Sir Robert Bruce, 3rd Baron of Clackmannan & Rate (died c. 1405)Gordon A. C. MacGregor, ''Bruce of Cultmalundy'', in ''The Red Book of Perthshire'' (Perthshire Heritage Trust, 2006) was the son of Sir Robert Bruce, 2nd Baron of Clackmannan & Rate and Isabel Stewart of Fife. Robert Bruce was born into the Scottish aristocracy in

Clackmannan Clackmannan ( ; gd, Clach Mhanainn, perhaps meaning "Stone of Manau"), is a small town and civil parish set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Situated within the Forth Valley, Clackmannan is south-east of Alloa and south of Tillicoultry. ...

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. He married the daughter of John Scrimgeour of Dudhope, by whom he had at least three children: * David Bruce, who succeeded his father as 4th Baron of Clackmannan; * Edward Bruce, who married Agnes, the daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Airth of Airth; *

James Bruce James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia and in 1770 became the first Eur ...

, later

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