Lochranza Castle, Isle of Arran (Scotland) my old watercolour reconstruction. Site held by MacSween & Stewart families. King Robert The Bruce landed here in 1306 returning from Ireland to claim the Scots Throne.

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In 1306 Comyn was stabbed to death at Greyfriars Church by Robert The Bruce. Kirkpatrick made sure Comyn was dead. Costumes for Comyn, Kirkpatrick & Bruce from Nigel Tranter's 'The Bruce' film project in 1991. Nigel suggested Seton Church as a Greyfriars mock-up for this scene.

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“And they have saints, in the deep, in the starless dark?”
“Aye, child, but they are stranger saints than we see on the surface, for sure.”

There’s an important theological distinction between the Starless Dark and the Starry Dark. I do not have space in this margin to-

(1306)

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Giotto da Bondone, “Natività di Gesù”, 1304-1306, Cappella degli Scrovegni a Padova.

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Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ)
-1306, Giotto

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19 June 1306 - Battle of Methven

King Robert the Bruce is defeated at the battle of Methven by an English army commanded by Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.(1/3)

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