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Apr 19, 2024 · Dundonald Castle, overlooking the village of Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland. Genealogy for Robert Stewart (1316 - 1390) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
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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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When Robert II King of Scots was born on 2 March 1316, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, his father, Walter Stewart 6th High Steward of Scotland, was 23 and his mother, Marjorie Bruce Princess of Scotland, was 19. He married Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan on 22 November 1347, in Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland.
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 ...
Family Tree - Robert II ROYAL FAMILY TREE ... King of Scotland; Fri, 22 February 1371 - Mon, 19 April 1390; Crowned Tue, 26 March 1371 at Scone Palace, Perth;
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Our common ancestors - Kings of Scotland - Contents Robert II, King of Scotland Robert II and Euphemia. From the Forman Armorial, 1562. Image from here. Robert II, King of Scotland, born 1316. See genealogics and wikipedia. He mar 1stly, c.1347, to Elizabeth Mure and had issue: Robert III, King of Scotland, reigned 1390-1406.
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