SCOTLAND, David II of
1324 - 1371 (46 years)Set As Default Person
-
Name SCOTLAND, David II of Birth 5 Mar 1324 Gender Male Differentiator Son and heir of Robert the Bruce Royalty & Nobility King of Scotland Death 22 Feb 1371 Patriarch & Matriarch BRUCE, Robert the, b. 11 Jul 1274 d. 7 Jun 1329 (Age 54 years) (Father)Person ID I17642 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father BRUCE, Robert the, b. 11 Jul 1274 d. 7 Jun 1329 (Age 54 years) Relationship natural Family ID F12943 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family TOWER, Joan of the, b. 5 Jul 1321 d. 7 Sep 1362 (Age 41 years) Marriage 17 Jul 1328 - She was seven years old and he was four at the time of their marriage.
Family ID F12942 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
-
Photos Scotland_penny_802002_(obverse)
Albums Royal Connections (3)
When you find a Gateway Ancestor in your family tree, it is almost impossible not to go down a rabbit hole of ancestry leading to connections with countless ancestors of the royal and noble classes. These lines have been extensively researched and documented by historians, so it is really just a matter of following the line. I've spent countless hours engrossed in the stories these royal lines have uncovered. In this album, I will link to ancestors who were members of the Royal class. Royalty refers to the ruling monarch and their immediate family. This includes kings, queens, princes, and princesses. The monarch is typically the highest authority in the land and has the power to grant titles of nobility.
Keep in mind that it is not necessarily unusual to be descended from royalty. After all, many of these connections go back to my 25th great grandparents and beyond. Theoretically, we have 67,108,864 sets of 25th great grandparents (In reality, due to a phenomenon known as pedigree collapse, where ancestors appear in the family tree multiple times in different generations due to intermarriage within a community, the actual number of unique 25th great-grandparents a person has is likely to be much lower). With this many, it might be more unusual NOT to descend from royalty. However, what makes our ancestry so unique is that we can TRACE it that far back, person to person to person. Since my fascination with our ancestry lies in my curiosity about the stories of the individual people, this is beyond compelling to me. It is like getting lost in a series of medieval novels in which I have an actual connection to the characters. It brings history to life.