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The Royal House of Scotland
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By 1306 the Scottish royal line had died out, leaving the throne empty and claimed by a dozen lords. One of them, Robert Bruce, was chosen to be king and the title stayed with his family. He was succeeded by his son, David II. The next ruler, Robert II, was the child of Bruce's daughter Margery and Walter Fitz Alan, the High Steward (or Stewart) of Scotland. He was the first of the Stewart rulers. Five others followed before James V succeeded. When in 1542 James V said on his deathbed of the crown of Scotland, 'It came with a lass, it will go with a lass', he was thinking of long-ago Margery and of his own week-old daughter Mary, Queen of Scots, who was executed by Elizabeth I in 1567. Mary's son James VI was indeed the last independent King of Scotland. | | The wax seal of Robert the Bruce |
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Book:
Kings and Queens
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Section:
Scotland
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Chapter:
Introduction
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