Robert the Bruce Robert the Bruce Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (Medieval Gaelic: '; modern Scottish Gaelic: '; Norman French: ' or '; Early Scots: "Robert Brus"; ), was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. Robert was one of the most famous warriors of his generation, and eventually led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England. He fought successfully during his reign to regain Scotland's place as an independent country and is today revered in Scotland as a national hero. Descended from the Anglo-Norman and Gaelic
The Scots Kirk, Paris "Chariots of Fire", but the building used as the Scots Kirk in the film was actually the former Broughton Church in Edinburgh. During the negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles both the American President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George worshipped at the church. The current minister is Rev Jan Steyn who has been minister since April 2017. Though fully part of the Church of Scotland and conscious of its Scottish connections, the Scots Kirk primarily seeks to offer English-language Presbyterian, Reformed Christian worship and pastoral care to an international congregation. The Scots Kirk, Paris The Scots