Balliol, in surrendering, submits himself to a protracted abasement.

At Kincardine Castle on July 2, he confesses to rebellion and prays for forgiveness.

Five days later in the kirkyard of Stracathro, he abandons the treaty with the French.

The final humiliation comes at Montrose on July 8.

Dressed for the occasion, John is ceremoniously stripped of the vestments of royalty.

Antony Bek, the Bishop of Durham, rips the red and gold arms of Scotland from his surcoat, thus bequeathing to history the nickname Toom Tabard (empty coat) by which John has been known to generations of Scottish schoolchildren.

He and his son Edward are sent south into captivity.

Soon after, the English king follows, carrying in his train the Stone of Scone and other relics of Scottish nationhood.

David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn and a younger son of Robert II, had become involved in a major dispute with his older half-brother, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, who by 1385 had occupied his castle at Urquhart.

It is uncertain, but it is highly likely that Strathearn died in March 1386, and no later than 1389.

His wife appears to have been a daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk, and sister of David Lindsay, 1st Earl of Crawford.

They have a daughter, Euphemia, who succeeds to the earldom.

His widow will marry secondly Sir William Graham of Montrose, by whom she will become the mother of his eldest son and heir Alexander Graham, esq., of Kincardine, father of the first Lord Graham.