Dunfermline

Dunfermline was a royal residence and burial place of Scotland's kings. Its Benedictine abbey grew from a foundation associated with Queen Margaret, and the church became a place of pilgrimage as well as a royal mausoleum. Among the rulers buried there was Robert I, whose funeral in 1329 fulfilled his wish to rest at Dunfermline. The Scottish Reformation transformed the abbey in 1560. Its buildings were attacked and much of the great church fell into decay, though the nave continued to serve for worship. The surviving abbey and royal burials preserved the memory of Dunfermline's place in the making of the Scottish kingdom.