Individual Details
Marjorie "Countess of Carrick" Carrick
(Abt 1252 - 9 Nov 1292)
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== Biography ==Margaret (or Marjorie), Countess of Carrick, m Adam de Kilconcath (Kilconquhar), 3rd Earl of Carrick in her right, who d on Crusade at Acre in 1270 without issue. What followed belongs to legend and has been much embroidered by novelists, but the probability appears to be that Robert de Brus, the son of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale and of Cleveland (known to history as "Robert Bruce the Competitor"), newly returned from the Crusade, visited the Countess to bring her the news of her widowhood. He encountered her while she was hunting, she judged him a worthy trophy, and the consequence was his capture and enforced sojourn in her castle until he married her a few days later. Cynics and historians insist that this was a ruse to allow Alexander III to take a lenient view of their having married without his consent, and when he seized her castle and lands she regained them with payment of a fine (perhaps the same fine she would have paid for licence to marry anyway). Countess Marjorie d 1292 brought into this world five sons and five daughers, of whom the most famous son was to become King Robert I, 4th Earl of Carrick. Her husband, Earl of Carrick in her right, resigned the earldom to his eldest son on Nov. 9, 1292, after the Countess had died.
==Sources==
*James Balfour Paul, "Scots Peerage", 1904-1914, Vol. 2 p. 426.
*Douglas Richardson, "Royal Ancestry", 2013, Vol. 1, pp. 596-597.
=== Web Resources ===: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie,_Countess_of_Carrick Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'']
This person was created through the import of Kahn Family Tree 3.2.11_2011-04-29.ged on 30 April 2011.
=== Sources ===
: Source S13
: Title: Ancestry Family Trees: Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;
: Repository: [[#R2]]
== Biography ==Margaret (or Marjorie), Countess of Carrick, m Adam de Kilconcath (Kilconquhar), 3rd Earl of Carrick in her right, who d on Crusade at Acre in 1270 without issue. What followed belongs to legend and has been much embroidered by novelists, but the probability appears to be that Robert de Brus, the son of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale and of Cleveland (known to history as "Robert Bruce the Competitor"), newly returned from the Crusade, visited the Countess to bring her the news of her widowhood. He encountered her while she was hunting, she judged him a worthy trophy, and the consequence was his capture and enforced sojourn in her castle until he married her a few days later. Cynics and historians insist that this was a ruse to allow Alexander III to take a lenient view of their having married without his consent, and when he seized her castle and lands she regained them with payment of a fine (perhaps the same fine she would have paid for licence to marry anyway). Countess Marjorie d 1292 brought into this world five sons and five daughers, of whom the most famous son was to become King Robert I, 4th Earl of Carrick. Her husband, Earl of Carrick in her right, resigned the earldom to his eldest son on Nov. 9, 1292, after the Countess had died.
==Sources==
*James Balfour Paul, "Scots Peerage", 1904-1914, Vol. 2 p. 426.
*Douglas Richardson, "Royal Ancestry", 2013, Vol. 1, pp. 596-597.
=== Web Resources ===: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie,_Countess_of_Carrick Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'']
This person was created through the import of Kahn Family Tree 3.2.11_2011-04-29.ged on 30 April 2011.
=== Sources ===
: Source S13
: Title: Ancestry Family Trees: Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;
: Repository: [[#R2]]
Events
| Birth | Abt 1252 | Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland | |||
| Marriage | 1271 | Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland - Sir Robert "Earl of Carrick, 6th Lord of Annadale, Lord of Hartness, Writtle and Hatfield Broad Oak" Bruce | |||
| Death | 9 Nov 1292 | Carrick, Argyll, Scotland | |||
| Alt name | de Bruce | ||||
| Reference No | 880700 | ||||
| Reference No | 901178 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Sir Robert "Earl of Carrick, 6th Lord of Annadale, Lord of Hartness, Writtle and Hatfield Broad Oak" Bruce (1243 - 1304) |
| Child | Matilda "Countess of Ross, Mary" Brus (1272 - 1326) |
| Child | Robert "The Bruce, King of Scotland" Bruce (1274 - 1329) |
| Child | Isabel Brus (1272 - 1358) |
| Child | Christina Bruce (1273 - 1356) |
| Child | Mary Bruce (1275 - 1323) |
| Child | Edward "Earl of Carrick" Brus (1276 - 1318) |
| Child | Princess Margaret Brus (1276 - 1325) |
| Child | Nigel Brus (1279 - 1306) |
| Child | Thomas Brus (1284 - 1307) |
| Child | Alexander Brus (1285 - 1307) |
| Child | Elizabeth Bruce (1286 - ) |
| Child | Lena Bruce (1273 - 1293) |
| Father | Sir Niall "Nicol, Nicolaus" Carrick (1202 - 1256) |
| Mother | Margaret "Isabel FitzAlan, Countess of Carrick" Stewart (1206 - 1255) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Sir Roland de Carrick (1226 - 1275) |