David II (Bruce) King Of SCOTLAND

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David was "the last relict of the honoured race of Bruce." His nephew, Robert, "the first of the royal race of Stuarts," succeeded.

David married Joan Of ENGLAND on 17 Jul 1328 in Berwick-on-Tweed. Joan (daughter of Edward II King Of ENGLAND and Isabella Of FRANCE) was born on 05 Jul 1321 in Tower Of London, London, Middlesex, England; died on 07 Sep 1362 in Hertfield, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Grey Friars, Newgate, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Lord Of Annandale
• Fact: 9 Nov 1292, Succeeded as Earl of Carrick
• Fact 1: 25 Mar 1306, Crowned Robert I, King of Scots, at Scone

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In 1306 Robert Bruce was crowned King of Scone, an event that enraged the dying Edward I of England, who set out to invade Scotland. Bruce fled, and for several years remained in hiding. In 1314, Bruce defeated the English army at Bannockburn. This defeat did not, however, result in recognition of Scotland's independence. The fighting continued until 1328, when Edward III formally recognized Bruce as king of an independent Scotland.

In June 1314 Robert Bruce besieged Stirling Castle, which was held by the English. A huge army, sent by Edward II to relieve the castle, camped at Bannockburn, two miles to the south, and on 24 June the two armies met. Bruce's Scottish army was only one-third the size of the English army, but his soldiers managed to break the English lines. The English gave ground and fled from the field, the defeated Edward II among them.

After Bannockburn, Bruce expected England to leave the country alone. this did not happen, and in 1320 a number of Scottish lords and bishops met in Arbroath and wrote to Pope John XXII insisting that he recognized Scotland's independence. 'For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive we shall never in any wise consent to submit to the rule of the English, for it is bot for glory we fight...but for freedom alone.'

Robert Bruce had considerable inventive powers and was good natured, humane, and courageous. For a time he supported the activities of Edward I in Scotland, partly because his family had received a number of privileges from the English kings, but as a young man he had joined William Wallace's revolt, and the capture and execution of Wallace in 1305 confirmed his opposition to the rule of Edward I.

Bruce was welcomed by his countrymen when he formally claimed the Scottish throne as Robert I in 1306, and his campaign to rid Scotland of the English quickly gathered support, largely as a result of his personal magnetism.

Robert married Isabel of MAR about 1295. Isabel died before 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Donald, 6th Earl of Mar