The great chivalric moment of Bruce in meeting the reckless charge of Sir Henry de Bohun and felling him with one blow of his battle-axe also isn’t universally agreed upon. In one of the primary English sources, Vita Edwardi Secundi, written in the decade after the battle, the chronicler states that Sir Henry was trying to return to his men when Bruce struck him down, and his squire who tried to save him was also killed. Not surprisingly, I like the other version better.

As the circumstances of Clifford’s death are also unclear, I gave him the chivalric death I thought he deserved by pairing him with Sir Giles d’Argentan, reputedly the second-best knight in Christendom, who did die as I described by essentially going down in a blaze of glory. After seeing King Edward II safely away from the battlefield and knowing the battle is lost, the great knight can’t contemplate fleeing and returns to lead one last valiant charge.

As significant and important as the victory was at Bannockburn for Scotland and Bruce—essentially putting God’s stamp on his kingship—it was the de facto rather than the de jure end to the war, which didn’t come until the treaty fourteen years later.

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MONICA McCARTY is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the widely acclaimed, award-winning Highland Guard series, as well as the MacLeods of Skye and Campbell trilogies. Her interest in the Scottish clan system began in the most unlikely of places: a comparative legal history course at Stanford Law School. After realizing that her career as a lawyer and her husband’s transitory life as a professional baseball player were not exactly a match made in heaven, she traded in writing legal briefs for writing about sexy Scottish alpha heroes. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. Visit www.monicamccarty.com.

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