In addition to that recorded in the Records of Parliaments of Scotland [3][4] for Gask, there are a number of other royal charters, mostly similar regrants, of the same date signed by King David II, in which Elizabeth is described as "dilecte sorori me" - "my beloved sister". and "dilecte sorori nostre" - "our beloved sister". which thus remove that doubt. In all, there are similar charters for the lands and baronies of Gask, Dupplin, Ochtertyre, Newtyle, Kynprony (Kinpurnie), Turyngs (Turin) and Dromy (Drimmie). The reason for the existence of so many charters was that Sir Walter Olifaunt and Elizabeth Bruce his wife had obtained reconfirmation of their landholdings and baronies from her brother King David II in 1364.
Personal life
Elizabeth's birth date is unknown, but her mother Elizabeth de Burgh is thought to have died in 1327. Although Elizabeth Bruce was certainly alive in 1364 when her brother King David II reconfirmed the estates which Elizabeth and her husband owned, her death date remains unknown.
Given the chronology of her life, it is assumed that she was the daughter of Elizabeth de Burgh and that she got her first name from her mother.
Succession to the Scottish throne
The most likely reason for Elizabeth not being mentioned by either Fordun or his successors is the fact that Elizabeth was probably born shortly before her mother's death in 1327 (which in turn was followed two years later by the death of her father, King Robert the Bruce in 1329). More important events therefore overshadowed her birth and early childhood. Her late birth would explain in part why she outlived four and possibly all of her siblings.
As the youngest child of King Robert the Bruce and Elizabeth de Burgh, Elizabeth Bruce would have been sixth in line of succession to the Scottish throne.
