Robert the Bruce dies at Cardross
June 1329
Worn out by a lifetime of war and possibly leprosy, the Scottish king died on the Clyde at fifty-four. He asked Sir James Douglas to carry his heart on crusade against the Moors of Granada, a final gesture of chivalric piety. Douglas obliged and died fighting in Andalusia, the embalmed heart in a casket around his neck.
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