After years of illness Bruce dies. Theories about the cause of his sickness range from leprosy to syphilis. His body is interred at Dunfermline Abbey after his heart is removed in accordance with ...

Robert Bruce's struggle for the Scottish crown ... Bruces body is buried in Dunfermline Abbey, whilst his heart is at Melrose Abbey in the borders. It is buried with the inscription – "A noble ...

Historian Dr Fiona Watson believes Robert the Bruce was from a village ... His body is buried at Dunfermline Abbey, but his heart is buried at Melrose Abbey. The battle on which Scotland's ...

Historians have long debated whether Robert the Bruce suffered from leprosy ... in a tomb discovered within the ruins of ...

Dunfermline Abbey was later established as a royal ... Duke of Albany, in 1420. Robert The Bruce, otherwise known as Robert I, became the last of the seven Scottish kings to be buried there ...

After the death of King Robert the Bruce in 1329, his body was laid to rest in Dunfermline Abbey. Nearly 500 years later after a building collapsed, the fragile bones of the once mighty King have ...