How Robert the Bruce 's Parents Met?

It's July 7th, the last Robert the Bruce was born on this day in Scottish history. It's a birthday party, but a birthday party with some questions. He said he was born in Scotland. I think that the Commission has a very good reason to be concerned about this. Was he the rightful king, was his birth even legitimate? Hi, I'm Bruce Fummey, if you're interested in the people, events and places in Scottish history, then subscribe to Scotland History Tours and click the bell symbol to be In the meantime, let me tell you a story. The Irish Sea behind the castle is a beautiful sight. You can see Ailsa Craig on a clear day you can even taste the taste of the sea. Now in the time before roads, and with direct access from your castle The Commission has already made a number of proposals to improve the quality of the water supply. You see, the castle belonged to his mother. You're up to speed on modern day biology, but the story of the birth of Robert the Bruce is really I've said elsewhere in these videos that the first thing that I want to do is to apologize. Now the Encyclopedia Britannica online gave a figure of eight, but I'm going to settle on the excellent work of Fiona Watson and say In fact there were seven. please accept my apologies for my past sins. Robert the Bruce could be absolved for murdering a guy in a church, I hope you'll forgive me. Now this video will talk about three of those Robert the Bruces, And I'm going to call our yet-to-be-born hero King Robert the Bruce. I'm Bruce, by the way. Robert the Bruce's conception is a rather interesting tale apparently. of France called for a crusade, the young and naturally adventurous Robert the Bruce the Sixth, Daddy Robert the Bruce to you and me, decided that he would go on the crusade alongside Prince Edward, The story actually reminds me of the story of the King of England, the evil bastard who would become Edward the First. I say home, what I actually mean is, "I'm going home". I went to my friend's house, and I knew he'd be up late, so I took a bottle of malt. He's an Aussie living in Scotland, and he's a good guy. And he had just discovered that the Scots-Australian rock band ACDC was going to be on tour. We weren't going to be coming to Scotland, but he and his wife had decided to get tickets to go and see Anyway, we had a drink, I'll be honest, we had a few, and when we woke up in the This morning, he and his wife weren't going to see ACDC in Manchester, but he and I had bought a gig and The point is that somehow, one way or another Another, the adventurous young Daddy Bruce was sidelined. Everybody wanted to get to the ACDC Jerusalem gig, so you have to think About Daddy Robert the Bruce, he's pretty downhearted, languishing at home, while his old dad, who's in He's in his 50s, he's off on a crusade, but while Grandpa Bruce is in Acre, Daddy Bruce meets a woman. I say he meets a woman, let me tell you the story. Now word's been sent back to Scotland, and Daddy Bruce is given the task of breaking the Her name is Marjorie Countess of Carrick, she has imbued her husband, Adam of Carrick, with the gift of a new life. Kilconker, with the title Earl of Carrick, by virtue of the fact that her father was the Earl of Carrick. Now it was her being left with the title, and her father not having surviving sons, that created the She's also descended from an O'Neill King of Tyrone. Anyway, let me tell you what happened by reading from a bit from Colin McNamee's book, taken from Now Robert, Daddy Bruce, has arrived here at Turnberry Castle When greetings and kisses had been given on each side, as is the want of courtiers, she brought him to stay and hunt and walk around, and seeing that he was rather unwilling To do so, she by force, so to speak, with her own hand, made him pull up and brought the knight, Although very reluctant, with her to the castle of Turnberry here. For the space of 15 days or more, he secretly took the Countess as his wife. Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me into marrying you? This mature woman kidnapped young Daddy Bruce for a Two weeks of fooling around in her castle here, and he liked it. They probably did it, oh disgusting, but romantic, huh? A slightly creepy story, but are we to believe that this poor little defenseless medieval knight was kidnapped by this rich, landed, newly widowed woman with royal blood, entitled to the elder of Grandpa Bruce is in the Middle East, Adamical Conquer dies. He's married to Marjorie, Countess of Carrick. The fastest homing pigeon he can find, before Dick Dastardly and Mutley can get airborne. The message reaches young Daddy Bruce here in Scotland. ASAP, strike a marriage deal, and get it sewn up before some other vulture picks at the carcass. So Daddy Bruce didn't get to go on the crusade, But he's been on manoeuvres at Turnberry here, and bagged himself, a earldom and a widow, See, not only has Widow Marjorie not told her friends about her secret, And more importantly, she hasn't told King Alexander the First of Scotland. The thing is, the first rank and nobility are supposed to marry only with the King's permission. Two powerful members of the nobility marry, and the combined family becomes more powerful than the Countess Marjorie, the Gaelic noblewoman, descended from Irish royalty, marries Daddy Robert, the Norman nobleman, descended from King David the First himself. Alexander the Third stripped the widow Marjorie of her clothes. Daddy Bruce and Widow Marjorie had barely laid the The carpet was pulled from under them, so a charm offensive was needed. Friends interceded, Robert and Marjorie pleaded, and now the King gets to arrange marriages for his sons. leading nobles, but he couldn't fob off a widow with a marriage below her station. Could he realistically find a suitable alternative, or would some cash deposited in the royal coffers The widow's abduction is starting to look more like a ruse. trick, to have Daddy Robert marry off a countess under Alexander's nose, making it Within a year Marjorie was pregnant with the next I doubt we'll ever know if it was in London or here. at Turnberry, but if you were a countess, and you could go private, wouldn't you have a home birth? Our Robert the Bruce grew up with a Gaelic-speaking mother of Irish royal stock, and an Anglo-Norman He was probably adopted as a child into a family in the The fact that Robert the Bruce spoke the Gaelic language in the West Highlands, or across Ireland itself, Gaelic, knew stories of Finn Macool, and lived the culture of the Gael, meant that he was a new type of He was different from the Bruce's who had gone before, and when we look at his later life To try and understand the struggle between patriotism and heritage, maybe the answer is here. Alexander III of Scotland died when our Robert was 12 years old, and Grandfather Robert the Crusader Having been born in such a fortuitous and unlikely circumstances, and holding the royal blood, polyglot tongue, and mixed heritage that he did, even then Robert probably saw himself as the young man destined to bring these two strands of Even then he probably knew that 700 years later we'd be talking about his birthday on this day in Scottish history, although I wonder if he realized that 14 years later It would be him who destroyed this castle to keep it from the English. If you want to be part of the member community that supports me making these videos, and get some additional member benefits, then please watch the 39 second video, How Can I Support There's a video link on the screen, and a clickable link in the description below. I'm not a math teacher.