Geneology - What's yours?

[gilmore]

...In finding your way back to The Bruce, Erikm, you must actually have found your way into the Bruce line much more recently. Yes?

A descent from Robert the Bruce would not have been found in the or a Bruce line, at least not in a line that descends from him patrilineally. His daughtered out after only one generation, as I recall. His son David died childless, so the Scottish throne was inherited by Robert Stuart, the son of David's sister Margaret.

[ThistleDown]

A descent from Robert the Bruce would not have been found in the or a Bruce line, at least not in a line that descends from him patrilineally. His daughtered out after only one generation, as I recall. His son David died childless, so the Scottish throne was inherited by Robert Stuart, the son of David's sister Margaret.

Just so. I was wondering of Erikm the basis for his suspected descendancy. Robert I (and his brother) had illegitimate children, of course, and there are many collateral Bruce families not descended from Robert I but from his ancestors. See http://genealogics.org/descend.php?p...&generations=6.