Biography of Isabella Countess Buchan -1314

Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. In the year of our Lord 1306, at its beginning, the aforesaid Robert de Brus, on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary [25th March 1306], had himself crowned King of Scotland at Scone [Map], in the presence and with the consent of four bishops, five earls, and the people of the land. Now the wife [Isabella Countess Buchan] of the Earl of Buchan, who was the daughter of the [her father] Earl of Fife and by hereditary right had the privilege of placing the crown upon the head of the new king, secretly left her lord, bringing with her the destriers of her husband, which she had left at home, so that she might perform that office. For this reason her husband, who had been faithful to the King of England, was angry, and when she was captured in the same year and he wished to put her to death, the king forbade him and ordered that she be placed upon the wall of the castle of Berwick in a wooden turret fixed there, so that she might be seen and recognized by those passing by. She remained thus confined for many days, on a meagre diet. As for the two bishops, namely the Bishop of Glasgow [Robert Wishart] and the Bishop of St Andrews [William de Lamberton] in Scotland, together with the Abbot of Scone, when they were captured in that same year, the king sent them into England to various castles, and they remained strictly imprisoned until the king's death. Therefore, when the coronation of the new king had been heard of and confirmed, the lord king of England, on the Feast of Pentecost, sent ahead some of his knights with an armed force, namely Sir Henry de Percy, Sir Aymer de Valence, and Sir Robert de Clifford, so that they might oppose and pursue the new king.

Anno Domini MCCCVI incipiente, Robertus de Brus prædictus, die Annunciationis Beatæ Mariæ fecit se coronari in regem Scotiæ apud at Scone, Scone, præsentibus et consentientibus quatuor episcopis, quinque comitibus, et populo terræ. Uxor autem comitis de Bouchan, quæ erat filia comitis de Fyth, cui de jure hæreditario competit coronam apponere capiti novi regis, furtive recessit a domino suo, adducens secum dextrarios domini sui quos domi dimiserat, ut illud officium exerceret; propter quod iratus dominus ejus, qui regi Angliæ fidelis extiterat, cum in eodem anno esset capta et vellet eam perimere, inhibuit ei rex, et jussit eam poni supra murum castri de Berewyk in tristega lignea fixa, ut sic a transeuntibus videri posset et cognosci; mansitque sic clausa multis diebus, et in arcta dieta. Duos autem episcopos, Glasguensem scilicet et Sancti Andreæ in Scotia, cum abbate de Scone, cum essent infra eundem annum capti, misit rex in Angliam ad diversa castra, manseruntque clausi in arcto usque ad obitum regis. Audita itaque et cognita coronatione novi regis, præmisit dominus rex Angliæ in festo Pentecostes quosdam ex militibus suis cum manu armata, dominum scilicet Henricum de Percy, dominum Almericum de Walence, et dominum Robertum de Clyfford, ut novo regi resisterent, et persequerentur eum.