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- Daughter of King Robert the Bruce and Isabel of Mar.
At the age of twelve, Marjorie, along with her stepmother Elizabeth,
Mary (Bruce) Campbell, Christian Bruce and the Countess of Buchan were
captured by the English in 1306. Marjorie was put into a cage of wood
and housed in the Tower of London. Orders were given that she was not
to converse with anyone but the constable of the Tower. Later, the
sentence was revoked by King Edward I and Marjorie was sent to a
nunnery at Walton. She was released along with Christian Bruce and her
stepmother the Queen in 1314.
On 2 March 1316, Princess Marjorie, who was pregnant and expecting
birth in the spring, was thrown from her horse and killed. Conscious
of the royal succession, the surgeons cut open her abdomen and
delivered a son from her dead body. That baby, crippled for life from
the injury of his birth, would, fifty-four years later, become Robert
II, King of Scots, the first of the royal line of Stewarts.
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1296 - 1316 (20 years)