Includes pictures Includes accounts of some of the most Famous battles, including at Stirling and Bannockburn Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Includes a table of contents From their very beginnings, England and Scotland fought each other.
They also held resentments dating back to that disputed inheritance against the Balliol clan and their supporters.
That older Bruce had been one of the two leading competitors in the Great Cause, and the family still held ambitions toward the throne.
A member of one of Scotland\'s leading noble families, Bruce inherited his grandfather\'s claim to the right to be King of the Scots.
Robert the Bruce has become a figure of Scottish national legend, renowned as the man who threw off the shackles of English oppression, but prior to 1306, this Anglo-Scottish nobleman did little to cover himself in glory or to earn a reputation as a hero of the national cause.
Though it\'s often forgotten today, Robert the Bruce was a bit shiftier, if only out of necessity.
It still resonates in the Scottish national memory, all the more so following its memorable but wildly inaccurate depiction in the 1995 film Braveheart, which had Scottish audiences cheering in cinemas.
After Edward\'s death, the English were eventually beaten back at the Famous Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, and thus the early 14th century was a period featuring some of Scotland\'s greatest national heroes, including William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
Out of all of this, the most bitterly remembered conflict is Edward I\'s invasion during the late 13th century.
Every century from the 11th to the 16th was colored by such violence, and there were periods when not a decade went by without some act of violence marring the peace.
Emerging as unified nations from the early medieval period, their shared border and inter-related aristocracy created endless causes of conflict, from local raiders known as border reivers to full blown Wars between their monarchies.
Includes pictures Includes accounts of some of the most Famous battles, including at Stirling and Bannockburn Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Includes a table of contents From their very beginnings, England and Scotland fought each other
