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.
In context
Also in 1329 (4 other events on record)
- Muhammad bin Tughlaq moves the capital to Daulatabad · South Asia · Politics
- Battle of Pelekanon: Ottomans defeat Byzantium in the field · Middle East · War
- Friar Odoric of Pordenone returns from China · Europe · Exploration
- Pope John XXII condemns Eckhart's propositions · Europe · Religion
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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