After The death of Alexander III, a dispute took place as to the succession to his throne, the matter was referred to Edward I of England.
The latter agreed to arbitrate, and decided in favour of John Baliol, one of the claimants.

But Edward also put forward a claim of supremacy over Scotland,which is based upon acts of homage paid by previous Scottish Kings to Kings of England, which were, however, paid in respect only of English lands owned by the Scottish Kings.

Baliol and the Scottish Norman nobility weakly submitted, but the Scottish people rose under William Wallace, and for eight years fought until Wallace was captured and executed (1305).

Edward Bruce, to whom the Irish chiefs thus ” transferred their own right of royal dominion,” was the brother of the victorious King Robert of Scotland.   

.The line of Scottish Kings which descended from the Gaels of Dal Riada had ended with the death of Alexander III in 1286.

• Gaelic in race, the Kings of Scotland had, for two centuries, ceased to be Gaelic in character.
• The marriage of Malcolm ” Ceann Mdr ” to a Saxon princess in the twelfth century, and the subsequent settlement in Scotland of Norman families —like the Bruces, Stewarts and Balliols—had changed the nature of the Scottish Court.
• It was by the practically independent rulers of Argyll and ” The Isles ” that the Gaelic tradition in Scotland was now carried on.