A patrilineal descendant of Robert the Bruce, he was the elder son of Archibald Campbell Carne Ross of Penzance and Brecon (through whom he descended also from Joseph Carne, of the Batten, Carne and Carne bank), and Millicent Strode Cobham.
The town famously gave its name to the ancestors of Robert the Bruce, Bruce being the Anglicisation of "Brieux".
An exception is Nigel Tranter's novel The Price of the King's Peace, the third part of his Robert the Bruce trilogy, which although a fictionalized account does describe the campaign at some length.
An early settler, John M. Hoffman, named this community for his stepfather, George Bruce, who claimed direct descendance from Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.
Bruce is often nicknamed "Cameron The Bruce", particularly by commentator Rex Hunt, a reference to the famous Scottish warrior Robert the Bruce.
As evidenced by her coat of arms, Roads is an indeterminate cadet of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland.
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.
Examples include the song "Take My Heart" about the death of Robert the Bruce, and the song cycle about the Luddite movement that he contributed to the 2006 album Bloody Men.
His father, John Bruce, was native to England and was believed to be a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce.
He also once said he was a modern Robert the Bruce - fighting for his honour in the street and the business world.
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Bruce is of Scottish descent and a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce, and is related to Andrew Bruce, the 11th Earl of Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine, who is the current Earl.
Nine Flemings are known to have signed the Ragman Roll of 1296, and therefore have pledged alliance to Edward I, although Sir Robert Fleming was among the first supporters of Robert the Bruce.
A lesser folk legend holds that Robert the Bruce gave a portion of the stone to Cormac McCarthy, king of Munster, in gratitude for Irish support at the Battle of Bannockburn (1314).
Sir John de Soulis II joined Robert the Bruce, and was rewarded with a grant of the baronies of Kirkandrews and Torthorwald, and the lands of Brettalach, Dumfriesshire.
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.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott (1822) attest that Robert the Bruce hid in the forests about this hill after he had killed one of his rivals, John "the Red" Comyn.
Robert the Bruce in 1323 used Bisset's same legend connecting Scota to the stone in attempt to get the stone back to Scotland's Scone Abbey.
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.