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.

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.

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.

The Friars had a long and esteemed history in Oxford, listing many famous alumni, including the English statesman, Robert Grosseteste, also a theologian and Bishop of Lincoln, who became head of Greyfriars, Master of the School of Oxford from 1208, and the first Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

The final resting place of John Porteous in Greyfriars kirkyard had for more than two hundred years been marked by a small square stone engraved with the single letter " P " and the date 1736.

Mortimer's lover Isabella had buried his body at Greyfriars in Coventry following his hanging.

He lays claim to owning " Poppers ' Island " on the Sark, and had it placed Out of Bounds, much to the chagrin of Greyfriars fellows who liked to picnic upon it.

Following the closure of The Magnet in 1940, Hamilton had little work ; but he became known as the author of the Greyfriars stories following a newspaper interview he gave to the London Evening Standard.

In the case of the friaries at Greyfriars and Whitefriars, the priors had fled before the arrival of the royal commissioners, and at Whitefriars a succession of departing priors had plundered the friary of its valuables.

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.

Back in Germany, he first went to live at Altona, but next year he was called to superintend the famous Greyfriars Gymnasium (), which had been formed at Berlin by Frederick the Great.

The other is that the friary of Greyfriars, next to Pilgrim Street, had holy relics of St Francis, the founder of the order, and pilgrims passed up Pilgrim Street to visit them.

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

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.

Greyfriars, situated on the Iffley Road in East Oxford, was one of the smallest constituent Halls of the University of Oxford in England.

This is one of the few remnants of a house of the Greyfriars to have survived in Scotland.

Dick Lancaster joins the Greyfriars Sixth form in 1931 ( Magnets # 1209 to # 1219 ) and immediately becomes one of the most popular men in the school: handsome, easy going and a fine cricketer.

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.

However, one legacy of the scheme was the future segregation of office and retail development, with the west end of Newport Road as the principal office area with secondary concentrations on Churchill Way, Greyfriars Road and Westgate Street.

Robert Lee, then minister of Old Greyfriars, led a movement to change the worship, introducing the first post-Reformation stained glass windows in a Presbyterian church in Scotland, and also one of the first organs.

Four ministers and one elder of Greyfriars Kirk have been Moderators of the General Assembly:

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

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.

* most of Greyfriars library

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 ).

The College most closely linked with the Hall was Balliol College, due to a long-standing tradition of sporting links, but Greyfriars students were tutored at a wide number of the University's colleges at some point or another.

In 2011, after five years of research, Jan Bondeson published Greyfriars Bobby: The Most Faithful Dog in the World, the most detailed biography of Bobby to date.

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.

Fishy is a rampant capitalist, who makes the most of his limited opportunities for free enterprise at Greyfriars, often with moneymaking schemes that come unstuck.

Furthermore, most of the 1, 683 issues of The Magnet were reprinted in hardback form by publisher W Howard Baker, under his Howard Baker and Greyfriars Book Club imprints, between 1969 and 1990.

The most famous Greyfriars character was Billy Bunter, of the Remove.

Furthermore, most of the 1, 683 issues of The Magnet were reprinted in hardback form by publisher W Howard Baker, under his Howard Baker and Greyfriars Book Club imprints, between 1969 and 1990.

Amongst the buildings demolished to make way for the new frontage of Marischal College at the turn of the 20th century, was the Greyfriars collegiate church, built in 1532 and incorporated as part of the College in 1593.

Robertson is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh and he now gives his name to the nearby William Robertson Wing of the Old Medical School buildings at the University of Edinburgh on Teviot Place, home to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

Given the depopulation of Edinburgh's Old Town in the early part of the 20th century, many neighbouring church buildings were closed and their congregations united with Greyfriars, including the New North Church and Lady Yester's Church.

* Greyfriars, Oxford

He was born about 1200 in the diocese of Bath, and educated at Oxford ( Greyfriars ) under the famous Grosseteste.

Category: Alumni of Greyfriars, Oxford

The Capuchin Order states that it will continue to exist at Greyfriars in Oxford and the premises will continue to operate as a friary ; the order will maintain responsibility for the parish.

Greyfriars was also influential in the Oxford Law Society, the Conservative Association, the Dramatic Society, and the Indie Music Society, as well as rowing, hockey, rugby, tennis and table tennis.

As with all Oxford colleges, Greyfriars ' student community was a JCR, run by an annually elected committee usually consisting of a President, Secretary, Treasurer and various other Officers as necessary.

Category: Wardens of Greyfriars, Oxford

Mark Elvins ( 1939 — ), Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford

* The Reverend Mark Turnham Elvins, OFMCap ( b. 1939 ); acting Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford 2007 / 8

* Greyfriars, Oxford, a former Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford