Individual Details

Isabel Brus

(Abt 1272 - 1358)

[[Category:House_of_Bruce]]
[[Category:Scottish_Nobility]]
[[Category:Norwegian_Nobility]]

== Biography ==

===Contention===Isobel Bruce is often recorded as having married Sir Thomas Randolph of Strathdon, Great Chamberlain to Alexander III, and to have been the mother by him of King Robert Bruce's faithful lieutenant Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray. This is extremely unlikely to be correct and there is no proof for this assertion. It is discounted entirely by Sir James Balfour Paul in The Scots PeerageThe Scots Peerage, Sir James Balfour Paul, [https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun02pauluoft#page/432/mode/2up Vol 2, page 433] where he provides evidence to support his position. Randolph certainly seems likely, given his position in the Scottish Wars of Independence, to have married into the Bruce family but it is not clear to which lady.

===Life and Marriage===Isobel Bruce was born to Sir Robert Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale, and his wife Marjorie (Margaret), Countess of Carrick. She is thought to have been born as a second child and after her brother Robert, later Robert I, thus after 1274. However female children were not always recorded in the correct sequence and she may have been born earlier and around 1272. Sir James Balfour Paul notes this discrepancy.The Scots Peerage, Sir James Balfour Paul, [https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun02pauluoft#page/432/mode/2up Vol 2, page 433]
Wikipedia notes, but without source of her age, that she, in 1293 and at the age of 21, travelled to Norway with her father and was married, at Bergen, to King [[Magnusson-196|Eric II Magnusson]].See wikipedia for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Bruce Isobel Bruce] Eric had been previously married to Princess Margaret, daughter to Alexander III but she had died shortly after giving birth to [[Eriksdatter-10|Margaret, Maid of Norway]].
Eric Magnusson died in July 1299 and Isobel remained in Norway. The marriage produced one daughter, [[Ericksdottir-1|Ingeborg Eriksdottir]] who later married Valdemar Magnusson of Sweden, Duke of Finland, in 1312. Isabel herself arranged for her daughter's marriage.
She did not return to Scotland, although she did support the Bruce cause and provided support from Norway to her sister Christina. She is known to have remained in Bergen the rest of her life and played an active role in internal politics and the church.
She acted as a mediator, in 1312, between Scotland and Norway over disputes regarding the Orkney and Shetland islands.
She is known to have been alive in 1357 as she appears as one of the heirs of her daughter, Ingeborg, then Duchess of Uppland, Ă–land and Finland. She died shortly after, in 1358.See wikipedia for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Bruce Isobel Bruce]


== Sources ==
* '''Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. IV p. 595'''



See also:
* Paul, Sir James Balfour; ''The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom''; Edinburgh (1904), [https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun02pauluoft Volume 2].
*DN, Vol. 2 no. 152 and 154, Vol. 3 no. 64, Vol. 7 No.. 31 and 89, Vol. 8 No.. 82, 96 and *122, Vol. 19 No.. 379, 389-390, 560 and 563, bd . 21 No.. 15
*RN, Vol. 2-6
*Isl.Ann.
*Erikskrönikan, ed. by S.- B. Jansson, Stockholm 1987
*H. Koht: "Norwegian queens" in Soga 1926
*E. Bull the "Eirik Magnusson" in NBL1, Vol. 3, 1926
*ds: biography in NBL1, Vol. 6, 1934
*H. Koht: "Magnus Eriksson" in NBL1, Vol. 9, 1940
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Bruce
*https://nbl.snl.no/Isabella_Bruce

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Events

BirthAbt 1272Carrick, Scotland
Death1358Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
Alt nameMagnusson
Reference No5781893
Reference No5950389
Reference No60

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