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Birth:          ABT 1275 
Death:          1356 

Notes
ancestry.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Bruce
Christina Bruce (c. 1278 – 1356/1357), also known as Christina de Brus, was a 
daughter of Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, and her husband, Robert de Brus, jure 
uxoris Earl of Carrick, and a sister of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots. It is presumed 
that she and her siblings were born at Turnberry Castle in Carrick.

Life[edit]

After defeat at the Battle of Methven on 19 June 1306, Robert Bruce headed west to 
the mountains. He sent his second wife, Elizabeth, his daughter Marjorie, his sisters 
Christina and Mary Bruce, and Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan to Kildrummy 
Castle in the north, where his brother Neil could protect them.[1]

When Kildrummy was besieged, the women were forced to flee. Neil Bruce was 
captured and He was taken to Berwick to be hanged, drawn and beheaded. The 
women made it as far as the sanctuary of St Duthac at Tain in Easter Ross. There 
they were captured by a Balliol supporter, Earl William of Ross, who handed them over 
to Edward I’s men.[1]

Christina Bruce was sent to a Gilbertine nunnery at Sixhills in Lincolnshire,[1] while her 
sister Mary and Bruce's supporter Isabella MacDuff, were imprisoned in cages.

She returned to Scotland in an exchange of prisoners in early 1315.

Her first marriage was to Sir Christopher Seton, who was born in 1278 and executed in 
1306. She remarried in 1326 to Sir Andrew Murray, the posthumous child in 1298 of Sir 
Andrew Murray, a joint victor of the battle of Stirling Bridge along with William 
Wallace. Sir Andrew died in 1338.

Christina is sometimes thought to have also married Gartnait, son of Donald, Earl of 
Mar (died 1305). She is never described as a Countess of Mar, however, or even 
described as "of Mar". Moreover, there is no evidence of any familial relationship with 
Gartnait's son and successor, Donald II. Gartnait was instead likely married to an elder 
sister of Christina.[2]

In 1335, during the Second War of Scottish Independence, she commanded the 
garrison of Kildrummy Castle and successfully held out against pro-Balliol forces led by 
David of Strathbogie, prior to their defeat by her husband, Sir Andrew Murray, at the 
Battle of Culblean.

Parents
DE BRUCE Robert (Jul 1243 - BEF 4 Mar 1304)
OF CARRICK Margaret (ABT 1247 - BEF 27 Oct 1292)

Siblings
DE BRUCE Christina (or older sister) (ABT 1275 - 1356)
DE BRUCE Mary (ABT 1280 - ABT 1340)
DE BRUCE Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1280 - AFT Sep 1323)

Marriage To MAR Gartnait (ABT 1272 - Sep 1305)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
MAR Domhnaill (Donald) (ABT 1243 - ABT 1300)
VERCH LLEWELYN Helen (ABT 1230 - )

Children by MAR Gartnait ABT 1272 - Sep 1305
MAR Domhnaill (Donald) (1293 - 11 Aug 1332)

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