Child of the Phoenix

AFTERWORD

The story of Isobel of Buchan and what happened following the siege of Kildrummy Castle is told in Kingdom of Shadows.

Donald, Earl of Mar, was taken as a prisoner to England, where he was held in Bristol Castle, although the records assure us that he was not fettered because he was so young. Later he was brought up at the English court, where he served King Edward II loyally, not returning to Scotland to be restored to his earldom until 1327. In 1332 he was made Regent of Scotland, in the minority of his eight-year-old cousin, King David II.

Donald’s sister, Elyne (the spelling of the name used for Eleyne’s grand-daughter), married Sir John Menteith. Their mother Christian Bruce survived her imprisonment and married for the third time, Andrew Murray of Bothwell. She died about 1357 and was buried in her chapel of the Blessed Virgin of the Garioch.

Although King Robert and Queen Elizabeth had a son, who inherited his father’s kingdom in 1329 as King David II, he died without issue, and it was Eleyne’s great-grandson, the son of Marjorie Bruce and Walter the Steward of Scotland, who next inherited the throne as King Robert II, the first of the Stewart line, in fulfilment of Einion’s prophecy.