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Christina De Ireby (2) = (3) Robert Bruce, Lord of Annandale = (1 Christina de Ireby (2) = (3) Robert Bruce, Lord of Annandale = (1) Isabel de Clare Neil, Earl of Carrick = Margaret Stewart m ca 1275 ‘the competitor’ b 1226 b ca 1202 b ca 1206 d 1305 b 1210 m 1241 d 1256 m 1234 d 1295 d 1271 Lochmaben = (1) Sir Thomas de Lascelles d ca 1260 (2) Sir Adam de Gesemuth Richard Bruce John Bruce Isabel Bruce Robert Bruce (2) = (1) Marjory, Countess of Carrick = (1) Adam de Kilconquhar 3 daughters Euphemia Bruce = John Fitzmarmaduke b 1243 d ca 1292 m bef 1266 of Stranton d ca 1304 m ca 1273 d 1270 = Ivone Kirkpatrick of Closeburn (2) Maud Fitzalan Sir Robert de Bruce m 1295 Sir Bernard Bruce d 1332 William Bruce Dupplin Moor = Sir Philip Burnell d 1294 daughter Adam Kirkpatrick of Closeburn = Elizabeth de of Connington = Helena Vipont = ? Sully and Exton = Thomas Randolph = (1) Alicia de Clare (3) Eleanor =(2) Constance Thomas Bruce Richard Fitzmarmaduke Mary Fitzmarmaduke d 1330 = Robert de Lumley = (2) Sir Richard le Waleys de Morteyn = Eleanor st 1 Lord Waleys of Thomas Randolph Stephen Kirkpatrick of Closeburn Burghwallis Earl of Moray = Isabel Torthorwald d 1332 Bernard de Bruce John de Bruce Robert de Lumley m by 1306 d 1300 = Isabella Stewart = Agatha Bernard de Bruce Bernard de Bruce Robert Bruce = (1) Isabel of Mar Isobel Bruce Edward Bruce Sir Thomas Bruce Alexander Bruce Niel Bruce Christian Bruce Margaret Bruce Matilda Bruce King of Scots m ca 1295 b ca 1275 Earl of Carrick d 1307 d 1307 d 1306 d 1357 = Sir William de Carlyle = Aodh de Ross th (Robert I) d bef 1302 d 1358 d 1318 = Helen Erskine Berwick-upon-Tweed = (1) Gartnait 4 Earl of Ross b 1274 = (2) Elizabeth de Burgh (2) = Eric II Faughart, Ireland Earl of Mar m ca 1308 King of Norway = Isabel of m ca 1292 Turnberry, b ca 1280 Mary Bruce Ayrshire m 1302 b 1268 Strathbogie d 1305 d ca 1323 d 1329 d 1327 m ca 1293 = (2) Sir Christopher Seton Cardross, Argyll Cullen, Banffshire d 1299 = (1) Neil Campbell = (1) ? Crawford m 1306 m ca1312 m bef 1303 = (1) Margaret of Scotland d 1306 b 1261 d ca 1316 (2) Margaret Cameron = (1) Hubert de Multon = (3) Sir Andrew Moray William de Carlyle John de Carlyle d bef 1303 d 1347 d 1347 Windsor of Bothwell Ingibiorg Eriksdottir m 1281 = (2) Alexander Fraser m ca 1325 b ca 1297 Bergen, Norway of Touchfraser and Cowie d 1283 m ca 1316 = Valdemar Volkunga Tonsberg, Norway Alexander de Bruce Duke of Finland Thomas de Bruce d 1332 Earl of Carrick Margaret ‘Maid of Norway’ b ca 1317 d 1333 Margaret Seton b 1283 Hallidon Hill d 1290 = Sir John Elphinstone = Eleanor Douglas John Fraser William Fraser Helen of Mar Donald of Touchfraser b ca 1318 d aft 1342 Earl of Mar b ca 1317 d 1346 = (1) Sir John Menteith b bef 1305 Durham Lord of Arran d 1332 Sir John Moray Sir Thomas Moray = Margaret Moray = (2) Sir James Garioch = Isabella Stewart Lord of Bothwell Lord of Bothwell Dougal Campbell Duncan Campbell Macdonnachie ? John Campbell d 1364 d 1352 d 1361 d aft 1323 of Inverawe Earl of Atholl = Margaret Graham (1) = Joan Moray b ca 1313 Countess of Menteith = (2) Archibald d 1333 m ca 1348 Douglas (2) = Joan Menteith (2) = (1) Malise = (1) Agnes ? 3rd Earl of Earl of Strathearn Margaret of Mar Douglas = (3) Morice Moray = Malcolm b ca 1325 Earl of Strathearn th 5 Earl of Lennox d ca 1400 = (4) William de Moravia = (1) Margaret Bruce d 1333 Threave, Earl of Sutherland Hallidon Hill Dumfriesshire Marjory Bruce (2) = Walter Stewart David II Margaret Bruce Matilda Bruce John Bruce th b ca 1297 6 High Steward of King of Scots d 1346 or 7 d 1353 d 1327 William de Ross John Ross Marjory or Matilda Ross th d 1364 m 1334 m 1315 Scotland b 1324 = William de Moravia Aberdeen 5 Earl of Ross th d 1316 b ca 1296 d 1371 5 Earl of Sutherland = Sir Thomas Isaac m 1342 (2) = Malise th Paisley d 1327 = (1) Joanna Plantagenet m 1345 d 1372 8 Earl of Strathearn Bathgate b 1321 = Mary Macdonald = (1) Mary = (1) Alice Erskine m 1328 b ca 1290 d 1362 = (3) Isabella de (2) Margaret Drummond = (1) John Logie Graham b ca 1340 m 1364 d ca 1375 Elizabeth Bruce Robert Bruce Neil Bruce Walter Bruce Christina Bruce Margaret Bruce = Walter Oliphant Baron of Liddesdale d 1346 of Odiston of Carrick = Robert Glen of Aberdalgie b ca 1293 Durham d 1332 Dupplin Moor, Perthshire .
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