Mary Bruce

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Mary Bruce was a sister of King Robert I of Scotland (Robert the Bruce).

Along with the king's other female relatives, she was captured and betrayed to the English by the Earl of Ross. By order of King Edward I of England, she was then held prisoner in a cage exposed to the public view in Roxburgh Castle until 1310.

She was eventually released, in exchange for English noblemen captured at the Battle of Bannockburn.

She married (1) Sir Neil Campbell, one of her brother's loyal supporters; (2) Alexander Fraser.

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