Robert Bruce, 3rd Baron of Clackmannan

Sir Robert Bruce, 3rd Baron of Clackmannan & Rate (died c. 1405) was the son of Sir Sir Robert Bruce, 2nd Baron of Clackmannan & Rate and Isabel Stewart of Fife

Fife

Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...

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Robert Bruce was born into the Scottish aristocracy in Clackmannan

Clackmannan

Clackmannan District 1975-96From 1975, Clackmannan was the name of a small town and local government district in the Central region of Scotland, corresponding to the traditional county of Clackmannanshire, which was Scotland's smallest...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. He married the daughter of John Scrimgeour of Dudhope, by whom he had at least three children:

David Bruce, who succeeded his father;
Edward Bruce, who married Agnes, the daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Airth of Airth;
James Bruce
James Bruce (bishop)
James Bruce was a 15th century cleric who was bishop of Dunkeld, Chancellor of Scotland, and bishop of Glasgow. He was the son of one Robert Bruce, a middling landowner in Clackmannanshire. He was rector of Kilmany , and Archdeacon of Dunkeld...

, later Bishop of Dunkeld
Bishop of Dunkeld
The Bishop of Dunkeld is the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Dunkeld, one of the largest and more important of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th century cleric named Cormac...

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Sources

http://www.brucefamily.com/lineage.htm#clackmannan

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