Robert I de Brus

Family/Spouse: Agnes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1143

Family/Spouse: Agnes of Aumale. Agnes (daughter of Stephen of Aumale and Hawise de Mortimer) was born between 1110 and 1120. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1194

Family/Spouse: Eufemia de Aumale. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 20 Mar 1196

Adam married Juetta de Arches after 1169. Juetta (daughter of William de Arches) died after 1209. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 1211 and 1212
• Alternate death: 16 Jun 1212

Notes:

Lord of Annandale.

William married Christian about 1185. Christian (daughter of Walter fitz Alan and Eschyna de London) died after 1245. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 29 Mar 1246

Family/Spouse: Roger Mauduit. Roger (son of Godfrey Mauduit) was born in 1172 in Eshott, Morpeth, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry de Percy. Henry (son of Joscelin of Louvain and Agnes de Percy) was born in of Petworth, Sussex, England; died before 29 Sep 1198. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 3 Feb 1222
• Alternate death: 12 Feb 1222

Notes:

Took the side of the barons against John. Patron of Guisborough Priory.

Family/Spouse: Joan of Chester. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1226 and 1233
• Alternate death: Bef 23 Jan 1226

Notes:

Lord of Annandale.

Family/Spouse: Isabel of Huntingdon. Isabel (daughter of David of Scotland and Maud of Chester) died before 20 Mar 1252; was buried in Sawtrey Abbey, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notwithstanding The Scots Peerage, CP, and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she was a granddaughter, not a daughter, of Walter Fitz Alan, third high steward of Scotland. See Andrew B. W. MacEwen, "A Clarification of the Dunbar Pedigree," citation details below.

Euphame married Patrick of Dunbar before 1213. Patrick (son of Patrick of Dunbar and Ada of Scotland) was born about 1185; died after 28 Jun 1248 in Marseilles, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1193, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Alternate birth: 1197, of Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England

Notes:

"His heart was buried before the Lady altar in the church or chapel of the Hospital of Sandon, Surrey." [Royal Ancestry]

William married Joan Briwerre about 1226. Joan (daughter of William de Briwerre and Beatrice de Vaux) died before 12 Jun 1233; was buried in Hospital of Sandon, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ellen de Balliol about 1233. Ellen (daughter of Ingram de Balliol and (Unknown daughter of Walter de Berkeley)) was born about 1200 in of Alnwick, Northumberland, England; died before 22 Nov 1281. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1247

Notes:

Richardson, Royal Ancestry, has this Peter (Piers) de Brus dying "7 Sept., before 1247, probably in 1240." He mentions nothing about him being a "Crusader."

The Wallop Family says he died at Marseilles, 1247.

Ancestral Roots, 8th ed. (2004) is very confused about this individual, varying his parentage and at least once conflating him with his father:

Ancestral Roots, 88-28:
28. HAWISE (or HELWISE) DE LANCASTER, m. PIERS (PETER) DE BRUS (136-26), d. bef. 1247, Crusader, Lord of Skelton, son of Piers de Brus and Joan le Grammaire. (CP V: 269; VCH Lanc. I: 357-366.)

Ancestral Roots, 136-25 and 136-26:
25. AGNES, m. (1) William de Roumare, d. 1151; m. (2) Piers (Peter) I de Brus, Lord of Skelton, d. Feb 1218/9, son of Adam de Brus, by Joan le Grammaire, dau. Richard le Grammaire of Knottington, co. York. (West Winter XIII.84; ES II/46; CP V: 269, VII 373.)
26. PIERS (PETER) DE BRUS, d. bef. 1222, bur. Guisborough, Lord of Skelton, co. York, Crusader; m. abt. 1210/15, HAWISE (or HELWISE) DE LANCASTER (88-28). (CP V: 267; West Winter, XIV.145; VCH Lanc. I: 357-366; Bank I: 431-432; Farrar, EYC II:15, III: 87.)

Ancestral Roots, 184B-8:
8. SIR WALTER DE FAUCONBERGE, 1st Lord Fauconberge, lord of Rise & Withernwick in Holderness, d. 1/2 Nov 1304; m. by Nov, 1243, AGNES DE BRUS (136-27), d. abt. 1280, dau. & coh. PIERS (PETER) II DE BRUS (136-26), d. 1222, Lord of Skelton, co. York, and HAWISE (or HELEWISE) DE LANCASTER (88-28). (CP V: 267-269; Clay, 69.)

Peter married Hawise de Lancaster before 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.]

Robert married Isabel de Clare in May 1240. Isabel (daughter of Gilbert de Clare and Isabel Marshal) was born on 2 Nov 1226; died after 10 Jul 1264. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger fitz John. Roger (son of John fitz Robert and Ada de Balliol) was born after 1219 in of Warkworth, Northumberland, England; died before 22 Jun 1249 in Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Dunbar.

"He was one of the English faction in 1255, in which year he rescued Alexander III from the power of the Comyn family, and was nom., in Sep. 1255, Regent and Guardian of the King and Queen. He held a command against the Norwegians, at Largs, in 1263; was a signatory to the treaty, 6 July 1266, for the cession of the Hebrides and the Isle of Man to Scotland; as also to the marriage contract of Margaret of Scotland with Eric of Norway, 25 July 1281; and again in Feb. 1283/4, to the succession of the 'Maid of Norway' to the throne of Scotland." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

From The History of Dunbar, from the Earliest Records to the Present Time by James Miller (Dunbar, Scotland: James Downie, 1859):

Thomas Lermont of Ersildun (Earlston), the celebrated bard and prophet, (commonly called The Rhymer), visited Dunbar in 1285, and foretold to the Earl the sudden death of Alexander III, who was killed by a fall from his horse on the sands of Kinghorn.

[...O]n the night preceding the King's death, Thomas having arrived at the castle of Dunbar, was interrogated by the Earl, in the jocular manner he wont to assume with the prophet, if to-morrow should produce any remarkable event, to which the bard, while "coming events cast their shadows before," replied, in the mystical language of prophecy: "Alas for to-morrow, a day of calamity and misery! Before the twelfth hour shall be heard a blast so vehement, that it shall exceed those of every former period. A blast which will strike the nations with amazement, -- shall reduce those who hear it to a state of insensibility, -- shall humble what is proud, and what is fierce shall level with the ground! The sorest wind and tempest that ever was heard of in Scotland." After this prediction, which was left to be fulfilled either by accident or the weather, Thomas retired.

Next day, the Earl and his companions having continued in watch till the ninth hour, without discovering any unusual appearance in the elements, began to doubt the prescient powers of the soothsayer, to whom it was imagined, the "sunset of life had given mystical lore," and having ordered him into their presence upbraided him as an impostor, and hastened to enjoy their wonted repast; but his lordship had scarcely placed himself at table, and the hand of the dial pointed to the hour of noon, when an express, covered with foam, appeared at the castle-gate, demanding an audience. On being interrogated, he exclaimed: "I do indeed bring news; but of a lamentable kind, to be deplored by the whole realm of Scotland, Alas! our renowned king, has ended his fair life at Kinghorn." "This," cried the prophet, gathering himself up in the spirit of conscious veracity," this is the scathful wind and dreadful tempest, which shall blow such a calamity and trouble to the whole state of the whole realm of Scotland."

The messenger paused, while the Earl and his companions, rousing themselves as from a dream, beat their breasts in the agony of despair, and acknowledged that the prediction of the Rhymer had been too fatally verified.

Patrick married Cecily fitz John before 1242. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph fitz Ranulph. Ralph (son of Ranulph fitz Robert and Mary le Bigod) was born in of Middleham, Durham, England; died on 31 Mar 1270; was buried in Coverham Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1235, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Notes:

Taken prisoner in the battles of Lewes; liberated after the victory at Evesham.

Henry married Eleanor de Warenne on 8 Sep 1268 in York, Yorkshire, England. Eleanor (daughter of John de Warenne and Alice de Lusignan) was born in 1251; died after 1282; was buried in Sallay Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married Marmaduke de Thweng about 1242. Marmaduke (son of Robert de Thweng and Maud de Kilton) was born in of Kilton in Brotton, Yorkshire, England; died between 1282 and 1284. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1280
• Alternate death: Aft 25 May 1280
• Alternate death: 22 May 1286

Agnes married Walter de Faucomberge before Nov 1243. Walter (son of Peter de Faucomberge and Margaret de Montfitchet) was born in of Rise, Holderness, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Nov 1304 in Rise, Holderness, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Nunkeeling Priory, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1312-1313

Family/Spouse: Robert de Ros. Robert (son of Robert de Ros) was born in of Wark, Northumberland, England; died before 20 Apr 1274. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1275 and 1281

Notes:

Or Laderina, Ladereyne.

Family/Spouse: John de Bellew. John (son of Thomas de Bellewe and Alice de Reineville) was born in of Carlton-in-Balne in Snaith, Yorkshire, England; died before 11 Jan 1301. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John fitz Marmaduke. John (son of Marmaduke Fitz Geoffrey) was born in of Horden, Durham, England; died before 16 Aug 1311; was buried in Durham Cathedral, Durham, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Marjory of Carrick about 1273. Marjory (daughter of Neil and Isabel) was born about 1252; died before Nov 1292. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1247, Clavering, Essex, England
• Alternate death: Bef 20 Apr 1310, Horsford, Norfolk, England

Notes:

"He distinguished himself in the war with Scotland, 1294-8, and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Stirling 11 Sept. 1297. He was summoned to Parliament from 2 Nov. 1295 to 26 October 1309, by writs directed Roberto filio Rogeri, whereby he is held to have become Lord Fitz Roger." [Royal Ancestry]

Robert married Margaret la Zouche in 1265. Margaret (daughter of Alan la Zouche and Ellen de Quincy) was born in 1251 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Dunbar. Earl of March.

"He was one of the competitors for the Crown of Scotland, lodging his petition 3 Aug. 1291, at Berwick, in right of his great-grandmother, the Countess Ada, [illegit.] da. of King William as abovenamed. This claim he soon withdrew, swearing fealty to Edward I on 25 Mar. 1296, and taking the English side when hostilities began that year. In 1298 he was the King's Lieutenant for Scotland, and in 1300 was with his son Patrick at the siege of Carlaverock." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

Patrick married Marjory Comyn before 1283. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Mary of Middleham. "She married Robert de Neville, Lord of Raby, who soon after, violating the sanctity of another domestic hearth, met with speedy retribution. Being detected in one of his clandestine visits to a lady in Craven, he was so horribly mutilated by her husband that he died of his wounds, on the 6th of June, 1271. Mary of Middleham did not again enter the bonds of wedlock, but lived on her own inheritance, and dying, in 1320, was buried beside her husband in the choir at Coverham. Ralph, the only child of the marriage, inherited Raby, on the death of his grandfather; but he was so indolent and careless in the management of his affairs, that his mother settled Middleham and the rest of her manors on her grandson, Robert Neville, commonly called 'The Peacock of the North.'" (History and Directory of Old Yorkshire by T. F. Bulmer, 1890.)

Mary married Robert de Neville about 1260. Robert (son of Robert de Neville and (Unknown first wife of Robert de Neville)) was born before 1240 in of Middleham, Yorkshire, England; died on 6 Aug 1271. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Warden of Galloway and Ayrshire 1296; Justiciar in Dumfries and joint Justiciar in Lancaster, Cumberland, and Westmorland 1297; constable of Scarborough Castle 1308; Justice of the Forest Beyond Trent 1311; Keeper of Bamburgh Castle 1313; Keeper of the Marches.

M.P. 1299-1314, according to Ancestral Roots.

Fought at Bannockburn.

Family/Spouse: Eleanor de Arundel. Eleanor (daughter of Richard Fitz Alan and Alice di Saluzzo) was born about 1284 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died in 1328; was buried in Beverley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs 22 Feb 1307 to 18 Sep 1322.

"[P]layed a leading role at the battle of Stirling in 1297, but in 1299 was taken prisoner and ransomed by the Scots. [...] In 1312 he joined Thomas, earl of Lancaster, in the attack upon Piers Gaveston, and in 1321, at the time of Lancaster's great rebellion, his loyalties were the subject of suspicion by the crown." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

From Wikipedia:

In 1297 Marmaduke achieved some fame at the Battle of Stirling Bridge by a heroic escape. Over 100 English knights had been trapped, together with several thousand infantry, on the far side of the river, and were being slaughtered by the Scots. Thweng managed to fight his way back across the bridge and he thus became the only knight of all those on the far side of the river to survive the battle. Following the rout, Thweng with William FitzWarin were appointed castellans of Stirling Castle by the English leader John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey. The castle was quickly starved into submission, and Thweng and FitzWarin were taken prisoner to Dumbarton Castle.

At the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, however, after the English defeat, Sir Marmaduke apparently made no attempt to escape. Instead he wandered over the battlefield until he located Robert the Bruce; only then was he prepared to surrender, and only to the victorious King. Robert recognised Sir Marmaduke and released him and Ralph de Monthermer, also captured, both without ransom, but not without first entertaining them at table.

Marmaduke married Isabel de Ros in 1273. Isabel (daughter of William de Ros and Eustache fitz Ralph) was born in of Ingmanthorpe in Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire, England; died in 1309. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice de Merlay. Alice (daughter of Roger de Merlay and Isabel de Ros) was born about 1258; died before 7 Feb 1268. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs, 12 Nov 1304-25 Aug 1318.

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Ros. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice de Killingholm. Alice (daughter of John de Killingholm) was born in of Boythorpe, Yorkshire, England; died on 22 Jun 1356. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 5 Mar 1310, Scotland

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writ 24 June and 1 Oct 1295.

"In March 1295/6 he went over to the Scots and routed his brother, William, who had been furnished by the king with troops for the defence of Wark. The king himself then occupied the castle (17-28 March), before a successful campaign in Scotland. SIR ROBERT DE ROOS, Lord Roos, fled to his castle of Sanquhar in Scotland, and finally into hiding, and died in exile in or soon after 1296." [Royal Ancestry]

Robert married Lora before 1292. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1293

Notes:

Or Isabel.

Sibyl married Miles de Stapleton before 1286. Miles (son of Nicholas de Stapleton and Margery Basset) was born in of Bedale, Yorkshire, England; died on 24 Jun 1314 in Bannockburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Maud FitzJohn.

Family/Spouse: Robert de Lumley. Robert (son of Roger de Lumley and Sybil de Morwick) was born about 1272 in of Lumley in Little Lumley, Durham, England; died before 13 Jul 1308. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1329

Maud married Hugh Ross in 1308. Hugh (son of William Ross and Euphemia de Barclay) died on 19 Jul 1333 in Halidon Hill, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Isabel of Mar about 1295. Isabel (daughter of Donald of Mar and Ellen) died before 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth de Burgh in 1302. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard de Burgh and Margaret) died on 26 Oct 1327 in Cullen, Moray, Scotland; was buried in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament from 16 Jul 1299 to 20 Nov 1311 by writs directed Johanni de Clavering. He fought with distinction in the Scottish wars and was taken prisoner at Bannockburn.

John married Hawise de Tibetot after 11 Sep 1277. Hawise (daughter of Robert de Tibetot and Eve de Chaworth) died on 18 Feb 1345. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Euphemia married Ranulph de Neville before 12 Mar 1281. Ranulph (son of Robert de Neville and Mary Fitz Ranulph) was born on 18 Oct 1262 in of Raby, Durham, England; died after 18 Apr 1331; was buried in Coverham Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 18 Apr 1331

Notes:

"Randolf or Ranulph (sometimes called, seemingly in error, Ralph, son and heir of Robert de Neville and Mary his wife, was born 18 October 1262, and was heir to the Neville estates on the death of his grandfather, in 1282 (having livery under writ of 11 January 1283/4), and to his mother's inheritance, April 1320. He was summoned, 15 July 1287, with horses and arms to a military council at Gloucester (before Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, in the King's absence abroad), and to attend the King at Westminster, June 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 18 February 1330/1, by writs directed Ranulpho (and Radulpho) de Neville, whereby he is held to have become Lord Neville. For service in Scotland he was summoned 1291 and in later years; for service in Gascony, 1294, 1297 and 1324; and against the rebels under the Earl of Lancaster, 1322. His seal, as Dominus de Raby, was attached to the letter of the Barons to the Pope, February 1300/1. In 1303 he was chief of the delegates summoned by the King to set forth the grievances of the people against the Bishop of Durham. He, or possibly his son Ralph, was commissioner of array in Durham, 1322, in the North Riding of Yorks, 1324, and in Northumberland, 1324 and 1326; in 1325 Keeper of the Peace and one of the specially appointed keepers of the coast in Northumberland, and in 1326 one of the commissioners to impress shipping in the ports of that county. He m., 1stly, Eupheme, daughter of Robert Fitzroger, Lord Fitzroger (see Clavering), and, 2ndly, Margery, dau. of John de Thweng, by whom he had no issue. He died shortly after 18 April 1331." [Complete Peerage IX:497-8.]

Dugdale says of him that "It is reported of this Ranulph, that he little minded Secular business; but, for the most part, betook himself to conversation with the Canons of Merton and Coverham; as also, that he committed Incest with his own Daughter, and that Richard de Kellaw, Bishop of Durham, did for that crime compel him to do publick pennance." According to footnote (b) of the CP account quoted previously, this took place in 1313.

A slightly different version of the incest story is found in the 1875 Preface to Volume III of The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, 1314-1316, by the volume's editor, Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy. Hardy devotes nearly a page to the conviction and punishment of Ranulph's daughter Anastasia for her adultery with John de Lilleford, dwelling at length on how "proving contumacious, sentence of the Greater Excommunication was pronounced against her." This sentence was subquently commuted by the bishop and replaced with six weeks of elaborate public penance. But "[t]his unhappy woman's troubles seem not to have ended even with this promulgation of her shame and disgrace. On the 9th of November following, a mandate was issued by the bishop for the condemnation of Sur Ranulph de Neville, knight, who had been 'judicially convicted of the crime of incest and adultery with the said Anastasia, his daughter, and wife of Sir Walter de Fauconberg;' to appear in the parish church of Aukland, on the Monday after the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, there to receive penance for the said crime and for the further offence of contumacy. Sir Ranulph failing to appear, on the 16th of the following month, a mandate was issued, directing him to be excommunicated, in the Galilee at Durham, and all parish churches within the archdeaconry of Durham. We have no further details of this lamentable story. Sir Ranulph de Nevill, of Raby, was a baron of Parliament by writ, succeeded his grandfather Robert, in 1282, and died in 1331. It is only just to add, that Sir Ranulph seems habitually to have been in disfavour with the church; as for other, and apparently, trivial offenses, he had been pronounced excommunicated in the month of August before; but on the Tuesday after Michaelmas day had been absolved. On the 13th of October following, we find him again cited, 'for certain crimes and excesses which he has confessed,' to appear before the bishop or his commissaries, in the Galilee at Durham. In this instance, the nature of his offenses is not named."

There certainly seems to have been no love lost between the Neville family and the Durham ecclesiastical establishment. Dugdale reports that shortly after Ranulph assumed his inheritance in 1282, he had a feud with the prior of Durham over the terms of a customary presentation of a stag to the priory on St. Cuthbert's Day. And we see from his CP entry that in 1303 "Ranulph was chief of the delegates summoned by the King to set forth the grievances of the people against the Bishop of Durham." The incest case happened in 1313. In 1318, Ranulph's eldest son Robert attacked and killed Richard Marmaduke, seneschal to the bishop, on the Old Bridge of Durham. All of which suggests a cycle of offense and reprisal. (Later in the same year, Robert was killed by James, earl of Douglas, in single combat to which Robert had dared the earl.)

It should also be noted that Dugdale's characterization of Ranulph as "little minding Secular business" accords oddly with the eventful life of military and civilian service set forth by Complete Peerage. And yet this characterization appears elsewhere. T. F. Bulmer's 1890 History and Directory of Old Yorkshire states that this Ranulph "was so indolent and careless in the management of his affairs, that his mother settled Middleham and the rest of her manors on her grandson, Robert Neville". One wonders if we aren't simply picking through the tattered leavings of a 700-years-gone propaganda war.

Ranulph married Euphemia de Clavering before 12 Mar 1281. Euphemia (daughter of Robert fitz Roger and Margaret la Zouche) was born after 1265; died about 1320; was buried in Staindrop, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 2 Feb 1300, Leconfield, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate birth: 6 Feb 1301, Leconfield, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate death: 27 Feb 1352, Warkworth, Northumberland, England

Notes:

Keeper of Berwick Castle; Keeper of the Coast of Yorkshire and Northumberland; Keeper of Bamburgh and Skipton Castles; Warden of the Scottish Marches; Justiciar of the East March.

M.P. 1322-52, according to Ancestral Roots.

Great-grandfather of Henry "Hotspur" Percy.

"A powerful border lord, he was a justiciar and warden of the Scottish marches, participated frequently in raids, skirmishes, battles and sieges against the Scots, including the battle of Neville's Cross, where he commanded a division." [The Ancestry of Charles II]

Henry married Idoine de Clifford about 1318. Idoine (daughter of Robert de Clifford and Maud de Clare) was born in of Appleby, Westmorland, England; died on 24 Aug 1365; was buried in Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Ralph Daubeney before 8 Feb 1346. Ralph (son of Elias Daubeney and Joan) was born on 3 Mar 1305 in of South Ingleby, Lincolnshire, England; died after Nov 1378. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert de Lumley. Robert (son of Robert de Lumley and Mary Fitz Marmaduke) was born in of Lumley in Little Lumley, Durham, England; died before 20 Jul 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1304 she was "willingly taken away by certain unknown persons", and in September of that year she applied to Archbishop Thomas de Corbridge for a divorce from her husband William on grounds of consanguinity in the 4th degree as well as cruelty. She subsequently became the mistress of Nicholas de Meinell, sheriff of Yorkshire, bearing him an illegitimate son. In 1307 she and Nicholas were charged with adultery; she obtained an aquittal by compurgation in September 1309. After finally becoming divorced from William in 1312, she married Robert de Everingham. In 1313 Robert complained that Nicholas de Meinell and others "came by arms with horses to Everingham, Yorkshire, and abducted his wife, Lucy." After Robert's death in 1316, she married Bartholomew de Fanacourt.

Family/Spouse: Nicholas de Meinell. Nicholas (son of Nicholas de Meinell and Christian) was born on 6 Dec 1274 in of Whorlton, Yorkshire, England; died on 26 Apr 1322. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married William le Latimer before 20 Apr 1295, and was divorced before 22 Jul 1312. William (son of William le Latimer and Alice Ledet) was born about 1277 in of Danby, Yorkshire, England; died on 27 Feb 1327; was buried in Guisborough, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Alice.

Family/Spouse: Nicholas d'Engaine. Nicholas (son of John d'Engaine and Joan de Greinville) was born in of Colne Engaine, Essex, England; died on 4 Dec 1322. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 18 Sep 1349

Notes:

Sheriff of Yorkshire 1341-2; Constable of York Castle and Berwick-on-Tweed.

Summoned to Parliament by writ 22 Jan 1336 to 10 Mar 1349.

Family/Spouse: Eve de Bulmer. Eve (daughter of Ralph de Bulmer and (Unknown first wife of Ralph de Bulmere)) was born in of Wilton, Yorkshire, England; died before Sep 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Salvain before 1307. John (son of Gerard Salvain and Margery) was born about 1280 in Yorkshire, England; died between 1312 and 1320. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Walkingham, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 23 Jun 1324

Gilbert married Agnes Fitz Alan before 15 Dec 1317. Agnes (daughter of Brian Fitz Alan and Maud) was born about 1298; died before 3 Nov 1348. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1290

Family/Spouse: Lucy de Thweng. Lucy (daughter of Marmaduke de Thweng and Isabel de Ros) was born about 1290 in Kilton Castle, Cleveland, Yorkshire, England; died before 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[L]iving 1350 when styled Countess of Caithness and Orkney." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Marjorie married Malise of Strathearn between 1325 and 1328. Malise (son of Malise of Strathearn and (Unknown first wife of Malise, 7th earl of Strathearn)) died between 7 Jun 1344 and 11 Nov 1357. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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5th Earl of Ross.

From Wikipedia (accessed 31 May 2021):

William was the son of Hugh, Earl of Ross, and his wife Matilda Bruce, daughter of Robert de Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale. He was first cousin to David II, king of Scotland, through his mother, who was a sister of Robert the Bruce.

William was in Norway at the time of his father's death at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, but returned in 1336 and took possession of the earldom. Soon after his return, the earl undertook the rebuilding of the ruinous Fearn Abbey, which had been founded by Fearchar MacTaggart in the previous century.

The life of William, Earl of Ross, is closely entwined with the political and military events of the reign of David II, who was ever vigilant to repel the English as they undertook to expand their influence in Scotland. In 1339, the English, in support of Edward Baliol's claim to the Scottish crown, had planted themselves in Perth, and the earl played a key role in David's siege of Perth. Aware that the defensive channel of water around the town made it difficult for the Scots to enter the city, Ross and his men diverted the waters and filled in the ditch with driftwood, giving them access to the city walls. At this point, the English decided to give up the cause and pulled out.

In 1342, Ross granted a charter for ten davochs (about 4,160 acres or 104 Scots acres) of land in Kintail to Ronald MacRuari (Raghnall MacRuaidhrí), Lord of the Isles, a descendant of Somerled.

In 1346, David summoned his earls and their men to gather at Perth in advance of an incursion into England. However, before the assembled army pulled out, William became embroiled in a dispute with his vassal Ronald MacRuari and killed him at the priory of Elcho. Fearing repercussions, the earl pulled back to the safety of his own territories, and many other northern lords followed suit. David continued south into England where he was taken captive in Durham for what turned out to be a period of eleven years.

While David was imprisoned, Earl William undertook additional measures that ultimately would alienate the king, as evidenced by court records showing that he seized all the proceeds of the court in 1348. However, in 1349, David, while still in captivity, was still relying on William in his role as justiciar of Scotland north of the Forth, by asking him to attend to a matter involving William de Deyn, Bishop of Aberdeen, in his conflict with William of St. Michael, who had seized some property of the Church. This case was resolved in Aberdeenshire at one of the courts which were still being held at the ancient Stone Circles of northern Scotland.

Nonetheless, William's behavior at the priory of Elchor, combined with his less than honorable behavior in 1348, had eroded the king's trust in him, and by 1355 he had been replaced as justiciar.

In 1357, Earl William attended the session of Parliament where plans for the ransom of David II were discussed. Accordingly, on 3 October, the king of Scotland was finally released at Berwick on the condition that the ransom payment be secured by the taking of twenty hostages, with Earl William (or possibly his young son) named as one of the six noblemen to serve as hostages on a rotating basis.

Upon David's return to Scotland, he imposed heavy taxation on his nobles in order to pay his ransom, a move which led to a rebellion of the Highland lords, including William and his half-brother, Hugh de Rarichies, in 1366. In 1368, Ross and the others were required to find security to keep the peace.

Near the end of his life, William was forced to change the entail on his earldom. His only son, William, was a sickly lad, and the earl was well aware that if the boy died, leaving him without a male heir, the earldom would pass out of the Mactaggart family. To prevent this from coming to pass, he consulted with his sister Marjory, Countess of Caithness and Orkney, who consented to entailing the earldom to their half-brother, Hugh of Rarichies. This arrangement, which happened in 1350, would have had the effect of preserving the earldom in the Mactaggart family. Although young William was named in 1354 as one of the hostages for the king's ransom, records show that by August 1357 he was quite ill and must have died soon after. Indeed, in 1357, young William died, but fourteen years later, King David, never fond of William for his earlier bad decisions, ripped the earldom out of the Mactaggart line.

Instead of agreeing that Hugh of Rarichies would succeed William, the king settled the earldom on William's daughter, Euphemia, and then forced her to marry Walter de Leslie, who had made a name for himself fighting with the king of France, with the Holy Roman Emperors in the Northern Crusades, and with Peter of Cyprus on his Alexandrian Crusade. David II wished to reward this internationally renowned Scotsman for his bravery by settling an earldom on him. To this end, at Perth on 23 October 1370, David took the step of re-confirming William in the earldom of Ross and lordship of Skye, but only with the unwelcome stipulation that he must give his daughter in marriage to Leslie. Though Ross planned to seek help through the chancellor, he was stopped by the forces of Walter Leslie, who waylaid and attacked his emissaries. In 1371, after King David died, William appealed to Robert II, whom he had fought with at the Siege of Perth when Robert was High Steward of Scotland, but to no avail.

William, Earl of Ross, died on 9 February 1372 at Denly in Ross-shire, the last of the O’Baleon earls of Ross. He was succeeded by his daughter Euphemia and her husband Walter de Lesley.

William married Mary of the Isles on 25 May 1342. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died "during her second pregnancy from a fall from a horse. In her issue heiress to Scotland." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Marjory married Walter Stewart after 25 Apr 1315. Walter (son of James Stewart and Giles de Burgh) was born about 1297; died on 9 Apr 1327 in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Sent to France in 1334 along with her brother King David II and her sister Margaret for their safety, returned in 1341." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]

Matilda married Thomas Isaac after Jun 1342. Thomas died after Nov 1364. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Joan, Queen Consort of Scotland on 17 Jul 1328 in Berwick, Northumberland, England. Joan (daughter of Edward II, King of England and Isabella of France, Queen Consort of England) was born on 5 Jul 1321 in Tower of London, London, England; died on 7 Sep 1362; was buried in Church of the Grey Friars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Margaret Drummond before Feb 1364, and was divorced about 20 Mar 1370. Margaret (daughter of Malcolm Drummond) died after 31 Jan 1375. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas de Ufford. Thomas died between 23 Jun 1314 and 24 Jun 1314 in Bannockburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Ralph (de Neville), Lord Neville, 2nd but 1st surviving son, was aged 40 and more at his father's death. He was taken prisoner with his younger brothers at Berwick in 1319. He had begun his long career of public service and official work already in 1322, when he was constable of Warkworth Castle, and serving in the Marches under the Earl of Carlisle. In 1324 he was appointed with the Earl of Angus to escort the envoys of Robert Bruce to York, to treat of peace, and in 1325 commissioner to keep the truce in Northumberland. At the time of his father's death he was already steward of the King's household. In the following January he indented to serve Sir Henry Percy, and in July was commissioned to take over the keepership of the Forest beyond Trent. He was present at the surrender of Berwick Castle to Edward III, July 1333, and again with the King in Scotland in 1334 (June-October) and in the summer of 1335; joint commissioner, 1333 and 1334, to Edward Baliol's Parliament, to demand confirmation of covenants, and in 1334 Warden of the Scottish Marches, some time sole and some time with Percy; in the same year chief of the justices in eyre of the Forest (Notts and Yorks) for that turn; in 1335 he was made keeper of Bamburgh Castle for life, and by Mar. 1336/7 was a banneret. In July 1338 and June 1340 he was appointed on the Council of Prince Edward as Keeper of the Realm, and (by the Bishop) overseer of the keepers of the temporalities of the see of Durham during his absence on the King's service. He commanded the first division at the victory of Durham, or Nevill's Cross, 17 October 1346, where King David of Scotland was taken prisoner; and took part in the naval success against the Spaniards off Winchelsea, 29 Aug. 1350." [Complete Peerage]

Unmentioned by CP, but he was educated at Oxford. He was the first layman to be buried at Durham Cathedral, in recognition of his role in the victory at Nevill's Cross.

Ralph married Alice de Audley after 14 Jan 1327. Alice (daughter of Hugh de Audley and Isolde le Rous) was born about 1300; died on 12 Jan 1374; was buried in Durham Cathedral, Durham, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1357, Crete

Notes:

Not to be confused with his uncle Patrick, 8th Earl of Dunbar, who married Agnes Randolph, sister of this Patrick's wife Isabella Randolph. Agnes was "Black Agnes", renowned for her heroic defense of Dunbar Castle against an English siege.

"[F]ought against the English at the battles of Neville's Cross near Durham (1346) and Poitiers (1356)." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]

Patrick married Isabel Randolph about 1340. Isabel (daughter of Thomas Randolph and Isabel Stewart) was born about 1320; died after 1360. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]