Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

ciiAi;Ti;r;s r.v tju: I'.uucr.s of anx.-\>'I)Aij;. I'lii
This royal inani.-.yc ultiinnlel}' led to the (loscev.d.uit ol' tlie Bruees bccoiuiiig
King ol' Se-ol-laiui.
The sixtli Bruce of Annandale was Bolicrl, wlio was the ekk-sfc son and
successor of liis fatlicr Boben and the rrincess L^abcl liis wife. Tii tlie year
li-tO-aO lie was one of the Lords Juiliccs of the counaou picas of lin^huid.
At first siLjht such a position iudicates incompatibility with the owjiershi])
of Annandale. But the connections of the Bruces with England were from
the first fully more prominent than with Scotland. The Lord Justice was
afierwards made Sheriff of Cnniberland and Governor of Carlisle, and in the
following year, 1355, he was made one of the Eegcnts of Scotland. lie .sat
in the parliament at Brigham on IStli July 1200 as Loud of ANNAi>'DAi.r,.
On the death of ^Targarel of Xorway in the .same year, Bruce cnleied liis
claim to tlie crov, ii of Scotland as nearest lieir to King Alexander the 'Diird,
But his claim was lepelled by King Edward the Fir^t on ITth Kovembev
1292. .
This
Pioheit Bruce is best InKAS'u in history as the Co>:I'i:titoi;.
lie resigned his right in favc^ur of his son Bobert ].!ruce, who had boconu;
Earl of Carrick, and died at his caslle of Lochnuiben in 1295, aged S5.
There are several charters of special interest granted by the Jk'uees.
The chaiter by llobert de Bruce in. favour of Ivo and his heirs appears
as the foundation charter of the family of Kirkpalrick. The charter
bears no date, but, from the names of the v,"itnes.'>cs, it )nn>t have been
granted about tlie year 11 DO by the .second Bobert Bruce of Annandale.
It is vci-}- bii'jf, as will be seen from an exact facsimile here iiilr'iduccil.*
Tin; thiid chaitcr is by AVillianr Bruce, either the son or the brother of
Bobert Bruce, the granter of the charter to Ivo. Lilce the first charter, Lhi.s
one bears no date; but, from the names of the witnesses mentioned in it,
it was probably granted between the years 1194 and 1214. But while in
the first charter Ivo is designated simply by his Christian name, lie is in the
second ch.arter designated " Ivo of l\iil;patiick.''- This is an instance of a
• Charter priiiteJ p. 1 of this voluiiit. - Ibiil. \\\i. 2, 3 of lliis voliunc.