Roðberht I Scotta Cyning

Roðberht I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), se eac hatte Roðberht se Bruce, was Scotta Cyning fram 1306 oþ his deaþ in 1329. He læd Scotland in þæm Forma Scyttiscan Syndrung Gewinne witð Engla rice. Sigefull wæs Roðberht in his cynedom and gesundrode Scotland fram Englandes rice.

Roðberht wæs of rihtfæderencynn fram Dauid I Cyning: his feowerþafæder wæs Dauid Eorl of Huntadune and Dauides ealdfæder wæs Dauid I Cyning. Roðberhtes ealdfæder, Roðberht Brus .u. Hlaford of Annandæle, wæs onspreca in þæm micel flite for Scotlandes cynestol in þæm "Miclan Flite".

Swa Eorl of Carrice fultumode Roðberht his cynnes crafung to Scotlandes cynestol and he feaht in Willelm Wallis wiðersæcce wið Eadweard I Engla Cyning. In 1298 wæs he asteald swa Scotlandes Weard mid his geþindan Iohannes Comyn III of Badenoch, and mid Willelme Lambartun, Bisceop of Sctes Andreas, Roðberht alet his scir in 1300 because of his quarrels with Comyn and the apparently imminent restoration of Iohannes Balliol to the Scottish throne. After submitting to Edward I in 1302 and returning to "the king's peace", Roðberht inherited his family's claim to the Scottish throne upon his father's death.

In 1306 myrþrode Roðberht Iohannes Comyn and for þissum mandæde amansumode hine Clemens V Papa. Noðylæs Roðberht Wishart Bisceop of Glasgwe geaf Roðberhte alísendness eftsona. Roðberht wæs gehalgod swa Scotta Cyning on  1306.

Eadweard I Engla Cyning for wiþ þone niw cyning and afliemde his þreat æt Meðfen Beadwe, Be niede forfleah Roðberht an winter. In 1307 gewonn Roðberht sige wiþ Englisc fyrd æt Ludunhylle and æfter þisse wolde his wigan herigian Englisc werodas ofer þæm rice, and eac feahten Roðberhtes geþindan in hiera gefestnissum.

Æfter þissum þinge forðferde Eadweard I Cyning and his sunu, Eadweard II fang to rice.

In 1309 heald Roðberht his first witenagemot. Sigefull wæs he æt sæcce in manifeladum beadwum betwuh 1310 and 1314 þe his weald wæs ofer Scotlandes micum dæle and his mæste guð wæs at Bannocburnan in 1314, þæræt oferdraf Roðberht mær Englisc here and Scotlande wæs gesundrod fram Engla rice. Ægter his sige æt Banocburnan onswog Roðberht Cyning Englalandes norðerna scira and eac sende he his agan broðor to anwadenne Irland.

Giet becwæð Eadweard II his agnum flit for Scotlandes ealdordom. In 1320, Scotlandes hlafordas swuteloden þone Aberoþic Gebann and sende hine to Iohannes XXII Papa, þærin hie geseðden  þe Roðberht beon hiere rihtanwealda.

In 1327 wæs Eadweard II besetted and his sunu Eadweard III wæs Engla Cyning: in his cynedom atrahtnoden begen ricu frið be thare the Edinburg–Norþamtun Foremæle in 1328.

Roðberht I forþferde in Seremonaðe 1329 and his ierfa wæs his sunu, Dauid II.

Roðberhtes lic is gebyrgen in Dunfermlin Mynstre, hwilum his heort wæs setted in Melros Mynster, and his þaerm in Sctes Serfes Cirican in Dunbartun.

Dauid Roðberhting beweddod Eadweardes Cyninges dohtor, Iohanne and heo him bar nan bearn. Mariorie, Roðberhtes dohtor, beweddod Waldere Stigweard .ui. Heah Stigweard, and of hiere gebedscipe com an cild, Roðberht II Scotta Cyning, an fram him geleodaþ eall cyninges of Scotlande and of Breten siððan him.

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