#King of Scots

[scotianostra]

Robert the Bruce was born in Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire on 11th July 1274.

Well where do we start with this one? I think the majority of us know about Robert and how he led us to victory at Bannockburn so I will put a bit background together of his immediate family.

His mother Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, I think nowadays the term we would use, and it's quite appropriate , is battle-axe. According to what has been written about her she held his father, Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandaleprisoner until he agreed to marry her, it was through his mother that he drew most of his Scottish ancestry. The marriage must have worked for as well as Robert they had 7 more children.

After the Battle of Methven his wee brother Nigel de Brus was captured at Kildrummy Castle and was taken to Berwick to be hanged, drawn and beheaded for high treason, he was protecting Robert's wife, Elizabeth, his daughter Marjorie, his sisters Christina and Mary Bruce, and Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan and helped them escape, although they were later captured by Balliol's army and handed over to Edward I. Nigel was executed for high treason by being hanged, drawn, and quartered in September 1306 at Berwick-upon-Tweed by the English. Two of his other brothers, Alexander and Thomas were also judicially murdered at Carlisle on Februaey 17th 1307 after being captured at Loch Ryan Galloway in 1207, after landing an invasion force consisting of eighteen galleys trying to take land from Dungal MacDouall, who was a supporter of the Comyns,.

Arguably the most famous of his siblings was Edward Bruce, if you have been paying attention you will remember his part in fighting with Robert at Bannockburn, he later went and fought in Ireland and indeed became King for a short time but lost his life in the Battle of Faughart, the, it's said the victor John de Bermingham then took his head to England to be put on display before Edward II.

Robert's sisters, Christina and Mary, as I said earlier were captured after the siege at Kildrummy, along with Isabella MacDuff, now Isabella crowned the Bruce at Scone, it was tradition that the MacDuffs performed the crowning of Scottish monarchs, Isabella arrived the day after Robert had been crowned but the Bruce agreed to second crowning as otherwise some would see the ceremony as irregular, not being performed by a MacDuff.Isabella was imprisoned in cages for four years of Isabella, Edward Longshanks is said to have commanded "Let her be closely confined in an abode of stone and iron made in the shape of a cross, and let her be hung up out of doors in the open air at Berwick, that both in life and after her death, she may be a spectacle and eternal reproach to travellers."

The sisters faired a wee bit better, Isabel Bruce became Queen of Norway as the wife of King Eric II., so escaped the First War of Scottish Independence. Christina and Mary, also captured after Kildrummy, were sent into solitary confinement at a Gilbertine nunnery at Sixhills in Lincolnshire. Mary Bruce was given the same treatment as Isabella MacDuff, but held at Roxburgh Castle.. The sisters sspent eight years as English prisoners, and returned to Scotland in October 1314 as part of the ransom for the Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, who was taken prisoner after the Battle of Bannockburn.

There is not a great deal of detail about the other sisters, Margaret married one Sir William de Cairlyle. Lady Elizabeth Bruce married Sir William Dishington of Ardross, in Fife, and finally Matilda, (Maud) Bruce married Hugh 4th Earl of Ross.

Robert was married twice in his life, first to Isabella of Mar, who died in 1296, , with whom he had a daughter Marjorie, from whom the Stewart dynasty was to trace its lineage. His second wife was Elizabeth de Burgh, with whom he had five children – Margaret, Matilda, David, John (who died in infancy) and Elizabeth. His eldest son succeeded his father as King David II of Scotland.

The photo shows Isabella MacDuff and King Robert I in “The Crowning of Bruce” part of an exhibition at Edinburgh Castle.

[roehenstart]

James I of Scotland (1394-1437).

[bantarleton]

Some pic spam from the Scottish coronation in Edinburgh yesterday. Pretty cool seeing the Household Cavalry on the Royal Mile, a rare sight outside London. Another point of history added to the most storied street in Scotland!

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-2017/02-22

Toby Finn Regbo as Francis Valois

[chicagotimesmagazine]

The Subjugation Of Caledonia: Longshanks And The Scottish Realm

By Chicago Times Magazine – August 2, 2024 The annals of history are replete with tales of conquest and dominion, yet few sagas are as fraught with complexity and consequence as the subjugation of Scotland by Edward I, a monarch often styled the ‘Hammer of the Scots’. To comprehend this epoch, one must delve into the intricate tapestry of Anglo-Scottish relations, a narrative marked by both…

[earlofbath]

Yesterday, during his first vacation at Balmoral Castle since the death of the late Queen, HM King Charles III, accompanied by Her Majesty The Queen, presented the New Ballater Colour to the Royal Guard. The Ballater Colour is a ceremonial Colour which His Majesty The King’s Royal Guard (always an Infantry subunit with strong Scottish connections) carry during Summer Court in Balmoral.

The Royal Family, 2023

[clancarruthers]

KING WILLIAM I - CAPTURED - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

KING WILLIAM I ( CARRUTHERS ANCESTOR) CAPTURED   William had, indeed, seen the men-at-arms approach, but he paid no heed to them, because he thought they were only some of his own followers returning from a foray.     But as the horsemen drew nearer he marked the unfamiliar banners of the knights, and knew when it was too late that the enemy “had already dared what he could not have suspected…

[irvinis]

A Very Royal Scandal.

you know what it's based on

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question : Murder and Disappearance Edition I

Given that Judge Crater, Roanoke, and the Dyatlov Pass Incident are credibly solved, though not 100% provable, I'm leaving them out in favor of things ,ore mysterious. I almost left out Amelia Earhart, but the evidence there is sketchier.

Some people were a little confused. Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury are the Princes in the Tower.

[emotionalsupportstrumpet]

I feel like the closest I can come to understanding dyslexia is listening to David Tennant using an American accent

[scotianostra]

On March 25th in the year 1005 King Kenneth III was killed by his cousin Malcolm at the battle of Monzievaird.

Kenneth was the son of King Duff, and 4th cousin of the man he succeeded, Constantine III. He was the last King of Alba to be appointed under the law of tanistry, a system that involved the extended family in a vote on the succession. This had produced a system in which the crown had alternated between two increasingly distant strands of the House of Alpin, and directly contributed to overwhelming proportion of Kings of Alba who met their end violently.

But it would be hard to describe the end of tanistry as itself a peaceful process.

The Battle of Monzievaird, took place just north of Crieff, close to the location of today’s Glenturret Distillery. Kenneth II’s son, the future Malcolm II defeated King Kenneth III in the battle, killing both Kenneth and his son Giric.

Malcolm later arranged the death of Kenneth III’s grandson, so ensuring (he thought) that secession would in future rest with his own branch of the family and there was no need for tanistry.

There's not a lot more online about this battle, and the site is not marked in any wat=y, as far as I can tell from my digging around.

[alannacouture]

The King & Queen of France and Scotland 🇫🇷 👑 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[andiatas]

Royal Reads: Jan-Mar 2024

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Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Queen by Laura Adkins (Mar. 15, 2024) // Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman (new paperback version published Mar. 7, 2024) // Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin (Mar. 14, 2024)

House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France by Justine Firnhaber-Baker (Mar. 28, 2024) // Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story. by Robert Hardman (Jan. 18, 2024) // Sisters of Richard III: The Plantagenet Daughters of York by Sarah J Hodder (Mar. 15, 2024)

Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman (Mar. 28, 2024) // The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England by Joanne Paul (new paperback version published Jan. 9, 2024)

Young Queens: The Intertwined Lives of Catherine De' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots by Leah Redmond Chang (new paperback version published Feb. 29, 2024) // Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor by Donald J. Robertson (Mar. 26, 2024) // My Mother and I by Ingrid Seward (Feb. 15, 2024)

Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History by Anne Somerset (Mar. 28, 2024) // Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen. by Nicola Tallis (Feb. 29, 2024) // Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships by Kathryn Warner (Mar. 15, 2024)

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-2017/03-05

Mary and Francis

[zingaplanet]

My genteel people I came back here so we can all cry together and sacrifice fruits in the altar of the immortal Sir Andrew Murray

[earlofbath]

The King, The Queen, and The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, watching a flyover by the Red Arrows following the ceremony.

Press Association, 2023