SCOTLAND’S ‘UNCROWNED’ KING, JAMES I

By 1406, a century had passed since Robert the Bruce was crowned Robert I, King of Scots. Yet, if he’d known that his great, great grandson was being held captive by the English monarch and would remain uncrowned for nearly two decades, he would no doubt have spun in his tomb. In the years following Robert I’s death in 1329, the fledgling Houses of first Bruce and then Stewart had been plagued by internal power struggles and a series of brief reigns curtailed by a mixture of early deaths and late ascendancies. These had successively denied David II (last Bruce ruler), Robert II (first Stewart ruler) and Robert III the chance to fully assert their authority.

WEARY ROBERT III

Robert III’s reign, which began in 1390