Maud Bruce

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Maud Bruce (also Matilda ) († before November 24, 1329) was a Scottish noblewoman.

origin

Maud Bruce came from the Scottish Bruce family . She was a younger daughter of Robert de Brus, Earl of Carrick and his wife Marjorie, Countess of Carrick .

Fate during the Scottish War of Independence

During the Scottish War of Independence , her eldest brother Robert Bruce rebelled against the supremacy of the English King Edward I and rose to be King of the Scots in March 1306. Maud may have attended her brother's coronation in Scone in March 1306 with her siblings. However, Robert Bruce was defeated by the English at the Battle of Methven in June 1306 . He fled west together with Maud and most of the other siblings, with his wife Elizabeth , his daughter Marjorie , with the Countess of Buchan and with a few hundred faithful. The small force was defeated in July or August 1306 in the battle near Dalry by John Macdougall, who was fighting on the English side . Bruce and his family were able to escape again, but now the group has split up. While Robert Bruce tried with a few faithful to flee further to western Scotland, the women should try to escape to northern Scotland together with Maud's brother Neil Bruce , with the Earl of Atholl , David Lindsay and Robert Boyd . They reached Kildrummy Castle , where they learned that an English army was approaching. Thereupon Atholl fled further north with the women. Maybe they wanted to reach the Orkneys , which were under Norwegian rule. They would have been safe there, because Isabella Bruce , a sister of Maud and Robert Bruce, was the Norwegian Queen. However, when the group reached Tain , they were captured by the Earl of Ross . Edward I had Neil Bruce and the Earl of Atholl executed and the women severely punished. Maud was presumably imprisoned in an English monastery. Her brother's efforts to exchange Maud and the other women for English prisoners were unsuccessful for a long time. Probably only after the English defeat in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, she was exchanged together with her sister-in-law Elizabeth and her niece Marjorie for the Earl of Hereford , who had been captured in the battle . She was probably released before mid-February, at the latest before March 23, 1315.

Marriage and offspring

After her release, her brother married her in 1315 or 1316 to Hugh of Ross , the eldest son of the man who had captured her in 1306. Hugh of Ross was particularly favored by Robert Bruce, and the marriage was intended to help reconcile the families.

She had several children with her husband:

The year Maud died is unknown. She must have died before November 24, 1329 when her husband received papal dispensation for his second marriage. She was buried, like other members of her family, at Dunfermline Abbey .

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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. 98.
  2. ↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 103.
  3. ↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 126.
  4. ↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 158.
  5. ↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 161.
  6. ^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 387.
  7. ↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 109.
  8. ↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 249.
  9. ↑ 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, Maud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruce, Matilda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH before November 24, 1329