Robert (Brus) de Brus (abt. 1051 - 1094)

Born about 1051 in Normandy, France

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Died 1094 at about age 43 in Cleveland, Durham, England

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NOTE: This profile represents one fantasy proposal about the parentage of the real Robert I de Brus who came to England about 1100. This is not the profile for the real person.

The real first Robert is Brus-141.

He has been detached from Agnes (St Clair) de Braose (abt.1053-) as wife.

Sources

• Blakely, Ruth M., "The Bruses of Skelton and William of Aumale," The Yorkshire Archaelogical Journal Vol. 73 (2001) (The Yorkshire Archaeological Society.), p. 20, Family History Library.
• Carpenter, David X. (2013 version) ROBERT DE BRUS, Tenant in chief in Yorkshire and Annandale" on Charters of William II and Henry I Project
• Clay, Charles Travis, "Brus" in Early Yorkshire Families (Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1973.), p. 8, Family History Library, 942.74 B4a v. 135. [Available on Ancestry.com]
• Cockayne, Gibbs, et al. "Brus or Bruce" in Complete Peerage, 2nd ed., Vol.2 p.358 [Downloadable at Familysearch.org]
• Sanders, Ivor John, "Skelton" in English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.), p. 77.
• Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., "Rotbert De Bruis" in Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999.), p. 415,
• Turton, William Harry, The Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1968.), p. 140, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.721 P713Tu 1968 folio.

Additional Reading

• Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 1904 (online version available Duncan, ODNB Brus [Bruce, Robert de (supp. d. 1094) 2004] Once thought to have been ancestor of Bruce family. Dismisses Leland's Collectanea as source as unreliable
• Sherlock, Stephen. "Gisborough Priory: Information for Teachers" English Heritage. 2001. 1 Oct 2008.
• Donaldson, Gordon, Scottish Historical Documents, Edinburgh, 1970, ISBN 7011-1604-8 :19, "David by the grace of God King of Scots, to all his barons, men, and friends, French and English, greeting. Know ye that I have given and granted to Robert de Brus Estrahanent (i.e: Annandale) and all the land from the boundary of Randolph Meschin; and I will and grant that he should hold and have that land and its castle well and honourably with all its customs," &c. This is a new charter and not a reconfirmation.
• Burton, John Hill, The History of Scotland, New revised edition, Edinburgh, 1876, vol.1, p.437
• Burke (1883) p.80, 504.
• Foster, Joseph, The Dictionary of Heraldry - Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees, London, 1989 (reprint of 1902 original), p.180-1
• Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, Md., 2004, p.682, ISBN 0-8063-1750-7
• Norcliffe, Charles Best, of Langton, MA., editor, The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563-64 by William Flower, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, London, 1881, p.295.
• Duncan, A.A.M., 'de Brus, Robert (I), Lord of Annandale (d. 1142)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3748. Retrieved 28 October 2008.
• Richard Oram, David I: The King Who Made Scotland , (Gloucestershire: History Press Limited, 2008), .
• Ruth Margaret Blakely, The Brus family in England and Scotland : 1100-1295 , (New York: Boydell Press, 2005), .
• Paget, Gerald, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977.), p. 155, Family History Library, 942 D22pg.
• Watney, Vernon James, The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry (Oxford: John Johnson, 1928.), 1:164, Family History Library, 929.242 W159w.