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Elizabeth de Burgh was the daughter of Richard de Burgh thepowerfulEarlofUlster a close friend of Edward I king of England.Thereislittleinformation to say when Elizabeth first met the youngRobertBruceEarlof Carrick, but it is likely that they may have met attheEnglishcourt,both being frequent visitors, in the days of peacewithEngland,whenAlexander III was King of Scots.
With the death of Alexander, who died without heir. Edward sethissightsoncontrol of Scotland, the new King of Scots was chosenasJohnBalliol.After the battle of Dunbar where Balliol and the Scotsarmy were defeatedby Edward, many of the Scottish nobles werecapturedandBalliol wasstripped of his Kingship and sent into exileinFrance.Meanwhile theresistance in Scotland continued with SirWilliamWallaceand Sir AndrewMoray
With the capture and execution of Wallace, Bruce decided tomakeastandagainst Edward. Robert the Bruce was crowned Robert I KingofScotsatScone on the 27 March 1306. After the coronation Elizabethandhercourtwere sent to the safety of Kildrummy castle under theprotectionofNigelBruce. The newly crowned King Robert I headed for Perth,heldbytheEnglish Earl of Pembroke. Upon reaching the castle, Bruce rodeuptothewalls and challenged Pembroke to come out and fightorsurrenderthetown. Pembroke replied that the day was too far goneforcombat butonthe following morning he would accept his challenge.
The English attacked the Scots camp in the night. DuringtheattackBrucemade for Pembroke and slew his horse. Being outnumberedtwoto oneBruceand his men had no choice other than to fight their waytothesafety ofthe hills. It was a shattering defeat, the Scots armyhadallbut beendestroyed. At Kildrummy castle the situation was justasgravefor theQueen and her Royal party. An English force hadarrivedandattacked thecastle, one of the strongest in Scotland andcapableofwithstanding along siege. The English were almost on the pointof abandoning the attack, when they managed to bribedthecastle'sblacksmith,who set fire to the corn store which quicklyspreaduntil themain gate wasburned. Though the defenders held out for anightand aday they finallysurrendered, and the Queen and those withherewerecaptured. Theblacksmith received his reward, of all the goldhecouldcarry. The Englishfulfilled their bargain by pouring it moltendownhis throat.
'.......all wives of his enemies were to be treated as outlaws,anyman,ashe might wish, could rob, rape or murder them immunefrompunishment' Edward King of England, the so called'hammer' of theScots
The captured Royal party included Queen Elizabeth, andtheCountessofBuchan, Bruce's daughter Marjorie, and his twosisters,MaryandChristina. Nigel Bruce and all the other men taken withhimweredraggedthrough the streets of Berwick, hung and thenbeheaded.TheCountess ofBuchan and Mary Bruce were shut up in wooden cageserectedonthe wallsof Berwick and Roxburgh castles, exposed to the gazeofpassersby andtreated as if they were animals in a zoo. Bruce's 12yearolddaughterMarjorie was sent to a nunnery.
Elizabeth represented perhaps Edward's greatest chanceforrevengeagainstBruce, though one thing was in her favour, her father.TheEarlof Ulsterwould have made an unwelcome enemy for Edward,Elizabethwasplaced underhouse arrest in England. Eight years later in1314,Robertthe Brucedefeated Edward's son, Edward II at Bannockburn,theScotscaptured over100 English knights and Barons. These wereexchangedforQueen Elizabethand fifteen other Scottish captives held inEngland.MaryBruce had beenreleased in 1312, the Countess of Buchanappears tohavedied incaptivity.
In 1316 Bruce's pregnant daughter Marjorie was thrown fromherhorseandkilled, the surgeons were immediately sent for and deliveredtheboy,whofifty four years later would become Robert II the firstoftheRoyalStewart line. On the 15th of March 1324, Queen ElizabethgavebirthtoDavid, the future King. Little more is known of thisQueendescribedinher day as a great beauty, who had risked everything forherloveforRobert the Bruce, yet throughout her years ofcaptivityandseparationmaintained the dignity of the Queen of Scots.QueenElizabethBruce diedon the 26th of October 1327. she was to befollowed bythe Kinghimselfwho died eight months later.
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