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David "King of Scots" Bruce
(5 Mar 1324 - 22 Feb 1371)
[[Category:House of Bruce]] [[Category: Battle of Halidon Hill]] [[Category: Battle of Neville's Cross]] [[Category: This Day In History February 22]]
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== David II of Scotland ==
Robert the Bruce died when David II was only five. So he wound up a boy king, and was deposed and restored as he vied with Edward Balliol. He also spent about 20 years facing captivity, but seems to have stabilized his rule during the last decade of his life.: Ashley, Mike (2008). A Brief History of British Kings & Queens. pp.161-163, 461. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers. Print.: After the English released him and he returned to Scotland, David dealt firmly with recalcitrant nobles and wider baronial revolt. He continued to pursue the goal of final peace with England
Married off at four-years-old to a seven-year-old Joanna, David remained married to her for 34 years. But said to be a loveless match, they never had kids.
A few years after his release by the English, he went on to marry Margaret Drummond in February of 1364 ... but the couple divorced without issue on 20 March 1370. He died the next year, and the throne passed to the Stewarts through his nephew Robert.
===Vitals===
: David Bruce: G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000)
: Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999)
: Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904)
: Leslie Stephen, editor, Dictionary of National Biography (London, U.K.: Smith, Elder & Company, 1908)
: b. 05 Mar 1323/24 at Dunfermline Palace
: d. 22 Feb 1370/1 Edinburgh Castle
: burial: Holyrood Abbey.
===Titles===
: btw 17 Mar 1328 - 17 Jul 1328: 1st Earl of Carrick [Scotland]
: 07 Jun 1329: David II, King of Scotland
: Coronation: 24 Nov 1331 Scone Abbey
===Family===
: p. Robert I Bruce, King of Scotland and Elizabeth de Burgh.
: m.1 Joanna 'of the Tower' Plantagenet: dau. Edward II, King of England and Isabelle de France 17 Jul 1328 Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
: m.2 Margaret Drummond: dau Sir Malcolm Drummond, 10th Thane of Lennox and unknown dau Graham 20 Feb 1363/64 Inchmurdach Manor, Fife. Divorce: c. 20 Mar 1370.
===Links===
* [[Wikipedia: David II of Scotland]]* ''[[Space:A History of Northumberland|A History of Northumberland]]'' (Lodon, 1893) [https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum01nort#page/39/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 39-40]: "After the battle of [[Wikipedia:Battle_of_Neville%27s_Cross|Neville's Cross]] in 1346, David Bruce, 'who called himself king of Scotland,' was brought a prisoner to Bamburgh. Masters William de Bolton and Hugh de Kilvington, barber surgeons, came to the castle from York to extract the arrow with which he had been wounded in the battle, and to heal him with despatch. They received L6 for their services." citing Rymer Faedera, III. i. p. 109.
===References===
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. I pp. 78-80
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== David II of Scotland ==
Robert the Bruce died when David II was only five. So he wound up a boy king, and was deposed and restored as he vied with Edward Balliol. He also spent about 20 years facing captivity, but seems to have stabilized his rule during the last decade of his life.: Ashley, Mike (2008). A Brief History of British Kings & Queens. pp.161-163, 461. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers. Print.: After the English released him and he returned to Scotland, David dealt firmly with recalcitrant nobles and wider baronial revolt. He continued to pursue the goal of final peace with England
Married off at four-years-old to a seven-year-old Joanna, David remained married to her for 34 years. But said to be a loveless match, they never had kids.
A few years after his release by the English, he went on to marry Margaret Drummond in February of 1364 ... but the couple divorced without issue on 20 March 1370. He died the next year, and the throne passed to the Stewarts through his nephew Robert.
===Vitals===
: David Bruce: G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000)
: Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999)
: Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904)
: Leslie Stephen, editor, Dictionary of National Biography (London, U.K.: Smith, Elder & Company, 1908)
: b. 05 Mar 1323/24 at Dunfermline Palace
: d. 22 Feb 1370/1 Edinburgh Castle
: burial: Holyrood Abbey.
===Titles===
: btw 17 Mar 1328 - 17 Jul 1328: 1st Earl of Carrick [Scotland]
: 07 Jun 1329: David II, King of Scotland
: Coronation: 24 Nov 1331 Scone Abbey
===Family===
: p. Robert I Bruce, King of Scotland and Elizabeth de Burgh.
: m.1 Joanna 'of the Tower' Plantagenet: dau. Edward II, King of England and Isabelle de France 17 Jul 1328 Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
: m.2 Margaret Drummond: dau Sir Malcolm Drummond, 10th Thane of Lennox and unknown dau Graham 20 Feb 1363/64 Inchmurdach Manor, Fife. Divorce: c. 20 Mar 1370.
===Links===
* [[Wikipedia: David II of Scotland]]* ''[[Space:A History of Northumberland|A History of Northumberland]]'' (Lodon, 1893) [https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum01nort#page/39/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 39-40]: "After the battle of [[Wikipedia:Battle_of_Neville%27s_Cross|Neville's Cross]] in 1346, David Bruce, 'who called himself king of Scotland,' was brought a prisoner to Bamburgh. Masters William de Bolton and Hugh de Kilvington, barber surgeons, came to the castle from York to extract the arrow with which he had been wounded in the battle, and to heal him with despatch. They received L6 for their services." citing Rymer Faedera, III. i. p. 109.
===References===
*Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. I pp. 78-80
Events
| Birth | 5 Mar 1324 | Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland | |||
| Death | 22 Feb 1371 | Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland | |||
| Reference No | 1745089 | ||||
| Reference No | 1771788 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Robert "The Bruce, King of Scotland" Bruce (1274 - 1329) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Burgh (1284 - 1327) |
| Sibling | Walter Bruce ( - 1329) |
| Sibling | Matilda "Maud" Bruce (1303 - 1353) |
| Sibling | Margaret Bruce (1307 - 1347) |
| Sibling | John Bruce (1327 - ) |