Lady Marjorie Bruce
~ Daughter of Robert the Bruce * A Royal Direct Lineage ~
Lady Marjorie Bruce, Princess of Scotland
Her father, King Robert I (the BRUCE) is my 20thX great-grandfather!
Following is the direct lineage from
the ancestors of Lady Marjorie Bruce, Princess of Scotland
to my grandfather, James Stewart McKECHNIE,
beginning with the
early 1000's A.D.
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(There is some question regarding the ancestry of the BRUCES being originally Viking
before settling in what became Normandy France ~
see the articles written by the Baronage Press as they are quite impartial and very thoroughly researched!)
HLODVER (The Viking), Earl of ORKNEY died in 988.
He married Audna (Edna),
daughter of Kiarva (Carrol) King of Ireland.
SIGURD (the Corpulent), Earl of ORKNEY, died Apr 1014
in the Battle of Clortarf in Dublin Ireland.
He married Donada (ALICE), daughter of Malcolm II mac Kenneth, King of SCOTS.
BRUSI (Brusee) SIGURDSON, Earl of Caithness and Sunderland,
died in 1031 in the Orkney Islands.
He married Ostrida de
GOTHLAND.
ROGNVALD BRUSSESON (died in 1046 A.D.)
was the General in the Army of King of Olaf in Norway.
He married 2nd, Felicia de NORMANDY,
daughter of Robert I (the Magnificent), Duke of Normandy.
(Felicia was the half sister of William the CONQUEROR)
ROBERT de BRUSSE married Emma of BRITTANY , circa 1020 A.D. in Normandy.
(Emma was the daughter of Alan, Count of BRITTANY & Bertha de CHARTRES)
The BRUCE (de BRUIS) (de BRUS) Family of NORMANDY
ROBERT de BRUSSE II came with William the Conqueror from Normandy in 1066.
He married Agnes de SAINT CLARE,
daughter of Waldren de SAINT CLARE & Helena LE BON.
Agnes died in 1080 while Robert died in 1094.
ADAM (Adelm) de BRUS, went to England in 1050
as attendant to
Queen Emma, daughter of
Richard I of Normandy.
He died in 1094.
He married Emma RAMSAY, daughter of Sir William RAMSAY.
ROBERT de BRUS III was born in 1078 in Yorkshire. He died in 1141.
His marriage to Agnes
de PAGNELL of Annandale, a distant cousin, produced 3 sons.
(Agnes was the daughter of Fulk de PAGNELL)
WILLIAM BRUCE, 3rd Baron of Annandale, was the youngest of their 3 sons.
He married Christina.
He died in 1215.
ROBERT (the noble) BRUCE, 4th Baron of Annandale, died in 1245.
He married Isobel de
HUNTINGDON,
the daughter of
David, Earl de HUNTINGDON & Maud (Matilda) de KEVELIOCK of Chester.
Isobel died in 1252.
SIR ROBERT (the competitor) BRUCE, Lord of Annandale was born 1210.
He died on March 31 1295 at Lochmaben Castle.
In
May 1240 he married Isabella de CLARE who was born on Nov 2 1226.
She died in 1264.
Isabella was the daughter of
Sir Gilbert de CLARE, Earl of Gloucester & Lady Isabella MARSHALL.
SIR ROBERT BRUCE, Lord of Annandale was born abt 1242.
He died about 1304 in Palestine.
In 1271, he was married 1st to Marjorie (Marjory) CARRICK, Countess of Carrick.
Marjorie was the daughter of Nigel or Neil, Earl of CARRICK & Margaret STEWART.
(Marjorie's mother Margaret STEWART,
was the daughter of
Walter Fitz ALAN, High Stewart of Scotland & Beatrix de ANGUS)
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NIGEL was the great grandson of
FERGUS, Lord of Galloway &
Princess ELIZABETH of England,
grand-daughter of WILLIAM the Conqueror &
MATILDA of Flanders.
Through Fergus' mother, EDITH of Northumberland,
Nigel was descended from the famous
GODIVA, Lady of Mercia & LEOFRIC III, Earl of Mercia)
(Nigel was Regent of Scotland and Guardian of Alexander III.
([Scots Peerage, II:422-23])
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ROBERT the BRUCE, Earl of Carrick, Lord Brus, King ROBERT I of Scotland.
The Bruce was born in July 1274 in Writtle Chelmsford Essex England.
He died on Jun 7, 1329 at Cardoss Castle in Dunbarton Scotland.
He married, first, in 1296 to Isabel de MAR , who
died in 1297.
Isabel de MAR was the daughter of
Lord DONALD Mac Gylocher, 6th Earl of MAR and
HELEN Verch Llewellyn, Princess of North WALES.
Isabel was a direct descendant of ALPIN, King of Scotland.
HENRY II of England & ELEANOR of Aquitaine were her great-grandparents.
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LADY MARJORIE BRUCE, Princess of Scotland.
was the only child of
this 1st marriage
of King ROBERT I (the Bruce) & Isabel de MAR.
She was born
probably abt December 1296.
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"At the end of June 1306 the 9-year-old princess, Marjorie,
together with her stepmother and
other women-folk of The Bruce's family,
were sent for safety to Kildrummy
Castle (Aberdeenshire),
escorted by Nigel Bruce and the Earl of Atholl.
It was
intended that they would then take refuge in Orkney until times were easier,
but the English army was already at Aberdeen
and the royal ladies moved on
to Tain, north of Inverness, still hoping for a boat.
Here they were captured in
the sanctuary of St. Duthac
and sent to Edward of England, then at Lanercost
Priory in Cumberland.
They were separated from each other and Marjorie was
sent to a convent,
where she remained until her release 8 years later.
She was not yet 18 at the time of the battle of Bannockburn, 24 June
1314.
One of the heroes of that great victory over the English was her second
cousin once removed, Walter Stewart, 6th Lord High Steward, some four
years her senior, whom she married in the following year.
It was from that
Stewart cousinship
that the typically Stewart name of Marjorie first came into
the family of Bruce,
Robert the Bruce's mother and maternal grandmother both
bearing that name.
This last-named Marjorie had been the second of the three
daughters of Walter, 3rd High Steward.
Part of the wedding dowry which Marjorie Bruce brought to her husband was
the castle and Barony of Bathgate in Midlothian, which it was intended would
become their private family residence; but this was not to be.
Whether through rashness, fearlessness or ignorance of the possible
consequences,
Princess Marjorie went out riding near Paisley while heavily
pregnant.
Her horse, taking fright at something, reared up,
and Marjorie was
thrown violently to the ground
and immediately went into premature labour.
Her only child, the future Robert II,
was delivered at the roadside by
Caesarean section
(the first authentic record of such an operation being
performed
since the birth of the eponymous Julius Caesar).
The beautiful
Marjorie died within a few hours,
aged only about 19 years and 3 months, on Mar 2 1316.
Her last words are reported to have been
'He's a laddie; I ken
he's a laddie; he will be king'.
Her improbable dying prophecy eventually came
true,
but not for another fifty-five years."
(Quote from The Stewart Society)
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She is buried in Paisley Abbey Renfrew
and there is a memorial to her as well as one to the other kings and Steward(t)s buried there.
From Lady Marjorie and her husband Walter STEWART
begin the Royal House of Stewart kings.
King ROBERT II was born Mar 2 1316 in Paisley Renfrew Scotland.
He died May 1390 at Dundonald Castle in Ayrshire.
He succeeded to the throne of Scotland upon the death of his uncle, King David.
He married Elizabeth MURE of Rowallan.
(She was the daughter of Sir Adam MURE & Joan CUNNINGHAM)
One of their several sons was ~
ALEXANDER, 1st EARL of BUCHAN, known as the Wolf of Badenoch.
He was born abt 1342.
He died Jul 24 1394 and is buried in Dunkeld Cathedral.
Lochindorb Castle, stronghold of the Wolf of Badenoch
Alexander had an association with Margaret de ATHEYN(E)
which produced 6 sons and 1 daughter.
Sir JAMES STEWART, 5th child of ALEXANDER , Earl of Buchan,
was ancestor of the Stewarts of ATHOLL, Balnakeily
Bonskeid, Cammoch, Castle Stewart, Chesfield, Clunie, Derculich,
Drumchary, Drumchuine, Dundee, DUNTANLICH, Easter Kinnaird,
Edradynate, Fincastle, Forthergill, Foss, GARTH, Grainnich, Inchgarth,
Innersianie, Killiechassie, Kinnakile, Kynachin, Ladywall, Polcack,
Rotmell, St. Fort, Shiergiass, Tillinyrish, Tulloch, Urrard, Wester Cluny.
My paternal STEWART line is descended from the Stewarts of Duntanlich.
James Stewart McKECHNIE ~ my grandfather
* LINKS *
John Gorm Stewart ~ Great Grandson of Robert the Bruce
Neil Gointe Stewart ~ Laird of Garth Castle
Blair Atholl ~ Home of my Highland Scottish Stewarts
Stewarts of Duntanlich ~ A Royal Connection of the 'Illegitimate Ilk'
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