Tour Scotland Video Bruce Fountain Falkland Village Fife

Tour Scotland video of the Bruce Fountain on the High Street on ancestry visit to the village of Falkland by Falkland in Fife, Scotland. One of the first scenes for Outlander was filmed in the picturesque town of Falkland, which substituted for 1940s Inverness. The Bruce Fountain is where Claire comes across the ghost of Jamie.

The surname Bruce was first found in Yorkshire, England, where Robert de Bruis was granted ninety four manors. His son Robert de Bruys traveled north with Earl David of Huntingdon who later became King of Scotland and was granted large estates in Annandale, Scotland about 1150. Robert de Bruys had two sons: Robert and William. Robert, who became known as Robert the Bruce, would later claim the crown of Scotland and unite Scotland against the English. He defeated the English army soundly in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. As a result of this battle Scotland gained its independence from England as declared in the Treaty of Northampton.

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