[99] Celtic Scotland, vol. iii, p. 368.
[100] It should of course be recollected that the Gaelic tongue must have persisted in the vernacular speech of the Lowlands long after we lose all traces of it as a literary language.
APPENDIX C
TABLE OF THE COMPETITORS OF 1290
(Names of the thirteen Competitors are in bold type)
| Duncan I (1034-1040) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Malcolm III (Canmore) (1057-8-1093) | Donald Bane (1093-1097) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| David I (1134-1753) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prince Henry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William the Lion (1165-1214) | David Earl of Huntingdon | Ada m. the Count of Holland | Marjorie m. John Lindesay | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alexander II (1214-1249) | Isabella m. Robert Ros | Ada m. Patrick, Earl of Dunbar | Margaret m. Eustace Vesci | Aufricá m. William Say | Henry Galithly | Margaret m. Alan of Galloway | Isabella m. Robert Bruce | Ada m. Henry Hastynges | |||||||||||||||||
| Alexander III (1249-1285-6) | Marjorie | Devorguilla m. John Balliol | Henry Hastynges | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Margaret m. Eric II ofNorway | Nicolas Sovles | William Ros | Patrick of Dunbar | William Vesci | Roger Mandeville | Patrick Galithly | John Balliol (1292-1296) | Robert Bruce | John Hastynges | Florent, Count of Holland | Robert Pinkeny | John Comyn m. a sister of JohnBalliol | |||||||||||||
| Margaret, the Maid of Norway (1285-6-1290) | Edward Balliol | Robert Earl of Carrick | John Comyn (stabbed by Bruce in1305-6) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robert I (1306-1329) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||