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The body of Robert the Bruce is buried in Dunfermline Abbey, but according to a death bed decree Sir James Douglas removed and carried his heart 'against the enemies of the name of Christ' , in Moorish Granada, Spain to atone for his murder of John Comyn in the church of Greyfriars. According to legend the heart was recovered by Sir William Keith and taken back to Scotland to be buried at Melrose Abbey, in Roxburghshire, following an earlier decree. In 1920 the heart was discovered by archeologists and was reburied, but the location was not marked. In 1996, a casket, thought to contain the heart, was unearthed during construction work. It was reburied in Melrose Abbey in 1998, pursuant to the dying wishes of the King

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