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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: Slaying of The Red Comyn, Dumfries |
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As I have said before, I know next to nothing about history, but this reads to me like a war memorial as we have defined it (especially as it mentions Robert the Bruce and Bannockburn).
Not listed on UKNIWM
The plaque is on the wall outside Poundstretcher shop in Dumfries (opposite Robert Burns statue). OS Map Ref: NX 971 762
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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It is to do with the Wars of Independence so it counts.
I notice someone took the trouble to place a poppy at the top.
Adam |
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dhubthaigh Our first ever 1000-poster
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 5071 Location: Blairgowrie, Perthshire
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:04 am Post subject: |
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On 10 February 1306 Robert Bruce and Red Comyn met to discuss their differences in the safe and neutral Church of the Grey Friars in Dumfries. It seems they disagreed, either because both wanted the Scottish crown for themselves, or because Comyn refused to lend his support to Bruce's planned uprising against the English. Robert Bruce drew a dagger and stabbed Comyn in front of the high altar of the church. Bruce fled the church, telling waiting comrades outside what had happened. One of them, Sir Roger Kirkpatrick, went back in and finished off the seriously wounded Comyn.
It is unlikely that Bruce had gone to the meeting intending to murder the leading member of the most powerful family in Scotland: and certainly not in a place that caused revulsion in an age well used to savagery. But the die was cast and Bruce had no choice but to press on with his plans, in very different circumstances to those he had hoped for. |
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:39 am Post subject: |
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This is now listed on WMR (formerly UKNIWM) as reference 76001. It is listed under Bannockburn as that appears to be the nearest heading which we have for it.
Thanks for pointing this out.
By the way we do have photographs on our records, but as at December 2016 these are not available on public view |
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