Brief History of Marjorie Bruce

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but today we're headed in the 13th

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century to meet a young girl with a

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tragic story who lived during the

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Scottish hordes of independence Margery

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Bruce

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marjory Bruce was the eldest daughter of

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Robert the Bruce the King of Scots by

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his first wife a noblewoman Isabella of

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Mothe Amara was born in 1296

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Marjorie's parents were said to have

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been very much in love but sadly her

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mother passed away quickly after

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Marjorie was born dying at the young age

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of 19 it seems likely that Marjorie's

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care was handed to one of her father's

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sisters either Muriel or Christina

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at least until Robert the Bruce

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remarried in 1302 then he married a

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young 13 year old courtier named

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Elizabeth debur

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the daughter of one of King Edward the

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first most prominent Anglo Irish

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supporters on the 27th of March Robert

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the Bruce was crowned King of Scots by

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Isabella Macduff at Scone and Marjorie

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aged nine became princess of Scotland

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however three months after the

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coronation in June

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her father was defeated at the Battle of

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Methven and he sent his female relatives

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and Ward north to safety

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but by the end of June after avoiding

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capture twice they were caught by the

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Earl of Rosse who handed them over to

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the English as punishment King Edward

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the first sent his hostages to different

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places in England Marjorie and her aunt

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Christina were sent to separate convent

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Queen Elizabeth was placed under house

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arrest and her aunt Marion Macduff one

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of her father's supporters in the woman

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that had crowned him King and scone were

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imprisoned in cages for years exposed to

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public viewers spectacles Mary's cage

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was at Roxbury Castle and Isabel's was

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at Berwick castle

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King Edward also had a cage built for

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Marjorie at the Tower of London but

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reconsidered

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when sent young Marjorie to a convent in

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whatten instead

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Edward the first died on July 7 1307 and

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was succeeded by his son Edward the

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second who continued to hold Marjorie as

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a prisoner in the convent for about

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seven more years and 1314 Marjorie was

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finally released possibly in exchange

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for English Nobles that had been

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captured at the Scottish victory of the

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Battle of Bannockburn Marjorie was

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escorted back to Scotland under the

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escort of Walter Stewart who king Edward

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had awarded the adolescent princess's

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hand in marriage to

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two years after her marriage on March

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2nd 13 16 a heavily pregnant Marjorie

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was riding when her horse was startled

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and it threw her to the ground

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Marjorie was seriously injured and she

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went into premature labor

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being delivered of a son Robert by

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cesarean section at Paisley Abbey but

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sadly she lived only a few more hours

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dying at 19 years old the same as her

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mother she was buried at Paisley Abbey

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and to this day the knock near where

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Marjorie reputedly fell is still marked

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despite not surviving to see her son

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grow Robert eventually succeeded his

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childless uncle david ii of scotland as

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king robert ii in 1371 and Marjorie's

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descendants include the House of Stuart

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and all their successors on the throne

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of Scotland England and the United

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