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Did he really "nor" without a preceding "neither"? I rather doubt it. I see the Bruce as a grammatical kind of dude. I found another version on a website about the clan McAlister: "We fight not for glory, wealth, or honour, but for that liberty the loss of which no virtuous man will survive."
I mean, Robert didn't write that. That's from the Declaration Of Arbroath, most likely written by Bernard of Kilwinning, who was the Abbot Of Arbroath and the Chancellor Of Scotland. That said, it was a declaration that Robert was the rightful king of Scotland and asked the Pope to un-excommunicate him and formally recognize his authority.
Through my fore father Robert the Bruce also named Robert the 1st of scottland mother side my other fore father was name Eric blood axe a Norwegian viking king got the name by killing 20 of his brothers not to take the throne am actually like him a outlaw with a heart of gold he tried to defend Scottland from English invaders
Medieval kings and knights be like: "BRO, I HATE when that happens! I tried taking it to a number of Blacksmiths, but most said they couldn't fix it, and one said he'd do it if I BoUgHt An ExTeNdEd WaRrAnTy. I loosed my tongue and spake unto him, saying, 'BRO! I'm a Knight! I could have you killed this very second! Kneel and know thy place, peasant!' Bloody peasants. They thinketh themselves as Lords and Magistrates!"
Another related person to this would be James "the black" Douglas, one of roberts key captains who routinely stormed castles with only a handful of men and destroyed them including his own family home.
The Douglas Clan are super interesting, the Scottish crown eventually had to "Break" them a couple of hundred years later which is one of the inspirations of the red wedding.
James also eventually went crusading against the moors in Spain carrying Robert the Bruce's heart into battle in order to ensure he kept the Bruce's promise to the Pope to go on a crusade.
Robert the Bruce is my 18th great grandfather. Robert Stewart III is my 14th. I've been researching my heritage through several sources lately and it's very interesting. I imagine at some point many of us connect with royalty in some way so I can't be sure how unique or special it is, but it's fun to think about.
I'm also a descendent. 🖤 Found out when my grandmother passed away and we found ancestry documents she and her family kept. Really cool to learn about.
Get in line mate, Robert II had many many kids, so anyone from Scottish heritage has a chance at being related to him. He is my 20th great grandfather.
The Scots also scattered the fields with thousands of caltrops; three-pointed barbed spikes, which horses and footsoldiers would tread upon. There were so many that they are still being found in the fields around Bannockburn to this day, and some can be seen in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
@@ThomasTrue That's certainly interesting. I was born in Greenock not too far from Glasgow, and I've always wanted to go back to Scotland. I will be sure to keep Edinburgh and it's museums in mind when I do.
We traced our lineage to Sir Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney recently. Which took us all the way back to Robert the Bruce from there. So cool to learn about and research into.
Very good video. Pretty much bang on. I studied Robert de bruz, loved every minute of it. He was also one of the best knights in Europe, probably why he loved to fight one on one
This is mentioned indirectly in this video. He captured lands supporting Comyn and butchered everyone. Thats why i ask what makes him a hero. Sounds like everything he did was for himself. Not for the benefit of the Scottish people. What is also ignored is that the choice of meeting at the monastary was a tradition of meeting enemies on sacred ground to ensure peaceful negotiation. He betrayed that and murdered his contender to the throne. Sounds like a piece of work to me.
Neil Fraser him & his supporters also got ambushed & killed on other clans territory. That was clan justice. The Scottish church forgave him killing Comyn cos Scotland needed a champion & Robert the Bruce had it thrust upon him. He sacrificed a lot for Scotland, believe me! Remember this is happening in the 14th century, dog eat dog
@silverblade Edward was formidable king & warrior. Most Scottish nobles would’ve rather waited for him to die & deal with his son. But that didn’t happen
This was very educational for me! I am descended from Robert the Bruce (his grandson, Robert III's daughter Mary's line.) And I never really knew his story. Thanks! 😊
King Robert the Bruce Goodwill fund still helps the poor of the city of Aberdeen. When I left hospital that was funded by him, I moved into sheltered housing, I was in need of carpet and bed and applied to the Goodwill fund. The city motto to this day is 'Bon Accord' his password when he was an outlaw.
I'll watch this after I see the movie (it's on my queue, I just haven't gotten to it yet). Please do videos on the following people: 1. Dennis Rader 2. Jack London 3. Upton Sinclair 4. Jack Ketchum 5. Jane Austen 6. Anton LaVey 7. Annaliese Michel
I'm slowly starting to realize why a lot of people don't like the Braveheart movie. It's practically fictional. Awesome battle scenes though! P.S. Then again, a lot of historical records are suspect, are they not? Unless confirmed by archaeology, we have to have faith that historians/scribes were being truthful and not embellishing details for the glory of those ruling.
He definitely did not meet or impregnate Isabella of France, he wasn’t Edward iii’s dad The Bruce did not fight for the English & betray him on the battlefield. The battle of Stirling bridge didn’t even feature a bridge. He was more about Guerrilla warfare, all the clans were. Anyhow Mel Gibson just made up A LOT of shite but it’s a good movie to get the auld patriotic juices flowing 🏴
@@lyndsaycrawford It's good, but the writing and inaccuracies bug me too much. I can't take any of the English characters seriously because they're so cartooney.
I'm from Scottish and Irish decent mostly. With a little bit of Cherokee in my family. I'm a proud and bullish man. I will fight if pushed into it. Believe it comes from all my bloodline. I'm 46.
I’m from Carlisle and never knew that the Bruce’s lived there for a bit :D I also found out from my granny that I may be connected to Robert the Bruce in some way :) Would also love to see a bio on Henry VIII :)
Hey, one of my relatives, Robert Kirkpatrick, was one of those "retainers". He became the first Lord of Kirkmichael for "checking" on John "Red" Comyn Health. Our family motto was " I mak sicker" or in plain English, "I make sure", There is a great placard outside where the church use to stand, describing this incident as well as mentioning Robert's role.
not to lie my great great great great grandfather carried the heart of Robert the bruce on the last crusade my family is from the house of Stuarts in Scotland. His name was Sir James Douglas
YOU FAILED to mention that Bruce gathering all the chiefs of Scotland in Arbroath Abbey in 1320 and each added their seal & signed one of the most eloquent declarations ever written, namely the Scottish Declaration of Independence.
Robert the Bruce is my grandfather through three family lines one of them being through the other great Scottish hero, "Black Agnes" (my 20th great-grandmother) of Dunbar castle. ;)
Fun fact, king Robert the Bruce is a DIRECT descendant of a long line of norse jarls and kings from orkney and Norway goingback to 160AD, some of his ancestors lines split off to King Harold haardrada and even Hrolfr Rognvaldsson who become Rollo the first Duke of Normandy whos blood is in most modern day rulers. I myself is descended from the norse jarl line through the Scottish Bruce nobility then the House of Stewart
Had some more ideas on who to Biography: Clint Eastwood Lee Van Cleef Eli Wallach Laurel and Hardy Greta Garbo Paul Robeson James Stewart Cary Grant Marlene Dietrich Vivian Leigh Marx Brothers Charlton Heston Gene Kelly Ginger Rodgers Fred Astaire Judy Garland Shirley Temple James Mason Liza Minelli James Cagney Robert Mitchum Gary Cooper Grace Kelly Kris Kristofferson Elizabeth Taylor Kirk Douglas Tim Burton Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Raymond Burr Robert Shaw Roy Schieder Max Von Sydow Marlon Brando Ellen Burstyn Robert de Niro Paul Newman Robert Redford Al Pacino Montgomery Clift Sidney Poitier Jack Lemmon Henry Fonda Ron Howard John Wayne Natalie Wood Francis Ford Coppola Stanley Kubrick Alfred Hitchcock Kim Novak Ingrid Bergman Humphrey Bogart ....😊❤
Wtf is wrong w u? They cover real Historical People with significant background that left a great or horrible legacy.. N u r requesting them to waste time with Actors! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Go watch ur fckn EHollywood crap sumwer else..
Yeah and here's hoping that we can get independence once again. It's coming, just a matter of time till Scotland see's a sunrise as an independent nation and the chains around the neck of the unicorn are broken.
Simon, I know this is a little bit out of the norm for the channel, but can we please please get a video on Ross Ulbricht, the Creator of Silk Road and pioneer of online crypto marketplaces. His story is one that in my opinion has been far forgotten as he's gotten a double life sentence + 40 years for essentially what is creating a website.
My family is from Glasgow we got our name after the battle of 1066 where we got a castle from spoils of war and our name changed from Stuarts to Llisles meaning of the isle
Robert the Bruce is my ancestor! To be more specific from James ll, then the Sinclairs they were lords in Scotland then a Sinclair married a commoner from Essex with my last name she was shunned for this action and moved to Nova Scotia in a house where my aunt still lives.
How has there not been a video on Léo Major yet? You know, the one-eyed Canadian soldier that captured an entire german garrison and marched them out by himself in one night
Tom Ireland they probably were Scottish Nationalists and did it to blame unionists. Nationalists are already destroying Scotland. Economics Health Education Covid Why don’t they just destroy it literally, they’re trying every other way.
@@jimmy2k4o there are many things to unpick in your comment, but I'll state this just for you mate. Our covid cases are nowhere near as bad as you'd like to think, the only increase came after English people came up to Scotland bringing it with them. Our healthcare system has saved my life and thousands of others with little funding, the NHS is a blessing on a country that holds Glasgow as it's largest city. I hate the SNP, but as a nationalist it's pretty fucking ignorant to blame nationalists for these things.
@@jimmy2k4o it's a possibility but to me it doesn't seem like the nationalists would do. I agree the SNP are incompetent, as you have listed, but them and their followers are too proud of their Scottish heritage that they would vandalise national monuments so they can scapegoat the unionist movement
this is the first royal video where I see half of the comments section filled with "Am related to the king". Was Rober the Bruce more prolific in sharing his gene pool with the world than all the other kings combined??
Robert the Bruce was a hated and evil man. He murdered his loyalty pledged Scottish king during a ceasefire inside a church. A painting on this act still remains today. As a Cumming and a MacRae I grew up knowing how bad he really was. Only later when there was no real other choice for a king was he "used" as a leader and to be fair not a great one. I wouldn't trust my Prime minister if he killed a President during a ceasefire and the same went for the Scotts. He spent many years in exile due to murder and it nearly cost him everything including his entire family and his birthright.
I know it's idiotic to make that question here, but does anyone know the name of an Italian captain/merchant that fought for Venice (I'm pretty sure it was Venice)? I can't find that episode.thanks in advance
Did some research on numerous ancestry sites an Robert the Bruce one of my blood line relatives. Its crazy, because we were always told that we were of German decent. We do have German in our history but more Scots. Explains my red beard an long. Lol
... it's the House of Stewart. Queen Mary Stewart was sent to France, and had to change her name to Stuart for the sake of the French who don't have a W in their alphabet. She is my greatest grandmother and it hurts what happened to her. GOD she was a wonderful woman and got treated like dirt because of greed and narcissism.
Dude, next time I kill someone I'll just have my buddy absolve me of the crime.... Man, even back in the day, famous people could get away with murder.
I’m surprised Sir James “The Black” Douglas didn’t get a mention in this. He was practically King Bruce’s right hand man, especially after his death where sir James was asked (by the king before his death) to take the kings heart to the holy land to repent for the sins the king felt he had committed.
Can you please do a video on chiune sugihara. The only good hearted Japanese person during World War II. He saved the lives of a lot of Jewish people. Not many people talk about him. It's a shame.
