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May 16, 2024 · Robert II (March 2, 1316 - April 19, 1390), king of Scots, called "the Steward", a title that gave the name to the House of Stewart (or Stuart). He ruled from 1371 until his death. Robert was the sole son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland (d. 1326) and Marjorie Bruce, daughter of King Robert I of Scotland and his first wife ...
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Family and Early Years
Robert Stewart, son of Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland and Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert Bruce and Isabel Mar, was born on 2 March 1315/16 at Paisley, Renfrewshire. On 3 December 1318, parliament entailed the succession to the crown on the male heirs of King Robert I, whom failing on his grandson Robert Stewart, the son of Marjorie de Brus. As King Robert did not as yet have any sons, this act made Robert Stewart the heir presumptive. Six years later (when Robert was eight),...
King of Scots
Robert II was crowned on 26 March 1370/71 by William de Laundelys, bishop of St Andrews, at Scone "in the presence of the prelates, earls, and barons, and of a great multitude of people. He was fifty-five years old and in frail health, no longer the energetic and attractive man of his youth. His eyes were now said to be "as red as scarlet cloth" and earned him the nickname "Auld Blearie." Many biographers have attributed this to his love of wine and women (he fathered at least twenty-three ch...
Marriage to Elizabeth Mure
When they were both no more than twenty years of age, Robert persuaded Elizabeth Mure to elope with him to his family home in Dundonald, which was about six miles from her home at Rowallan. There were two impediments to their marriage which may have seemed like serious obstacles to the young couple: (1) they were related in the fourth degree of consanguinity and therefore marriage would require a papal dispensation; and (2) when Elizabeth was eleven years old her parents had contracted her in...
Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,5 vols, ed, Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author 2013), vol. 1, p. 615-617 B...Dunbar, Sir Archibald H. Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005-1625. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1899), p. 159Burnett, George (ed). Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum (Exchequer Rolls of Scotland). Edinburgh: General Register House (1880), vol. 4, appendix to preface, p. cliii.Click the Changes tab to see edits to this profile. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this profile.
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Robert II (r.1371-1390) Robert was the son of Robert I's daughter Marjorie and her husband Walter the Steward. He took Stewart as his surname, and so became the first monarch of the Royal House of Stewart. When he was in his 20s he ruled Scotland as Regent for his much younger uncle, David II, during David's minority and again after the king's ...
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Dec 15, 2020 · Nevertheless, he grew into a charming man that attracted many love interests; Robert had about 21 children to two wives and numerous mistresses. Though many were illegitimate, his prolificacy did much to strengthen the position of the family within Scotland, with the Stewarts holding more than half of the nation’s earldoms during his reign (1371-1390).
