Mathilda Bruce

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Mathilda Bruce (also Matilda or Maud , * around October 1321, † July 20, 1353 in Aberdeen ) was a Scottish princess .

Mathilda was the second daughter of the Scottish King Robert I from his second marriage to Elizabeth de Burgh .

She married the Scottish Squire Thomas Isaac (also de Ysak or MacIsaac , * to 1306) with whom she had two daughters:

  • Joan Isaac ⚭ Ewen MacDougall, chief of Clan MacDougall , 5th Laird of Lorne, 7th Laird of Dunollie;
  • Katherine Isaac (died childless).

She died in Aberdeen in 1353 and was buried in Dunfermline Abbey .

Literature and web links

  • Alison Weir: Britain's Royal Families. The Complete Genealogy. The Bodley Head, London 1999, p. 210.
  • 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 , p. 234.