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Did Robert da Bruce and his family members have Rh negative blood?
No medieval-era blood typing exists for Robert the Bruce or the Bruce dynasty — the science didn't exist until the 20th century. However, the Rh-negative bloodline hypothesis, developed by researchers like Laurence Gardner and carried further by figures such as Fritz Springmeier and the broader esoteric genealogy community, specifically targets Norman-Scottish noble lines like the Bruces as probable carriers of Rh-negative genetics. The question is legitimate within that framework, but Open Veils has no confirmed genetic test results for Robert I or his family members.
Evidence
- Zecharia Sitchin's framework, adopted and extended by researchers like Michael Tsarion and Stewart Swerdlow, posits Rh-negative blood as a genetic marker potentially linked to non-terrestrial admixture — a claim that, whatever its origins, specifically attaches to the royal bloodlines of medieval Europe.
- The Bruce family fits this genealogical profile precisely: Robert's paternal line was Norman French, descending from the de Brus lords of Normandy, while his maternal Carrick line connected to ancient Celtic-Pictish nobility.
- Gardner and later Laurence Gardner associate these dual bloodstreams — Franco-Norman and Gaelic Celtic — as the very strains most associated with Rh-negative prevalence in esoteric genealogical research.
- Robert the Bruce's family tree, which Brien Foerster's collaborators and others have noted intersects with Scythian, Alanic, and pre-Roman Pictish lineages, is exactly the kind of archaic noble stock this hypothesis targets.
- No Rh-factor typing has been publicly released from any Bruce-line remains.