Ros, rycht to the gyrth off Tayne. | Through Ross, right to the girth of Tayne2. |
| Bot that travaill thai maid in vayne; | But their efforts were in vain; |
| For thai off Ros, that wald nocht ber | For the men of Ross3, who would not bear |
| For thaim na blayme, na yheit danger, | Any blame or even danger for them, |
| Owt off the gyrth thame all has tayne; | Out of the girth, they all have been taken; |
| And syne has send thaim evirilkane | And then they have sent them all |
| Rycht in-till Ingland, to the King, | Right into England, to the King, |
| That gert draw all the men, and hing; | Who ordered all the men to be drawn and hanged; |
| And put the ladyis in presoune, | And put the ladies in prison4, |
| Sum in-till castell, sum in dongeoun. | Some in a castle, some in a dungeon. |
| It wes gret pite for till heir | It was a great pity to hear |
| Folk till be troublyt on this maneir. | People being troubled in this manner. |
Note 1. dame Marjory. Bruce's daughter by his first wife, [her mother] Isabel, daughter of [her grandfather] Donald Earl of Mar. She afterwards married Walter, the High Steward (see Bk. XIII. 689).
Note 2. the gyrth of Tayne. The enclosure or "sanctuary" attached to the chapel of St. Duthac, at Tain, Ross-shire, a favourite place of pilgrimage with the Scottish kings, especially James IV. There was, however, no privilege of sanctuary for treason. William Earl of Ross was in the English interest, and on May 20, 1308, is the recipient of thanks from Edward II. "for faithful service to his father and himself" (Bain, iii., No. 43). Hemingburgh says "the new Queen" was taken in Kildrummy (ii. 249); Gray that Cristina Bruce was captured there, and the Queen and Nigel Bruce in Dunaverty (Scala., p. 131); Trivet agrees with the second statement, but obviously confuses (p. 410); according to Fordun the Queen was taken at Tain, and many ladies at "Kyndrumy" (Gesta Ann., cxx.).
Note 3. thai of Ros. Fordun says the Queen was seized at St. Duthac's by the Earl of Ross (Gesta Ann., cxx.).
Note 4. put the ladyis in presoune. On November 7, 1306, there are "further orders for the custody of the Countesses of Carrick (the Queen) and Buchan, Marie, and Christine, the sisters, and Margerie the daughter, of Robert de Bruce ... three of the ladies to be in 'kages.'" (Bain, ii., No. 1851). The Countess of Buchan, who had crowned Bruce, was to be placed in a cage of wooden bars and lattice in one of the turrets of Berwick Castle (Palgrave, p. 358; Scala., p. 131); Marie Bruce in a "kage" in Roxburgh (Palgrave, 359); Marjory in a "kage" in the Tower of London (359); [her aunt] Cristina (age 32) in ward in England (Palgrave, 359). The Queen was to be in custody at "Brustewik" (Palgrave p. 357); was removed thence by an order of June 22, 1308 (Bain, iii., No. 48). Marjory was in ward at Wattone in March, 1307 (Bain, ii., 1910). By 1311-1312 Maria de Brus is a prisoner in Newcastle (Bain, iii., 227, 340).
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On 10th February 1306 John Comyn 3rd Lord Baddenoch (age 37) was murdered by [her father] Robert the Bruce (age 31), future King of Scotland, before the High Altar of the Greyfriars Monastery [Map]. Robert Comyn, John's uncle, was killed by Christopher Seton (age 28). Christopher's brother John Seton (age 28) was also present.
Murder, in a church, in front of the altar, regarded as a terrible crime. The act gave King Edward I of England (age 66) cause to invade Scotland. Robert the Bruce was ex-communicated by the Pope for his actions.
King Edward I of England charged Bishop David de Moravia as being complicit in the murder.
On 25th March 1306, [her father] King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 31) was crowned King Scotland at Scone Abbey [Map] by Bishop of St Andrews and Bishop Robert Wishart. [her step-mother] Elizabeth Burgh Queen Consort Scotland (age 22) was crowned Queen Consort Scotland. Christopher Seton (age 28) and Bishop David de Moravia were present. He was wearing royal robes and vestments previously hidden from the English by Bishop Robert Wishart.
The following day, 28th March 1306, King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland was crowned by Isabella Countess Buchan whose family held the hereditary right to place the crown on the King's head; she had arrived too late for the coronation the day before. The right was held by her brother Duncan Fife 4th Earl Fife (age 18) who was under-age and held by the English so she assumed the right in his place.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. [November 1306] The wife [[her aunt] Christina Bruce (age 33)] of Christopher , the king placed in the monastery of Sixhills [Map] in Lindsey, and the daughter [Marjorie Bruce (age 10)] of the new king he placed in the monastery of Watton [Map]. The lord king gave to Lord Edmund de Mauley (age 25) the manor of Seaton in Whitby Strand, which had belonged to Christopher, and other lands he had held in Northumberland the king gave to Lord William le Latimer (age 30). The lands of the new king the lord king divided among his magnates in this way: he gave the Valley of Annandale to the Earl of Hereford, who had married the daughter of the king of England; Ayr and Ayrshire he gave to Lord Robert de Clifford (saving, however, the right of the church of Durham); Tothenham, Tothenhamschire, and the manor of Wrothell in the southern parts he gave to other magnates. The earldom of Carrick, which the new king had held by maternal inheritance, the king of England gave to Lord Henry de Percy; and the earldom of Atholl he gave to the Earl of Gloucester (age 36), who had married the king's daughter after the death of Gilbert de Clare, the former earl of Gloucester. Thus he bore the title of earl by right of his wife, not by inheritance, for he had been a mere and unremarkable knight when he married her, by the name of Ralph Monthermer.
Uxorem vero Christofori posuit rex in monasterio de Thyxsel in Lindesay, et filiam novi regis posuit in monasterio de Watton. Deditque dominus rex domino Eadmundo de Malo-lacu manerium de Seton in Wytebystrand, quod erat Christofori, et alias suas terras quas habuit in Northumberland dedit rex domino Willelmo le Latymer. Terras vero novi regis dispersit dominus rex inter magnates suos hoc modo; dedit enim Vallem Anandiæ comiti de Herford, qui filiam regis Angliæ duxerat in uxorem; Hert vero et Herternes dedit domino Roberto de Clifforde, salvo tamen jure ecclesiæ Dunolmensis; Thotenham et Thotenhamschyre et manerium de Wrothell in partibus australibus dedit aliis magnatibus suis; comitatum vero de Karrik, quem ex hæreditate materna habuerat ipse novus rex, dedit rex Angliæ domino Henrico de Percy; comitatum autem de Asechel dedit rex comiti Gloucestriæ, qui filiam regis post mortem Gilberti de Clare quondam comitis Gloucestriæ, duxerat; sicque nomen comitis habebat ab uxore, non ab hæreditate, fuerat enim miles simplex et segnis quando eam duxerat, nomine Radulphus Monhermer.
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On 9th February 1307 the Battle of Loch Ryan was a victory of local forces, led by Dungal MacDowall, supporter of King Edward I, over a force consisting of 1000 men and eighteen galleys led by [her uncle] Thomas Bruce (age 23) and [her uncle] Alexander Bruce (age 22), brothers of [her father] King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 32), supported by Malcolm McQuillan, Lord of Kintyre, and Sir Reginald Crawford. Only two galleys escaped. Malcolm McQuillan was captured an summarily executed.
Thomas Bruce, Alexander Bruce and Reginald Crawford were hanged (possibly hanged, drawn and quartered) at Carlisle, Cumberland [Map].
Calendar Scottish Documents Volume 2. 15th March 1307. 1910. The K. commands the sheriff of York, by view of the Prior of Wattone, to allow Margery (age 11) daughter of Robert de Brus, staying in Wattone by the K.'s order, od. a day for her expenses, from the morrow of All Souls last year, when she came there; and a mark yearly for her dress. Carlisle, at the petition of the Council.
Similar to the sheriff of Lincoln, at sight of the Prior of Sixle, for [her aunt] Cristina (age 34) widow of Cristopher de Seton, staying in the house of Sixle. Carlisle.
Similar to the sheriff of Bedford at sight of the Prior of Chikesande, for Elizabeth widow of Richard Si ward junior, in the house of Chikesand, from the Nativity of St John Baptist last year. Carlisle. [Patent, 35 Edw. I. on. 29.]
On 16th July 1309 James Stewart 5th High Steward died. His son [her future husband] Walter (age 13) succeeded 6th High Steward of Scotland.
On 24th June 1314 the Scottish army of [her father] King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 39) including, James "Black" Douglas (age 28), heavily defeated the English army led by King Edward II of England (age 30) at the Battle of Bannockburn.
Gilbert de Clare 8th Earl Gloucester 7th Earl Hertford (age 23) was killed. Earl Gloucester, Earl Hertford extinct.
John Comyn 4th Lord Baddenoch (age 20), Robert Felton 1st Baron Felton (age 44) and William Vesci were killed.
William Marshal 1st Baron Marshal (age 36) was killed. His son John (age 22) succeeded 2nd Baron Marshal.
Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 40) was killed. His son Roger (age 14) succeeded 2nd Baron de Clifford.
John Lovell 2nd Baron Lovel (age 25) was killed. His son John succeeded 3rd Baron Lovel of Titchmarsh.
Henry Bohun was killed by King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland. He was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucestershire [Map].
Walter Fauconberg 2nd Baron Fauconberg (age 50) possilby died although his death is also reported as being on 31 Dec 1318.
Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere (age 38), Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 38), Goronwy ap Tudur Hen Tudor, Henry Beaumont Earl Buchan (age 35), Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 39) and Robert Umfraville 8th Earl Angus (age 37) fought.
Pain Tiptoft 1st Baron Tibetot (age 34) was killed. His son John succeeded 2nd Baron Tibetot.
John Montfort 2nd Baron Montfort (age 23) was killed. Peter Montfort 3rd Baron Montfort (age 23) succeeded 3rd Baron Montfort.
Thomas Grey (age 34) undertook a suicidal charge that contributed to the English defeat and subsequently blemished his career.
William Latimer 2nd Baron Latimer of Corby (age 38) was captured.
Michael Poynings (age 44) was killed.
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In 1315 Walter Stewart 6th High Steward (age 19) and Marjorie Bruce (age 19) were married. She the daughter of King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland (age 40) and Isabella Mar. They were second cousin once removed. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King John of England.
After 1316 [her husband] Walter Stewart 6th High Steward (age 20) and Isabel Graham of Abercorn (age 18) were married.
On 2nd March 1316 [her son] King Robert II of Scotland was born to [her husband] Walter Stewart 6th High Steward (age 20) and Marjorie Bruce (age 20) at Paisley Abbey. His mother Marjorie Bruce died in childbirth. He a great x 3 grandson of King John of England. He married (1) 1336 Elizabeth Mure Queen Consort Scotland and had issue (2) 1356 Euphemia Ross Queen Consort Scotland, daughter of Hugh 4th Earl Ross and Margaret Graham Countess Ross, and had issue.
On 9th April 1327 [her former husband] Walter Stewart 6th High Steward (age 31) died.
On 22nd February 1371 [her half-brother] King David II of Scotland (age 46) died without issue at Edinburgh Castle [Map]. He was buried at Holyrood Abbey [Map]. His nephew [her son] Robert (age 54) succeeded II King Scotland. He, David, was the last of the male line of the House of Bruce. Robert, the first of the House of Stewart, being the son of his sister Marjorie Bruce who had married [her former husband] Walter Stewart 6th High Steward.
Kings Wessex: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 3 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 9 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 4 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 2 Grand Daughter of King John of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 7 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bruce 2nd Lord Annandale
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Bruce 3rd Lord Annandale
Great x 4 Grandmother: Euphemia Crosebi Lady Annandale
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Bruce 4th Lord Annandale
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christina Unknown Lady Annandale
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Bruce 5th Lord Annandale 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Dunkeld 3rd Earl Huntingdon 1st Earl of Northumbria
Great x 3 Grandfather: David Dunkeld 8th Earl Huntingdon
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ada Warenne Countess Huntingdon and Northumbria
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel "the Scot" Dunkeld Lady Annandale 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh de Kevelioc Gernon 5th Earl Chester Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Matilda Gernon Countess Huntingdon 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Bertrade Montfort Countess Chester
GrandFather: Robert Bruce Earl Carrick 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Clare 2nd Earl Hertford
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Clare 3rd Earl Hertford
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud St Hilary Countess Hertford
Great x 2 Grandfather: Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fitzrobert 2nd Earl Gloucester Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Amice Fitzrobert Countess Hertford Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Hawise Beaumont Countess Gloucester
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Clare Lady Annandale 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fitzgilbert
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sybil of Salisbury
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard "Strongbow" Clare 2nd Earl Pembroke
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Aoife ni Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham
Father: King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Niall Carrick 2nd Earl Carrick
GrandMother: Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Fitzalan 1st High Steward
Great x 3 Grandfather: Alan Fitzwalter 2nd High Steward
Great x 2 Grandfather: Walter Stewart 3rd High Steward
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Stewart Countess Carrick
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gille Críst Angus 4th Earl Angus
Great x 2 Grandmother: Bethóc Angus
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Dunkeld 3rd Earl Huntingdon 1st Earl of Northumbria
Great x 3 Grandmother: Marjorie Dunkeld Countess Angus
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ada Warenne Countess Huntingdon and Northumbria
Marjorie Bruce 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Donald Mar 6th Earl of Mar
GrandFather: Donald Mar 7th Earl of Mar
Mother: Isabella Mar Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd
Great x 3 Grandfather: Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Great x 4 Grandmother: Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd
Great x 2 Grandfather: Iorwerth "Drwyndwn aka Flat Nosed" Aberffraw
Great x 4 Grandfather: Llywarch ap Trahaearn Lord of Cydewain
Great x 3 Grandmother: Gwladus Unknown Queen Consort Gwynedd
Great x 1 Grandfather: Llewellyn "The Great" Aberffraw
Great x 4 Grandfather: Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Great x 3 Grandfather: Madog ap Maredudd Mathrafal Prince Powys
Great x 2 Grandmother: Marared ferch Madog Mathrafal
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd
Great x 3 Grandmother: Susanna Aberffraw
Great x 4 Grandmother: Angharad Queen Consort Gwynedd
GrandMother: Elen ferch Llewellyn Aberffraw Countess Huntingdon and Mar Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy
Great x 3 Grandfather: King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Empress Matilda Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: King John of England Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William "Saint" Poitiers X Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen Consort Franks and England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Aenor Chatellerault Duchess Aquitaine
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Plantagenet Daughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hamelin Warenne Earl of Surrey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mistress Unknown
Great x 2 Grandmother: Adela Plantagenet
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Warenne 3rd Earl of Surrey
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabella Warenne Countess Boulogne 4th Countess of Surrey
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adela Montgomery Countess of Salisbury and Surrey