The Scottish Rebellion against Robert the Bruce: Exiles and Traitors

Displaced Scottish nobles assembled in 1331, igniting a fragile struggle that reshaped Scotland’s independence.

July of 1331 saw the gathering of a most unusual army; its billets scattered across the modest ports of Yorkshire’s eastern coast. Its purpose, the invasion of Scotland and the overthrow of the yet inchoate line of Bruce kings. This was a task monumentally disproportionate in scale to the tiny army that sought to undertake it. It was a goal which they would ultimately fail to reali...