* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence

* The Mackenzie Poltergeist ( 1998 ) – Famed for haunting Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh.

* February 10 – before the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murdered John Comyn, his leading political rival sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence

* William Adam Mausoleum, Greyfriars Kirkyard ( 1753 – 55 )

Jan Bondeson stated " It won't ever be possible to debunk the story of Greyfriars Bobby – he's a living legend, the most faithful dog in the world, and bigger than all of us.

He was the Warden of Greyfriars ( 1993 – 2004 )( Honorary Fellow 2004 ) and tutor and lecturer in History and Doctrine in the Faculty of Theology.

However, one hall, Greyfriars ( 1224 — refounded 1910 ), closed at the end of the academic year 2007 – 08, as the Franciscan order which ran and funded it could no longer afford the expense.

She served as Convener of the Committee on Church and Nation of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1996 – 2000, as well as Session Clerk at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh.

1455 – 1458: Greyfriars ( Franciscan ) friary is founded

After 1940, new Greyfriars stories by Hamilton continued to appear in book form, published initially by Charles Skilton and later by Cassells, in a series which continued until Hamilton's death in 1961 ( although some of the novels appeared posthumously even later ); and in a television series, also written by Hamilton, which ran from 1951 – 61 on the BBC.

Led by University of Leicester Archaeological Services ( ULAS ), experts set out to locate the Greyfriars site and discover whether his remains were still interred.

Greyfriars occupied a unique position in Oxford, in that its University Hall and Franciscan friary were part of the same institution and coexisted on the same site — however, the friars were not usually members of the academic hall ( though this was not without exception ), nor were the students actually affiliated to the friary ( the two groups did, however, mingle, most notably at mealtimes ).

No traces of the Greyfriars or Franciscan dwellings remain in the parish of Kirkcudbright.

Much of the stone used in its construction may have been taken from the demolition of the Franciscan monastery of Greyfriars.

To the north of the street are the ruins of Christ Church Greyfriars on the site of a medieval Franciscan monastery.

Christ Church Greyfriars had its origins in the conventual church of a Franciscan monastery, the name " Greyfriars " being a reference to the grey habits worn by Franciscan monks.

* Greyfriars, Canterbury, earliest English Franciscan friary

Dressed in a Franciscan habit, she was buried at Christ Church Greyfriars in London, a church to which she had generously endowed.

His destruction of the church possessions in Elgin was complete — as well as the cathedral, the monastery of the Greyfriars, St Giles parish church and the Hospital of Maison Dieu were all put to flame.

Later, a stained glass panel, previously in the nearby Greyfriars monastery, was inserted in the front window of the inn showing the king and queen's individual coats of arms.

* Greyfriars, Gloucester, the ruins of a monastery, also a street named after the same

The Pope had recognised Edward I of England's claim to overlordship of Scotland in 1305 and Bruce was excommunicated by the Pope for murdering John Comyn before the altar in Greyfriars Church in Dumfries in 1306.

Another Edinburgh resident in the past, and arguably its most famous, known throughout the world, was Greyfriars Bobby.

The small Skye Terrier reputedly kept vigil over his deceased master's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard for 14 years in the 1870s and 80s, giving rise to a heart-warming story of canine devotion which plays its part in attracting visitors to the city.

On 10 February 1306, Bruce participated in the murder of Comyn, at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries.

Richard's naked body was then exposed, possibly in the collegiate foundation of the Annunciation of Our Lady, before being buried at Greyfriars Church, Leicester.

According to one tradition, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries his body was thrown into the nearby River Soar, although other evidence suggests that a memorial stone was visible in 1612, in a garden built on the site of Greyfriars.

The exact location was then lost, owing to more than 500 years of subsequent development, until the archaeological investigations of 2012 ( see the Archaeological investigation section ) revealed the site of the garden and of Greyfriars church.

On 5 September 2012 the excavators announced that they had identified the Greyfriars church, and two days later that they had identified the location of Robert Herrick's garden where the memorial to Richard III stood in the early 17th century.

According to Barbour, Comyn betrayed his agreement with Bruce to King Edward I, and when Bruce arranged a meeting for 10 February 1306 with Comyn in the Chapel of Greyfriars Monastery in Dumfries and accused him of treachery, they came to blows.

Regardless, for Bruce the ' die was cast ' at the moment in Greyfriars and he had no alternative except to become king or a fugitive, Bruce asserted his claim to the Scottish crown and began his campaign by force for the independence of Scotland.

This gesture was to make up for his failure to go on crusade during his lifetime and atone for his sins, not least the sacrilegious murder of John Comyn in the Greyfriars church, Dumfries.

Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel died on 14 March 1470, and was buried with adequate splendor in Christ Church Greyfriars, near Newgate Prison.

His grave was lost when Greyfriars was dissolved by Henry VIII.

Although born and dying in Greyfriars Parish, Edinburgh, he is almost solely linked to Dundee.

He died penniless in 1902 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh.

On 10 February 1306, during a meeting between Bruce and Comyn, the two surviving claimants for the Scottish throne, Bruce quarrelled with and killed John Comyn at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries.

The most irreconcilable of Bruce's Scottish enemies also came: Ingram de Umfraville, a former Guardian of Scotland, and his kinsman the Earl of Angus, as well as others of the MacDougalls, MacCanns and Sir John Comyn of Badenoch, the only son of the Red Comyn, who was born and raised in England and was now returning to Scotland to avenge his father's killing by Bruce at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries in 1306.

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The Scottish Reformation also played a big role in the town with the sacking of the Houses of the Greyfriars and Blackfriars, after a sermon given by John Knox in St John's Kirk in 1559.

An inflamed mob quickly destroyed the altars in the kirk, and attacked the Houses of the Greyfriars and Blackfriars, and the Carthusian Priory.

A tomb-chest form similar to others in Greyfriars Kirkyard.

Joan was buried, as requested in her will, at the Greyfriars, the site of the present hospital, in Stamford in Lincolnshire, beside her first husband.