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  2. 4 days ago · One of Scotland’s most famous kings and folk heroes, King Robert the Bruce is also one of our most celebrated warriors, leading Scotland in the First War of Scottish Independence against England. The House of Bruce ruled Scotland between 1306 and 1371, with two Scottish Kings – King Robert I and his son David II of Scotland.

  3. 4 days ago · So far this series we’ve looked at two of Scotland’s most famous monarchs: Robert the Bruce and Mary, Queen of Scots. Today, we step back further in time to meet the rulers whose names have become more forgotten to time. Helping Jackie to acquaint herself with the earliest kings and queens of Scotland is Richard Oram, a professor of medieval and environmental history at Stirling University ...

  4. 1 day ago · The son of James II of England and Ireland and VII of Scotland, he was the claimant to the thrones of Britain and Ireland. For British and Irish Catholics he was “the King over the Water”. Many moons ago, towards the end of the last millennium, when I was at a nominally non-denominational but culturally profoundly Anglican school in London ...

  5. 2 days ago · But the MacDougalls made a comeback when John’s grandson, another John nicknamed Gallda, Gaelic for ‘foreigner’ in reference to his long sojourn in England, managed to ingratiate himself sufficiently with Bruce’s son, King David II (1329-71), to secure the hand in marriage of the king’s niece and obtain a new grant of Dunstaffnage Castle with its surrounding Lordship of Lorn (broadly ...

  6. 5 days ago · Rod the Mod credits the influence of his father - Robert Stewart, a Scot from Edinburgh - for his support of the Scotland national team over the English side. He revealed meeting with Jock Stein and other star Celtic players of the 70s was what finally convinced him to become a lifelong Celtic supporter at the age of 28.

  7. 19 hours ago · Confirmed as the administrative centre of the church in Scotland, St Andrews flourished and grew, with its burgh of barony status helping to make it an important trading post. The most famous Bishop of St Andrews was William Lamberton at the time of the Wars of Independence. His support for Robert the Bruce was vital to the rise of the king and ...

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Rory_StewartRory Stewart - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Roderick James Nugent Stewart OBE FRSGS FRSL (born 3 January 1973), known as Rory Stewart, is a British academic, and broadcaster, and former diplomat and politician. He is the Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University 's Jackson School of Global Affairs. [1] He hosts The Rest Is Politics podcast with Alastair ...

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