The murder of John Comyn in the Greyfriars church at Dumfries on 10 February 1306 was one of the most consequential single acts of the Wars of Independence. Bruce and Comyn had met to discuss co-operation. An argument erupted and Bruce stabbed Comyn at the altar — a double sacrilege of murder and church violation. Knowing that excommunication and English punishment would follow, Bruce had no choice but to seize the Scottish throne immediately. He was crowned at Scone six weeks later. The murder made the Bruce dynasty: without it, there would have been no Bannockburn.
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