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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_28370" /> ==
 
<p> an eminent Scotch preacher, was born 1559, and educated at St. Andrews. In 1587 he became one of the ministers of Edinburgh, where his eloquence, boldness, and piety gave him great popularity and influence. He died 1631. A collection of his sermons was printed in 1790, and has recently been reprinted for the Wodrow Society (Edinb. 1843, 8vo). </p>
Robert Bruce <ref name="term_69602" />
       
<p> King of Scotland, son of the preceding, did homage for a time to Edward, but joined the national party and became one of a regency of four, with Comyn for rival; stabbed Comyn in a quarrel at Dumfries, 1306, and was that same year crowned king at Scone; was defeated by an army sent against him, and obliged to flee to Rathlin, Ireland; returned and landed in Carrick; cleared the English out of all the fortresses except Stirling, and on 24th June 1314 defeated the English under [[Edward]] II. at Bannockburn, after which, in 1328, the independence of [[Scotland]] was acknowledged as well as Bruce's right to the crown; suffering from leprosy, spent his last two years at Cardross Castle, on the Clyde, where he died in the thirty-third year of his reign (1274-1329). </p>
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_69601" /> ==
 
<p> Son of the preceding, earl of Carrick, through Marjory his wife; served under [[Edward]] at the battle of [[Dunbar]] for one instance; sued for the Scottish crown in vain (1269-1304). </p>
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<ref name="term_69602"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/bruce,+robert+(3) Robert Bruce from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
<ref name="term_28370"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/bruce,+robert+(2) Robert Bruce from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_69601"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/bruce,+robert+(2) Robert Bruce from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
       
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Latest revision as of 17:58, 15 October 2021

Robert Bruce [1]

King of Scotland, son of the preceding, did homage for a time to Edward, but joined the national party and became one of a regency of four, with Comyn for rival; stabbed Comyn in a quarrel at Dumfries, 1306, and was that same year crowned king at Scone; was defeated by an army sent against him, and obliged to flee to Rathlin, Ireland; returned and landed in Carrick; cleared the English out of all the fortresses except Stirling, and on 24th June 1314 defeated the English under Edward II. at Bannockburn, after which, in 1328, the independence of Scotland was acknowledged as well as Bruce's right to the crown; suffering from leprosy, spent his last two years at Cardross Castle, on the Clyde, where he died in the thirty-third year of his reign (1274-1329).

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  1. ↑ Robert Bruce from The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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