House of Bruce questions

So, I think I might've posted about this before, but I was wondering, what do people think might have happend had the royal house of Bruce, the home of Robert the Bruce, survived past 1371? WOuld they have continued their position of neutrality during the hundred years war or renewed the auld alliance? Continued wars with England? Increased centralisation?
 
So, I think I might've posted about this before, but I was wondering, what do people think might have happend had the royal house of Bruce, the home of Robert the Bruce, survived past 1371? WOuld they have continued their position of neutrality during the hundred years war or renewed the auld alliance? Continued wars with England? Increased centralisation?


In 1346 under the terms of the Auld Alliance David marched south into England in the interests of France.

After sending out a small scout party on 16th October 1346, under the command of Niall Bruce of Carrick, an illegitimate son of Robert the Bruce, they discovered the presence of the English army and are able to forwarn, King David.

David II led the Scottish army to high ground at Neville's Cross, with his fellow commanders, Robert Stewart, William Douglas and George I, 10th Earl of March, to take a defensive stance, waiting for the English to attack, shilding their troops with various obstacles, to avoid major losses from English archers.

With a decisive Scottish victory, the death of both English commanders, Lord Henry Percy and William Zouche, Archbishop of York, while also taking Lord Ralph Neville, as prisoner, David was able to strike a blow to the English.

After returning to Edinburgh Castle, it is said that David's wife, Joan of England, fell from the stair and died instantly, while others believe the two loveless couple had a fight and David pushed her down the stairs, either way, David was single and heirless.

His second wife, came in the form of Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith, daughter of Sir John Graham (1301-1368) and Mary Menteith, Countess of Menteith, and grand daughter of John de Graham, second-in-command to Sir William Wallace.

Margaret would grace David and the Scottish nation, by providing seven children, four sons, Robert, David, John and Graham, along with three daughters Elizabeth, Margaret and Beatrice.
 
In 1346 under the terms of the Auld Alliance David marched south into England in the interests of France.

After sending out a small scout party on 16th October 1346, under the command of Niall Bruce of Carrick, an illegitimate son of Robert the Bruce, they discovered the presence of the English army and are able to forwarn, King David.

David II led the Scottish army to high ground at Neville's Cross, with his fellow commanders, Robert Stewart, William Douglas and George I, 10th Earl of March, to take a defensive stance, waiting for the English to attack, shilding their troops with various obstacles, to avoid major losses from English archers.

With a decisive Scottish victory, the death of both English commanders, Lord Henry Percy and William Zouche, Archbishop of York, while also taking Lord Ralph Neville, as prisoner, David was able to strike a blow to the English.

After returning to Edinburgh Castle, it is said that David's wife, Joan of England, fell from the stair and died instantly, while others believe the two loveless couple had a fight and David pushed her down the stairs, either way, David was single and heirless.

His second wife, came in the form of Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith, daughter of Sir John Graham (1301-1368) and Mary Menteith, Countess of Menteith, and grand daughter of John de Graham, second-in-command to Sir William Wallace.

Margaret would grace David and the Scottish nation, by providing seven children, four sons, Robert, David, John and Graham, along with three daughters Elizabeth, Margaret and Beatrice.

Interesting how would things progress from there?
 
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