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King Robert Bruce and Taimoor

Some days ago I was sitting with friends we were having discussion about our leaders. One of our friends told us about the generosity of Robin Hood and the other discussed the heroics of King Robert Bruce. Then one who was sitting quite during all this discussion said that he has been punished many times due to King Bruce. We were astonished to hear that and asked how .he replied with a bright smile like Nona Leza (not like Mona Lisa) that “the spider and the king” was most difficult story for me when I was in my school. The other who was also sitting quietly said that the original story was of Timor and the ant. Every one became silent because no one has the correct of complete knowledge. At that time I said that it may be the story of any one but if we think about the logic it is difficult to think about spider falling to ground but if you talk about ant it seems to be logical and rational.

History of both

Now I want to give a brief account of their life and efforts they made.

Robert The Bruce

Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), often known as Robert the Bruce
The English king Edward I, the “Hammer of the Scots”, had reduced Scotland to a vassal state. In 1297 William Wallace had defeated the English army at the battle of Stirling Bridge, and became Guardian of Scotland, but not for long. The Battle of Falkirk on 22nd July saw Wallace defeated by Edwards’s army, and he fled underground, after resigning the position of Guardian so recently bestowed upon him. Two men then became joint Guardians - John ‘ the Red ‘ Comyn and Robert the Bruce - until 1300 when the place of Robert the Bruce was taken by Ingram de Umfraville.
Bruce knew that if he was to realise his claim on the Scottish throne, he had to eliminate his biggest problem in order to clear the path for him to rule. The problem was John ‘the Red’ Comyn, the nephew of the exiled Balliol. Comyn was powerful; he had influence and many powerful allies and friends. Bruce knew he had come to a cross-road. He must come to an agreement with Comyn, in the shape of a proposal which outlined Bruce’s plan to become king. Under Bruce’s plan, Bruce would give his lands to Comyn, in return for his support in making Bruce king. A meeting was set for 10th of February 1306, at Greyfriars, a Franciscan church in Dumfries. Comyn agreed to come and listen to Bruce’s proposal. The two men met at the alter of the church and when Comyn heard Bruce’s proposal, he was enraged. So enraged in fact, that a heated argument was ignited between himself and Bruce. This filled Bruce with anger, and in the heat of the moment he reached for his dagger and thrust it into John Comyn, killing him on the spot. Sir Robert Comyn, John’s uncle, rushed to defend his nephew and was killed by Bruce’s followers.

With that killing, Robert the Bruce had placed himself in a vulnerable position, and changed the history of Scotland. In his temper he had killed a well-respected noble, and worse still, killed him in a church. He knew that he was now under threat from Comyn’s kinsmen, as well as being an outlaw for the murder. He was also excommunicated from the church by Pope Clement V for the murder of Comyn. Nevertheless, on the 25th of March, 1306, a mere six weeks after the killing, Robert the Bruce was crowned king of Scotland in Scone palace Things were only to turn from bad to worse for King Robert the Bruce, including being outlawed by Edward I, hunted under Edwards command by the brother-in-law of Comyn, Aymer de Valence, defeated by him in a battle at Methven, and nearly being captured at Tyndrum by more of Comyn’s kinsmen.

He sent his family to Kildrummy Castle in Aberdeenshire for safety, but by September, his wife and daughter were in prison, his brother Neil had been hung and beheaded, and his sister Mary and Countess Isabella put in cages. Bruce then travelled from Kintyre to the island of Rathlin, just off the Irish coast. His movements are unknown after that until his return to Scotland in February 1307. It was during this uncertain time that tales of Bruce were abound, including many that were innaccurate or just fanciful talk of a leader by inspired followers. These stories included the famous observation by Bruce of a spider while hiding in a cave. Bruce was said to have watched the spider persistently attempt to bridge a gap at the mouth of the cave. The spider failed in its first two attempts, but was successful on the third. These, allegedly, inspired Bruce, and no doubt many of his supporters. (scottishweb.net/categories/Scotland-history/ Robert The Bruce)
According to a legend, at some point while he was on the run during the winter of 1305–06, Bruce hid himself in a cave on Rathlin Island off the north coast of Ireland, where he observed a spider spinning a web Bruce is remembered in Scotland today as a national hero. But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, “Tales of a Grandfather” by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas (the “Black Douglas”). The entire account may in fact be a version of a literary trope used in royal biographical writing. A similar story is told, for example, in Jewish sources about King David, and in Persian folklore about the Mongolian warlord Tamerlane and an ant.[38](wikipedia)

His body is buried in Dunfermline Abbey, while his heart is buried in Melrose Abbey(wikipedia)

conclusion

So in short the story may happen between 25th of March 1306 to February 1307.now we see the history of Tiamor.

Timur

Timur was born in Transoxiana, in the City of Kesh some 50 miles south of Samarkand in modern Uzbekistan (8 April 1336 – 18 February 1405)

In about 1360 Timur gained prominence as a military leader whose troops were mostly Turkic tribesmen of the region.[9][18] He took part in campaigns in Transoxiana with the Khan of Chagatai, a fellow descendant of Genghis Khan(wikipedia)

A legendary account of Timur’s rise to leadership, recorded among the Tatar descendants of the Qıpchaq Khanate in Tobol, goes as follows:
One day Aksak Temür[20] spoke thusly:

“Khan Züdei (in China) rules over the city. We now number fifty to sixty men, so let us elect a leader.” So they drove a stake into the ground and said: “We shall run thither and he who among us is the first to reach the stake, may he become our leader”. So they ran and Aksak Timur (since he was lame) lagged behind, but before the others reached the stake he threw his cap onto it. Those who arrived first said: “We are the leaders”. (But) Aksak Timur said: “My head came in first, I am the leader”. In the meanwhile an old man arrived and said: “The leadership should belong to Aksak Timur; your feet have arrived but, before then, his head reached the goal”. So they made Aksak Timur their prince(wikipedia)

Timur spent the next 35 years in various wars and expeditions. He not only consolidated his rule at home by the subjugation of his foes, but sought extension of territory by encroachments upon the lands of foreign potentates. His conquests to the west and northwest led him to the lands near the Caspian Sea and to the banks of the Ural and the Volga. Conquests in the south and south-West encompassed almost every province in Persia, including Baghdad, Karbala and Northern Iraq. (wikipedia)

One of the most formidable of Timur’s opponents was another Mongol ruler, a descendant of Genghis Khan named Tokhtamysh. After having been a refugee in Timur’s court, Tokhtamysh became ruler both of the eastern Kipchak and the Golden Horde. After his accession, he then quarrelled with Timur over the possession of Khwarizm and Azerbaijan. However, Timur still supported him against the Russians and in 1382 Tokhtamysh invaded the Muscovite dominion and burned Moscow.[23] (wikipedia)

Timur’s body was exhumed from his tomb in 1941 by the Soviet anthropologist Mikhail M. Gerasimov. From his bones it was clear that Timur was a tall and broad chested man with strong cheek bones. Gerasimov reconstructed the likeness of Timur from his skull. His height was 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 meters), tall for his era. He also confirmed Timur’s lameness due to a hip injury. (wikipedia)

Timur’s tomb is protected by a slab of jade in which are carved the words in Arabic: “When I rise, the World will Tremble”.[45] It is said that when Gerasimov exhumed the body, an additional inscription inside the casket was found reading “Whosoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.”[46] In any case, two days after Gerasimov had begun the exhumation, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, its invasion of the U.S.S.R.[47] Timur was re-buried with full Islamic ritual in November 1942 just before the Soviet victory at the Battle of Stalingrad (ref Marozzi 2004)(wikipedia)

Conclusion

Taimoor born after thirty year of the incident of King Robert bruce therefore it has little that this event happen to tiamooralso while reading taimoor history on wikipedia there is no evidence that he escaped form any enemy and hid him self in a cave or some place like that .on www.alhassanain.htm there is a story which states that

“Amir Timur was a great Mongolian King. He was one of the bravest and greatest warriors. He had conquered nearly half of the world known at that time. His courage was great. He learnt from an ant not to loose courage. He tells his own story.

Once he was fighting a battle. He was defeated. He had to run away to the mountains to save his life. He hid himself in a safe place. Tired and hungry he sat at one place quietly watching little things around him. He noticed an ant working. The ant was carrying a grain of rice much bigger than itself. With this load the ant tried to climb up a wall. The grain fell down. The ant came down and lifted the grain once again. It started to climb the wall. Again the grain fell down and again it went down to try. The ant did not loose courage. It tried again and again. The King tells us that the ant tried thirty three times until it succeeded in taking the grain up the wall. The King learnt a lesson. Man looses courage. He was weak. He must grow strong.

So heartened, he went about collecting his run-away soldiers and officers. He rebuilt his army. He fought yet another battle. He won. Thereafter, one success after another came to him. He had learnt not to loose courage. He continued to battle until he became a great King.”

If this story is written in tuzak-e-taimuri then it must be true and if not than the story of King Bruce will be right.