Following is a list of some of the best resources for determining a Qualifying Ancestor in one or more of the qualifying events. In some cases, the item is a hyperlink to the source itself.
- Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 2nd ed., 5 vols. (2013)
- Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 4 vols. (2011)
- Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 3 vols. (2011)
- Sir William Dugdale, The Baronage of England, 2 vols. in 1 (1675)
- Francis Palgrave, The Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military Summons, vol. 1 (1827)
- Robert White, A History of the Battle of Bannockburn (1871)
- Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, 9 vols. (1904-1914) [This is the link to volume 1; other volumes are available at that site by scrolling to the bottom of the screen, waiting for the files to load, and selecting the appropriate files]
- William Oxenham Hewlett, Notes on Dignities in the Peerage of Scotland (1882)
- Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of Honor (1904)
- John Barbour, The Bruce (1909) [This is an e-book available online through Project Gutenberg]
- G. W. S. Barrow, Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland (1964) [This book is available to borrow on Internet Archive]
- Evan M. Barron, The Scottish War of Independence (1934)
- Richard Brooks, Cassell’s Battlefields of Britain and Ireland (1949)
- Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, The Annals of Scotland, 3 vols. (1797) [This is the link to volume 1; other volumes are available at that site by scrolling to the bottom of the screen, waiting for the files to load, and selecting the appropriate files]
- Michael A. Penman, Robert the Bruce: King of the Scots (2014) [This book is available for purchase and borrowing appears to be unavailable]
- Ronald McNair Scott, Robert the Bruce: King of Scots (1982)
Order of the First Scottish War of Independence, 1296-1320 