A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Buchan, Countess of

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BUCHAN, COUNTESS OF.

Sister of the Earl of Fife, crowned Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, at Scone, March 29th., 1306, in place of her brother, whose duty it was, but whose fears prevented him from performing it. She was taken prisoner by Edward the First of England, and, for six years confined in a wooden cage, in one of the towers of Berwick castle.