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unusual facts about Robert I of Scotland



Cameron Bruce

Bruce is often nicknamed "Cameron The Bruce", particularly by commentator Rex Hunt, a reference to the famous Scottish warrior Robert the Bruce.

Hexham

In 1312, Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, demanded and received £2000 from the town and monastery in order for them to be spared a similar fate.

Lockharts of Lee

Sir Simon Locard, 2nd of Lee, is said to have accompanied Sir James Douglas on his expedition to the East with the heart of Robert the Bruce, which relic, according to Froissart, Locard brought home from Spain when Douglas fell in battle against the Moors at the Battle of Teba, and buried in Melrose Abbey.

Prince of Scotland

The Great Stewardship of Scotland was granted to Walter Fitz Alan by David I, and came to the Sovereign through the accession of Robert Stewart, son of Walter Stewart, 6th Great Steward of Scotland, and of Marjorie Bruce, Princess of Scotland, daughter of Robert I, as Robert II in 1371.

Wars of Scottish Independence

It was at this point that Robert Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale (father of the future King Robert the Bruce) was appointed by Edward as the governor of Carlisle Castle.

William de Ros, 2nd Baron de Ros

He was appointed Lord High Admiral and was one of the commissioners with the Archbishop of York, and others, to negotiate peace between the king and Robert de Bruce, who had assumed the title of king of Scotland.


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Christopher Seton

Christopher was present at the coronation of his brother in-law King Robert I of Scotland, at Scone in 1306.

Dungal MacDouall

King Robert I of Scotland's invasion of Galloway in 1307, led by his brother Alexander de Brus and Thomas de Brus, Malcolm McQuillan, Lord of Kintyre, two Irish sub kings and Reginald de Crawford, and composing of eighteen galleys, landed at Loch Ryan.

Siege of Carlisle

Siege of Carlisle (1315), Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle drove off Robert I of Scotland from a siege of Carlisle