Marjory Carrick, Countess of Carrick

Abt 1252 - Bef 1292  (~ 40 years)

• Name	Marjory Carrick
  Suffix	Countess of Carrick
  Born	Abt 1252	Carrick, Argyll, Scotland
  Gender	Female
  Name	Margaret Carrick
  Occupation	Countess of Carrick
  Died	Bef 27 Oct 1292	Scotland
  Person ID	I2452	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Niall mac Duncan of Galloway, 2nd Earl of Carrick,   b. Abt 1202, Carrick, Argyll, Scotland ,   d. 1256, Scotland  (Age ~ 54 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret Stewart,   b. Abt 1206, Scotland ,   d. Abt 1234, Scotland  (Age ~ 28 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F1173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick,   b. 1253, Annandale, Dumfrieshire, Scotland ,   d. 14 Jan 1304, Holy Land, Palestine  (Age 51 years)
  Married	1271	Castle, Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland
  Children	1. Margaret Bruce,   b. Between 1270 and 1295, Scotland ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   2. Christian Bruce,   b. Abt 1272, Scotland ,   d. 1357, Scotland  (Age ~ 85 years)  [natural]   3. Robert the Bruce, King of Scots,   b. 11 Jul 1274, Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland ,   d. 7 Jun 1329, Cardross Castle, on the Clyde, Scotland  (Age 54 years)  [natural]   4. Isabella Bruce,   b. Abt 1275, Scotland ,   d. 1358, Norway?  (Age ~ 83 years)  [natural]   5. Edward Bruce,   b. Abt 1277, Scotland ,   d. 1318, Battle of Dundall, Ireland  (Age ~ 41 years)  [natural]   6. Sir Nigel Bruce,   b. Abt 1280, Scotland ,   d. 1306, Berwick, Berwickshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 26 years)  [natural]   7. Sir Thomas Bruce,   b. Abt 1282, Scotland ,   d. 1307, Carlisle Castle  (Age ~ 25 years)  [natural]   8. Alexander Bruce,   b. Abt 1284, Scotland ,   d. 1307, Carlisle Castle  (Age ~ 23 years)  [natural]   9. Matilda Bruce,   b. Abt 1288, Scotland ,   d. Between 1323 and 1329, Fearn, Scotland  (Age ~ 35 years)  [natural]   10. Mary Bruce,   b. Abt 1292, Scotland ,   d. Bef 22 Sep 1323  (Age ~ 31 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F536	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Robert the Bruce King of Scots, Ronald McNair Scott, Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, New York, 1982 p9: "Robert Bruce was born on 11 Jul 1274 at Turnberry Castle, of which the remains can still be seen perched on the cliffs which plunge steeply into the waters of the First of Clyde. He was the eldest child of a fruitful and happy marriage which had begun in romantic circumstances. "His father, the sixth Robert of that name, at the age of twenty-four had enrolled in a crusade to the Holy Land under the banner of Prince Edward, soon to become King Edward I of England. Among his knightly companions was Adam de Kilconquahar, great-grandson of Duncan, Earl of Fife. Adam was killed in the Palestine defence of Acre leaving as widow his young bride, already with child, Marjorie, Countess of Carrick in her own right. "Powerful as may have been the forces which called Adam de Kilconquahar to arms, there must have remained in the mind of the countess a residue of resentment that he had so soon exchanged his marriage bed for the wars and when the sixth Robert, after his safe return in 1272, called on her with news of her husband's death it is understandable that in her most vulnerable period of widowhood she should have welcomed the supporting presence of the young crusader in her house. "It was a marriage that, from the worldly point of view, had everything to commend it. The Countess Marjorie was the last of her line. Her father Neil, Earl of Carrick, was the only direct descendant of Fergus Lord of Galloway, a Celtic prince who, in the reign of King David I, exercised an almost independent power over the southwest of Scotland. In 1256 when Marjorie was still a baby, her father died leaving her sole possessor of the great Celtic kingdom of Carrick. Her new husband who, on his marriage, became by right of his wife Earl of Carrick, was already the heir to the vast estates of his father, Robert the Competitor, whose principal Scottish possession of Annandale marched with Carrick." Kings and Queens of Europe, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute 1989: "Robert Bruce Died 1295, Son of Robert Bruce Killed 1245 and Isabella Huntingdon Died 1251, Mar Isabel De Clare Died 1254, Parents of Robert Bruce Died 1304, Mar (2) Marjorie Carrick."