Tour Scotland Video Coronation Robert The Bruce Window Scoon and Perth No 3 Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the Coronation of the King Robert The Bruce stained glass window in Lodge Scoon and Perth No 3 on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This window window shows the coronation of King Robert the Bruce in Scone, for the second time, on March 29 1306. The explanation for the two coronations is that, following the murder of Red Comyn in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce came north as quickly as possible and was crowned in Scone by Bishop Lamberton of St Andrews on March 27. Two days later, however, Isabella, the Countess of Buchan, shown in the panel holding the circlet of gold, appeared in Scone, claiming the hereditary right to crown the King of Scots. She was not a woman to be ignored and so, as most of Bruce’s party were still in Scone, the ritual was performed again on March 29. Isabella paid dearly for her devotion. After the defeat of Bruce at Methven a few weeks later, she was captured and imprisoned in a cage in Berwick Castle for four years. The window was by artist David Gauld, born 1863, died 1936, one of the highly regarded Glasgow Boys.

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