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Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan

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Lady Buchan was imprisoned in this cage for four years, then moved to the Carmelite friary at Berwick. This was not necessarily a humanitarian move; it is suggested that by this stage Bruce was gaining support, his female relatives were potentially valuable hostages, and the English did not want
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them to die of ill-treatment. The last clear mention of Lady Buchan is of her being transferred again in 1313, her eventual fate being uncertain. Most of Bruce's female relatives returned to Scotland in early 1315, when they were exchanged for English noblemen captured after the
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with these instructions: "Let her be closely confined in an abode of stone and iron made in the shape of a cross, and let her be hung up out of doors in the open air at Berwick, that both in life and after her death, she may be a spectacle and eternal reproach to travellers."
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the day after the coronation of Robert the Bruce in March 1306. However, the Bruce agreed to be crowned for a second time the day after, as otherwise some would see the ceremony as irregular, not being performed by a MacDuff.
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by Brenda Joyce. The heroine of the novel (Lady Margaret Comyn) is the fictional niece of Isabella's husband and her friend. Isabella's fate is the same.
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in June 1306, so he sent Isabella and his female relatives north, but they were betrayed to the English by
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According to tradition, the ceremony of crowning the monarch was performed by a representative of
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She is also a character in the series of books written by Romance writer Monica McCarty (the
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Novels). Isabella MacDuff is the main character in the 4th book of the series titled
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The Countess of Buchan with other War of Independence notables from frieze by
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Scottish noblewoman, figure in the Wars of Scottish Independence
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She is a character in the 2013 historical romance novel
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Scottish people of the Wars of Scottish Independence
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Index


Robert the Bruce
Edinburgh Castle
Wars of Scottish Independence
Donnchadh III, Earl of Fife
The 6th Earl of Hertford
John Comyn, 3rd Earl of Buchan
Countess
Buchan
Robert the Bruce
John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch
Greyfriars Kirk
Dumfries
Scottish Wars of Independence
Clan MacDuff
Scone
Battle of Methven
Uilleam II, Earl of Ross
Edward I of England
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Battle of Bannockburn
Mary Bruce
Roxburgh Castle

William Brassey Hole
Scottish National Gallery
Steeleye Span
Back in Line
Nigel Tranter
Outlaw King

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