His mother was by all accounts a formidable woman who, legend would have it, kept Robert Bruce's father captive until he agreed to marry her.

Robert Bruce's reign also witnessed some diplomatic achievements.

When the Clydesdale Bank discontinued £ 1 banknotes, Robert The Bruce's portrait was moved onto the bank's £ 20 banknote in 1990 and it has remained there to date.

* 1948: In the live-action Disney movie " So Dear to My Heart ", a cartoon sequence portrays Robert the Bruce's legendary encounter with the determined spider, as well as his subsequent victory.

* 2010-2012: Romance writer Monica McCarty wrote a series of books ( the Highland Guard Novels ) about Robert the Bruce's legendary secret Islemen guard and Bruce's guerilla warfare tactics.

After Robert the Bruce's death, King David II was too young to rule, so the guardianship was assumed by Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray.

The Scottish victory was complete and, although full English recognition of Scottish independence was not achieved until more than ten years later, Robert Bruce's position as king was greatly strengthened by the outcome.

* Armstrong, Pete ( illustrated by Graham Turner ), Bannockburn 1314: Robert Bruce's Great Victory, Osprey Publishing, 2002 ISBN 1-85532-609-4

They remained standing until Robert the Bruce's recapture of Perth in 1312.

Robert Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns 1212-1314, p. 158.

Bruce's Cave is named after Robert the Bruce, also known as Robert I of Scotland: it was here that he was said to have seen the famous spider which is described in Cultural depictions of spiders.

Robert Burns acknowledged his debt to Harry, incorporating the following lines from Harry's Wallace in his own poem Robert Bruce's Address to his Army at Bannockburn ( Scots, wha hae wi ' Wallace bled ):

The Guardian's inactivity contrasts sharply with Robert Bruce's swift response to the siege of 1319.

Pearson and Birrell also wrote to Dr Robert Anderson while he was publishing his British Poets, pointing out Bruce's claims.

After Robert Bruce's victory over the Earl of Buchanan, Philip, the Forester of Platane, together with some of his friends raised ladders against the wall and, climbing over, surprised the garrison and slew them.

More likely he contemplated a defection to the side of Robert the Bruce ; rumour had it he even planned marrying one of Bruce's daughters.

King Edward was furious when David de Moravia, Bishop of Moray, joined Scotland's cause with Bruce, and Edward appealed to the Pope who excommunicated the bishop, thus removing papal protection, causing him to flee to Orkney, then to Norway, only to return after Robert Bruce's victories against the English.

) ( 2002 ) Robert the Bruce's Irish wars: the invasions of Ireland 1306-1329, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-1974-9

He would subsequently be consecrated in the summer of 1299 as Bishop of Moray by Pope Boniface VIII, and became one of the staunchest supporters of King Robert Bruce's kingship.

Following Robert the Bruce's victory at Bannockburn in 1314, the castle provided shelter for several English nobles.

In 1868, four years after his death, Robert Bruce's claim to the peerage was recognised by the House of Lords, and so his son became sixth Lord Balfour of Burleigh on the reversal of the title's attainder by Act of Parliament in 1869.

Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.

* 1863 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility ( b. 1782 )

* Bales, Robert F. " Attitudes toward Drinking in the Irish Culture ".

The Graves ' disease was named after Irish doctor Robert James Graves, who described a case of goiter with exophthalmos in 1835.

In 1662, the noted Irish physicist and chemist Robert Boyle performed a series of experiments employing a J-shaped glass tube, which was sealed on one end.

The Irish and Highland Harps by Robert Bruce Armstrong is an excellent book describing these ancient harps.

* 1627 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist ( d. 1691 )

* 1941 – Robert Bradford, Irish politician ( d. 1981 )

* 1988 – Robert Sheehan, Irish actor

* 1922 – Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

Flaherty was one of seven children born to prospector Robert Henry Flaherty ( an Irish Protestant ) and Susan Klockner ( a German Roman Catholic ); he was sent to Upper Canada College in Toronto for his education.

Among them were the astronomer Tycho Brahe, the chemical physician Paracelsus, the Irish philosopher Robert Boyle, and the English philosophers Thomas Browne and Isaac Newton.

The Widney Alumni House, the campus ' first building The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Widney, who helped secure donations from several figures in early Los Angeles history: a Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs, an Irish Catholic former-Governor, John Gately Downey, and a German Jewish banker, Isaias W. Hellman.

* 1934 Man of Aran by Robert J. Flaherty ( Irish Free State )

At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.

* October 13 – Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet ( b. 1702 )

** Robert Bradford, Irish footballer and politician ( d. 1981 )

** Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army.

* April 21 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility ( b. 1782 )

* March 13 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility ( d. 1863 )

* November 14 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer and politician ( b. 1941 )

* November 24 – Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

* November 24 – Robert Erskine Childers, Irish novelist and nationalist ( executed ) ( b. 1870 )