Walter, the sixth hereditary steward of the Scottish monarchy, had married Marjorie, the eldest daughter of Scotland’s King Robert the Bruce by his first wife, Isabella of Mar.

Edward Bruce had been named heir to the throne but he dies without legitimate children on December 3, 1318 in a battle near Dundalk in Ireland.

Marjorie by this time had died in a riding accident—probably in 1317.

Scotland’s Parliament honors the Bruce line with the passage of a 1318 decree that provides for the coronation of Bruce’s grandson should he die without a son.

That grandson will eventually be crowned Robert II of Scotland, the first king of the Stewart line.