His chief motive was to prevent a restoration of Mary to the Scottish throne.

He finally resigned his claim to the Scottish throne in January 1356 and died childless in 1364.

However, Margaret died soon after this, and Edward was brought in to decide the succession of the Scottish throne.

Bruce has a claim to the Scottish throne.

The succession to the Scottish throne was not his concern.

By 1058 Malcolm had killed Macbeth in battle and taken the Scottish throne.

When Margaret died there was no obvious heir to the Scottish throne.

The Bruce family thus lost what they regarded as their rightful place on the Scottish throne.

Even before Edward assumed independent control of his own crown the Scottish throne was again in contention.

He was a claimant to the Scottish throne.