Robert de Brus

Abt 1220 - 1295  (~ 75 years)

• Name	Robert de Brus  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1220	of Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	31 Mar 1295	Lochmaben Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland   [1, 3, 5, 6]
  Burial	17 Apr 1295	Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, England   [1, 3, 6]
  Person ID	I10158	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert de Brus,   b. of Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. 1221
  Mother	Isabel of Huntingdon   d. Bef 20 Mar 1252
  Family ID	F606	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabel de Clare,   b. 2 Nov 1226   d. Aft 10 Jul 1264 (Age > 38 years)
  Marriage	May 1240  [1, 3, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Isabel de Brus   bur. Easington, Durham, England + 2. Robert de Brus,   b. Jul 1243   d. 4 Apr 1304, England (Age ~ 60 years)
  Family ID	F630	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Lord of Annandale. Called "The Competitor" and "The Claimant." "Sir Robert de Brus, s. and h. of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, by Isabel, 2nd da. of David (of Scotland), Earl of Huntingdon, and coh. of her br., John (le Scot), Earl of Chester. He suc. his father in 1245 and his mother in 1251-2. On 19 Apr. 1267, he, together with his son, swore fealty to the King and Prince Edward. He was sum. cum equis et armis from 18 July (1257) 41 Hen. III to 17 Aug. (1294) 22 Edw. I, and to attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 June (1283) 11 Edw. I, by writs directed Roberto de Brus domino Vallis (or de Valle) Anandi. Being a competitor for the Crown of Scotland (claiming as nearest in degree), he agreed, 5 June 1291, to be bound by the decision of the King as overlord, who however decided against him, 6 Nov. 1292. He m., 1stly, in May 1240, Isabel, da. of Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by Isabel, 2nd da. of William (Marshal), the elder, Earl of Pembroke, and in her issue coh. of her br., Walter, Earl of Pembroke. She was b. 2 Nov. 1226, and was living 10 July 1264. He m., 2ndly, 3 May 1273 at Hoddam, in the diocese of Glasgow, Christian, da. and h. of Sir William d'Ireby, of Ireby, Cumberland, by Christian, elder da. and coh. of Odard de Hodeholme, of Gamblesby and Glassonby in that co. She had m., 1stly, before 12 Dec. 1257, Sir Thomas de Lascelles, of Bolton, Cumberland, who d. s.p. before Oct. 1260: and 2ndly, before Aug. 1261, Sir Adam de Gesemuth, of Cramlington, Northumberland, Buxton, Standon, Over Haddon, &c., co. Derby, and Great Dalton, co. Dumfries, who d. between 27 July 1270 and 23 Apr. 1274. He d. at Lochmaben Castle, 31 Mar., and was bur. 17 Apr. 1295, in Guisborough Priory. His widow, whose dower was settled by deed dated 29 Aug. 1296, d. s.p. shortly before 6 July 1305." [Complete Peerage II:358-60, as corrected in Volume XIV.]

  
  

• Sources

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