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Historical person
Robert II was king of Scots from 1371 to 1390 and the first monarch of the Stewart dynasty. A grandson of Robert the Bruce through Marjorie Bruce, he had served as guardian of the kingdom during David II’s captivity.
His reign relied heavily on an extensive family network of sons, daughters and regional lordships. In old age, authority increasingly passed to powerful sons, exposing tensions that would continue under Robert III.
In Nigel Tranter’s Lords of Misrule, In fourteenth-century Scotland, the new House of Stewart holds the throne through its descent from Robert the Bruce, but the dynasty is divided by jealousy and rivalry.
Series
Beginning in the later fourteenth century and continuing into the troubled reign of Robert III, the House of Stewart Trilogy follows Scotland’s first Stewart kings as they struggle to turn a disputed inheritance into a durable dynasty. The crown has come through Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert the…
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