7/7/2023 0 Comments David steward daughter![]() ![]() The office was reinstated in 1338 and Robert held it until David's return from France in June 1341. Randolph was captured by the English in July 1335 and in the same year Robert submitted to Balliol bringing about the removal of his guardianship. David escaped to France in 1334 and Parliament, still functioning, appointed Robert and John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray, as joint guardians of the kingdom. Robert, who had fought at Halidon, joined his uncle David in refuge in Dumbarton Castle. In 1329 King Robert I died and his five-year-old son succeeded to the throne as David II under the guardianship of Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray.Įdward Balliol, son of King John Balliol-assisted by the English and those Scottish nobles who had been disinherited by Robert I-invaded Scotland inflicting heavy defeats on the Bruce party on 11 August 1332 at Dupplin Moor and Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333. ![]() Robert Stewart became High Steward of Scotland on his father's death on 9 April 1327, and in the same year Parliament confirmed the young Steward as heir should David die childless. Marjorie Bruce had died probably in 1317 in a riding accident and Parliament decreed her infant son, Robert Stewart, as heir presumptive, but this lapsed on 5 March 1324 on the birth of a son, David, to King Robert and his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh. Upon the death of his uncle David II, Robert succeeded to the throne.Įdward Bruce, younger brother of Robert the Bruce, was named heir presumptive but Edward had no children when he was killed in the Battle of Faughart on 14 October 1318. The son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, and Marjorie, daughter of King Robert the Bruce, he was the first monarch of the House of Stewart. Robert II (2 March 1316 – 19 April 1390) was King of Scots from 1371 to his death in 1390. Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland ![]()
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