Still Defending the Scots
Katie Stevenson: Robert the Bruce, 11 September 2014
Robert the Bruce: King of the Scots
by Michael Penman.
Yale, 443 pp., £25, June 2014,978 0 300 14872 5 Show More
by Michael Penman.
Yale, 443 pp., £25, June 2014,
“... III in 1286 without surviving issue and the subsequent death in 1290 of his young granddaughter, Margaret, Maid of Norway, while she was being brought to Scotland, left no clear heir and the kingdom plummeted into political turmoil. The main competitors for the throne in the ensuing Great Cause (overseen by Edward I of England) were soon established as ... ”