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Dumbarton

Dumbarton

Dumbarton The wording on the plaque is: ROBERTUS DEI GRATIA REX SCOTORUM THIS PLAQUE WAS PLACED HERE TO COMMEMORATE THE SEPULTURE HERE WITHIN THE RUINED BOUNDS OF SAINT SERF'S PARISH CHURCH, LITTLE KIRKTON, OF THE EMBALMED VISCERA FROM THE BODY OF KING ROBERT 'THE BRUCE' ON OR ABOUT THE THIRD WEEK OF JUNE 1329. THE DYING MONARCH REQUESTED THAT HIS HEART BE TAKEN TO JERUSALEM BY A KNIGHT TEMPLAR IN FULFILMENT OF A SACRED VOW HE HAD MADE EARLIER IN HIS REIGN TO GO ON A CRUSADE TO THE HOLY LAND IN PALESTINE.ON THE SAME DAY AND AT THE HOUR APPOINTED FOR THE ENTOMBMENT O THE KING IN DUNFERMLINE ABBEY, A SIMULTANEOUS SERVICE OF SEPULTURE WAS CONDUCTED WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THIS VENERABLE EDIFICE.

The internal organs of Robert the Bruce were buried in a parish church close to the manor house where he died and not with his body more than 50 miles away, a historian claims. The king's organs are said to have been interred in the chapel of St Serf's Old Parish Church in Dumbarton although his body was laid to rest at Dunfermline Abbey. Quoted from the Daily Telegraph. St Serf's before Refurbisment