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Robert the Bruce plaque

Commemorative plaque
Robert the Bruce plaque
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This commemorative plaque records: ROBERTUS DEI GRATIA REX SCOTORUM This plaque was placed here to commemorate the sepulture here within the ruined bounds of Saint Serf's Parish Church, Little Kirkton, of the embalmed viscera from the body of King Robert 'The Bruce' on or about the third week of June 1329. The dying monarch requested that his heart be taken to Jerusalem by a Knight Templar in fulfilment of a sacred vow he had made earlier in his reign to go on a crusade to the Holy Land in Palestine. On the same day and at the hour appointed for the entombment of the King in Dunfermline Abbey, a simultaneous service of sepulture was conducted within the precincts of this venerable edifice.
King Robert the Bruce reigned as King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329 and is remembered for securing Scottish independence through his victory over England at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.

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