Robert (Bruce) Bruce the Competitor Fifth Lord of Annandale (1210 - 1295)

Born 1210 in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Isabel (Clare) de Brus — married May 1240 in England [uncertain]

Husband of Christian (de Ireby) Ireby — married 3 May 1273 in Hoddam, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

Descendants

Died 31 Mar 1295 at about age 85 in Lochmaben Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

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Biography

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Titles of Sir Robert de Brus:^[1]

Governor of Carlisle Castle

Sheriff of Cumberland 1255, 1265^[2]

Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale (Robert de Brus), was a feudal lord, Justice and Constable of Scotland and England, a Regent of Scotland, and a leading competitor to be King of Scotland in 1290-92 in the Great Cause.^[1]

Robert was son of Robert Bruce, 4th Lord of Annandale and Isobel of Huntingdon, the second daughter of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon and Matilda de Kevilloc of Chester.^[1]

Robert was also Lord of Hartlepool in county Durham and Writtle and Hatfield Broadoak in Essex, England, and through his marriages obtained the village of Ripe, in Sussex, and the Lordship of Ireby in Cumberland. Following the defeat of Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham (1265), Robert was granted the estates of the former rebel barons Walter de Fauconberg and John de Melsa.^[1] Henry III also re-appointed Robert a Justice, and Constable of Carlisle Castle and keeper of the Castle there in 1267, a position he had been dismissed from in 1255, for his support during the rebellion.^[1]

It is believed Robert joined the princes Edward and Edmund on their 1270-4 crusade, as his sons failed to attend.

(Edward I decided in favour of the senior legitimate heir by primogeniture, John Balliol but in 1306 the crown was assumed by a grandson of the Bruce himself, who became King Robert I. In doing this, the rightful heir, John Balliol's own son, was smitten by his father's misfortune of having been placed on the throne in an inopportune period.)

Robert, 5th Lord of Annandale resigned the lordship of Annandale to his son, the Earl of Carrick, as well as his claim to the Crown. Shortly after this, Robert's daughter-in-law Marjorie died in 1292,and on the day of her death his son transferred Carrick to his eldest grandson, the future Robert I of Scotland thus making the boy the Earl of Carrick.

In 1292 Robert V de Brus held a market at Ireby, Cumberland, in right of his wife. The following year he had a market at Hartlepool, county Durham within the liberties of the Bishop of Durham.

Sir Robert de Brus died March 31, 1295 (new style) at Lochmaben Castle and was buried April 17 at Gisborough Priory (North Yorkshire)^[3].

Marriages and Children

He married firstly 12 May 1240^[3][4][2] Isabella, (2 November 1226- after 10 July 1264), daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford and 1st Earl of Gloucester and Lady Isabel Marshal of Pembroke, with issue.

For a discussion of controversies concerning their children and possible others see the profile of his wife. At present, Aug 13, 2015, likely bogus children remain attributed to him.

He married, secondly on 3 May 1275 at Hoddam, in the diocese of Glasgow, Christina (d. 1305), daughter and heiress of Sir William de Ireby of Ireby, Cumberland. They had no issue^[3][4][2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Wikipedia:Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, accessed 14 August 2015.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry (2013), volume I, pages 589-596 BRUS 6.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. London, 1910-1938. Vol. 2 pp 358-360.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, 1904-1913, pp. 430-432

See also:

• Duncan, A. A. M. "Brus [Bruce], Robert de [called Robert the Noble], lord of Annandale (c. 1220–1295), magnate and claimant to the Scottish throne." in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. January 03, 2008. Oxford University Press. Accessed 4 Mar 2020 at ODNB, with subscription.
• Bruce, Mary Elizabeth Cumming, Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns, with an historical introduction and appendix, etc. [With genealogical tables.], William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh, 1870, https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7047123A/Mary_Elizabeth_Cumming_Bruce.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
• Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650 6th ed. , Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1988
• Weis, Frederick Lewis, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1991

• Wikipedia: Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale

• Wikidata: Item Q2526281, en:Wikipedia