Margaret Bruce

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Margaret Bruce (* between 1315 and 1322 in Dunfermline ; † between March 30, 1346 and November 9, 1347) was a Scottish princess .

Margaret Bruce was probably the eldest daughter of the Scottish King Robert I from his second marriage to Elizabeth de Burgh . During peace negotiations that were to end the First Scottish War of Independence , the Scots proposed in 1324 that Margaret marry the English heir to the throne, Edward . The negotiations remained unsuccessful, so that the marriage alliance was not pursued any further.

In 1345 she married as his first wife William Sutherland, 5th Earl of Sutherland († 1370). She died giving birth to her only child, John Sutherland, Master of Sutherland († 1361). Like many other members of her family, she was buried at Dunfermline Abbey .

Literature and web links

  • Alison Weir: Britain's Royal Families. The Complete Genealogy. The Bodley Head, London 1999, p. 209.
  • Margaret Bruce on thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , pp. 191-192.
  2. ↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 167.
  3. ↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 254.
  4. ↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 306.
personal data
SURNAME Bruce, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish princess
DATE OF BIRTH between 1315 and 1322
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunfermline
DATE OF DEATH 1346 or 1347