BRUCE, Maud Matilda

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• Name	BRUCE, Maud Matilda
  Birth	1283	Turnberry Castle, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland
  Gender	Female
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  Death	22 Sep 1323	Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  Burial	Aft 22 Sep 1323	Fearn Abbey, Hill of Fearn, Rossshire, Scotland
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  Person ID	I49921	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	BRUCE, Lord Robert de V ,   b. 1 Jul 1243, Annandale District, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Annandale District, Dumfriesshire, Scotlandd. 4 Apr 1304, Holm Cultram, Cumberland, England (Age 60 years)
  Mother	MAC DHONNCHAD, Marjorie ,   b. 11 Apr 1254, Carrick, Argyllshire, Scotland Carrick, Argyllshire, Scotlandd. 27 Oct 1292, Carrick, Argyllshire, Scotland (Age 38 years)
  Marriage	1271	Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F21458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	ROSS, Earl Hugh ,   b. Abt 1275, Fearn, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland Fearn, Ross & Cromarty, Scotlandd. 19 Jul 1333, Halidon Berwick-On-Tweed, Northumberland, England (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	1308
  Family ID	F25368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  BIOGRAPHY: During the First War of Scottish Independence, she was captured by the English and imprisoned in a cage at Roxburgh Castle for circa four years. She was the daughter of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, and Marjorie, Countess of Carrick. Along with the king's other female relatives (Christina Bruce, Marjorie Bruce, his wife Elizabeth de Burgh and supporter Isabella MacDuff), she was captured and betrayed to the English by the Earl of Ross. By order of King Edward I of England, she was then held prisoner in an iron or wooden cage exposed to the public view in Roxburgh Castle. Isabella MacDuff was imprisoned in a similar cage at Berwick Castle. They were both transferred to better conditions in 1310. This was not necessarily a humane move, it has been suggested that by this stage Bruce was gaining strength, the women were potentially valuable hostages, and the English did not want them dying of exposure. She was eventually released in exchange for English noblemen captured at the Battle of Bannockburn. She married, firstly, Sir Neil Campbell, one of her brother's loyal supporters, by whom she had John Campbell, Earl of Atholl. She married, secondly, Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser and Cowie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bruce Relationship to de Bruce, Robert. Relationship to Carrick, Margaret (Or Marjory) By her first husband Sir Neil Campbell, Mary became ancestress of the House of Argyll. Mary was captured along with several others by the English in 1306. On order of King Edward I, she was put into a wooden cage jutting from the battlements of Roxburgh castle. He ordered her to be shut up as an animal in a zoo, exposed to the gaze of passers-by with the only concession to modesty, the provision of privies within the walls. Mary endured caging for four long years. She was released from her cage in 1310 and moved to Newcastle, England and from there, in 1312, exchanged for the brother of Sir Philip Mowbray.