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Robert I

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

Robert I

Whereas we and you and our people and your people, free since ancient times, share the same national ancestry and are urged to come together more eagerly and joyfully in friendship by a common language and by common custom, we have sent you our beloved kinsman, the bearers of this letter, to negotiate with you in our name about permanently strengthening and maintaining inviolate the special friendship between us and you, so that with God's will our nation may be able to recover her ancient liberty.

He was able to obtain some allies, and sent his younger brother, Edward, to conquer Ireland and crown himself King of Ireland. He was not popular with many Irish however and totally resisted by the English. He was killed there at Dundalk, See {639441}.

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Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart am Brusach), was King of Scots from 1306 to his death in 1329. Robert led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England. He fought successfully during his reign to restore Scotland to an independent kingdom and is regarded in Scotland as a national hero.

ROBERT I

(Robert the Bruce)