Born about in Scotland
Ancestors 
Daughter of Robert (Bruce) Bruce First King of Scots
and [mother unknown]
Sister of
Neil Bruce, Marjorie Bruce [half], Margaret (Bruce) Glen, Robert (Bruce) de Brus, Margaret Bruce [half], Christina (Bruce) of Carrick, Matilda Bruce [half], John Bruce [half] and David (Bruce) King of Scots [half]
Wife of
Walter Oliphant Knt.
— married
before 1364 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 47
in Scotland
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Biography
King Robert I de Brus "The Bruce" had several illegitimate sons and daughters whose names appear in the records. Elizabeth is one of them. She is given as marrying Sir Walter Oliphant of Gask.[1] Anderson states she was King Robert's youngest daughter.[2]
That she was married before 1364 (possibly some years before) is set forth in charters confirmed by the Crown on 11th January that year to Sir Walter Oliphant and his spouse Lady Elizabeth Bruce.[3][4] Dalrymple's Annals cites a charter in the custody of Oliphant of Gask, bearing the date 11 January 1364, whereby King David erects the lands of Gask into a baony "...Dilecto et fideli sui Waltero Olyfant et Elisabethæ sponsae suæ, dilecttae sorori nostrae." [5] That regrants were made to Sir Walter without Elizabeth, in 1378, may indicate his wife's death before this date.
Research Notes
Sources
- ↑ Scottish Kings - A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005-1625 by Sir Archibald H. Dunbar, Bt., Edinburgh, 1899, p.142, citing The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol.1, Preface, p.cxxx and note 5.
- ↑ The Scottish Nation by William Anderson, Edinburgh, 1867, vol.viii, p.263.
- ↑ Genealogical Collections concerning families in Scotland by Walter Macfarlane 1750-51, edited by James T. Clark, Keeper of the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, 1900, Scottish History Society, vol.ii, pps.97-124, 'The Genealogy of the Oliphants'.
- ↑ Anderson, 1867, p.263
- ↑ Dalrymple, Sir David. Annals of Scotland. Edinburgh: A. Constable (1819), vol. 2, p. 165, fn..
- The Scots Peerage : Founded On Wood's Ed. Of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage Of Scotland; Containing An Historical And Genealogical Account Of The Nobility Of That Kingdom : Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931 : Free Download, Borrow, And Streaming : Internet Archive". 2020. Internet Archive.Elizabeth de Brus, Vol I, pg 8
- date of birth/death: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22119552
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The error of her legitimacy needs to corrected. Clearly by the charter, David II repeated addressed her as "our beloved sister". Sad Dalrymple never corrected his mistake when it was proven and left history to keep repeating his error.
Jen