before 1302), the daughter of Donald, 10th Earl of Mar (d. In 1295, Robert married his first wife, Isabella of Mar (d. In April 1294, the younger Bruce had permission to visit Ireland for a year and a half, and, as a further mark of Edward's favour, he received a respite for all the debts owed by him to the English Exchequer. Both father and son sided with Edward I against Balliol. Robert de Brus had already resigned the earldom of Carrick to Robert Bruce, his son, on the day of his wife's death in 1292, thus making Robert Bruce the Earl of Carrick.
Soon afterwards, his grandfather, Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale - the unsuccessful claimant - resigned his lordship to Robert de Brus, Bruce's father. As he saw it, it prevented his family from taking their rightful place on the Scottish throne. He saw the outcome of the ' Great Cause' in 1292, which gave the Crown of Scotland to his families' great rival, John Balliol, as unjust. Robert's name appears in the company of the Bishop of Argyll, the vicar of Arran, a Kintyre clerk, his father and a host of Gaelic notaries from Carrick. Barrow, Robert's first appearance in history is on a witness list of a charter issued by Alasdair MacDomhnaill, Lord of Islay.
According to his acclaimed biographer G.W.S. Although there is no direct evidence, it is perfectly plausible that he also knew English. We can presume that Bruce was raised speaking all the languages of his lineage and nation and was almost certainly fluent in Gaelic and Norman French, with Latin. He was probably sent to be fostered with a local family, as was the custom.
Although his date of birth is definitely known, his place of birth is less certain: it was probably Turnberry Castle in Ayrshire, although Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire is another possibility, but the claim that he was born at Writtle, Essex is very dubious. From his mother he inherited the Gaelic Earldom of Carrick, and through his father a royal lineage that would give him a claim to the Scottish throne. His mother was by all accounts a formidable woman who, legend would have it, kept Robert Bruce's father captive until he agreed to marriage. 1292) daughter of Niall of Carrick and Margaret, daughter of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland. Bruce was born the first child and eldest son of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale (d.
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