John BRUCE

1420 - 1473  (53 years)

• Name	John BRUCE
  Born	1420	Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	5th Baron of Clackmannan
  Died	1473	Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
  Buried	Cambuskenneth Abbey, Cambuskenneth, Stirling, Scotland   [1]
  Person ID	I43262	Main
  Last Modified	24 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	David BRUCE,   b. Abt 1392, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1428, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Mother	Jean STEWART,   b. 1396, Innermeath, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1420  (Age 24 years)
  Married	1420	Innermeath, Perthshire, Scotland
  Family ID	F30500	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth STEWART,   b. 1433, Rosyth, Fife, Scotland ,   d. 20 Oct 1474, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland  (Age 41 years)
  Children	+ 1. Matilda “Maud” BRUCE,   b. 1449, Clackmannan Castle, Clackmannanshire, Scotland ,   d. Aft 1472, Pickering, Yorkshire, England  (Age > 24 years) + 2. Robert BRUCE,   d. ?
  Last Modified	26 May 2023
  Family ID	F30499	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Buried - - Cambuskenneth Abbey, Cambuskenneth, Stirling, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  John Bruce, the eldest son, succeeded his father, before 23 May 1422, when he appears as a witness to a notarial instrument executed at Dunfermline; on 28 March 1428, he ratified and confirmed the charter of 2 May 1389 granted by his grandfather Robert De Bruys of these lands to which he had acquired right as heir to his father. He resigned his estates of Clackmannan and Rait in favor of David Bruis, his son and heir, reserving his own liferent and a reasonable terce to Elizabeth Stewart, his wife, during her lifetime, at Edinburgh, 26 March 1473, in which year he died, having married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir David Stewart of Rosyth, by whom he had two sons: 1. Sir David, who succeeded. 2. Robert, ancestor of the Bruces of Cultmaludie in Perthshire, and of Muness in Zetland.

  
  

• Sources

  [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 196111007.