sentences:  In February 1306, Robert Bruce VII, Earl of Carrick, a claimant to the Scottish throne, murdered his chief rival to the kingship, John Comyn III, Lord of Badenoch.Although the former was crowned King of Scots (as King Robert I) by March, the English Crown immediately struck back, defeating his forces in June.By September, Robert I was a fugitive, and seems to have escaped into the Hebrides.