Robert the Bruce Battle of Bannockburn letter discovered

BBC News ^ | 1st June 2013 | BBC News

[the scotsman]

'A copy of an unknown Robert the Bruce letter from the build-up to the Battle of Bannockburn has been discovered.

The letter, sent in 1310, asks English King Edward II to stop persecuting the Scots.

It shows Robert asserting his God-given authority as king of the Scots and addressing Edward as his equal.

The script, thought to have been transcribed from the original, was discovered by chance by a professor of Scottish history at Glasgow University.

Bruce's Scottish troops defeated the English army at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.

The new letter was found in a document which dates from about the turn of the 16th Century and has presented historians with fresh information about a pivotal time in the wars of Scottish independence.'

[SunkenCiv]

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[ClearCase_guy]

[Lurker]

I am named after Robert the Bruce.

[Beowulf9]

This is really a tremendous discovery!

[GeronL]

You don’t find letters from the 1300’s everyday

[Beowulf9]

Robert the Bruce. True King of Scotland.

[meatloaf]

There was a news article recently about a letter being delivered 70 years after it was mailed. But a letter showing up after 700 years is unimaginable.

[mardi59]

I am a direct descendant of The Clan Ross and Hugh MacTaggart, 5th Earl of Ross. The Clan Ross fought beside Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn. Hugh MacTaggart 5th Earl (de) Ross was killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333.

[MondoQueen]

And I am one of his direct descendants! We actually traced it through our Scottish side. But that’s nothing. I’m related to Hugh Hefner, too. (sarcasm intended)

[Monkey Face]

My heritage goes back through Duncan the First and beyond. I am very proud of the heroes in my lineage!

Thanks for posting this. It is quite interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

AFAIK, the only Duncan I’ve got in my past is the donuts. ;’)

[RetiredArmy]

So, you are . . . Robert or Bruce??? Or both??? ;-)

[Black Agnes]

I’m descended from the Good Sir James Douglas.

[central_va]

Sort of like Mott the hoople.

[Monkey Face]

LOL!
I had a Duncan great-grandmother and married a Duncan, so I’ve got it bad! ;o]

Different lines, I’m sure.

[Monkey Face]

I will have to get back into my genealogy and find the links; once you get to the Royalty, it’s a little difficult to keep the lines straight as there was so much inter-marrying and incest.

It has been a while since I worked on it, so it will be like new again!

[fella]

I'm kinda of sorta related. Some of my ancient kin were peasants who belonged to the land and the land belonged to the Barons, it's a nice way of saying slaves. A number of them later were in various British prisons at various times and opted to go to the colony of Virginia and later Georgia instead of the gallows and I'm descended in roundabout ways from the survivors.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, if no one ever married a distant cousin, no one (even in the non-Moslem world) would ever *get* married. :’) I’ve never found any ancestral doubling, but I haven’t looked that hard, some lines only go back 12 or 14 generations.

[Monkey Face]

I don’t know of anyone in this country who didn’t have a slave of some kind in his background. Maybe an indentured servant, maybe a slave, maybe a paid lackey, but it was common at one time as a way to pay debts.

I’m proud of my indentured servant forefather...swept overboard off the Mayflower during a storm and was rescued when the ship wallowed again. He was 17.