Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale

Robert de Brus, the Noble (ca. 11951245 [1]) was 4th Lord of Annandale.

Robert de Brus
4th Lord of Annandale
PredecessorWilliam de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
SuccessorRobert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
Bornc. 1195
Died1226 (aged 3031)
BuriedGisborough Priory, Guisborough, Yorkshire
Spouse(s)Isobel of Huntingdon
Issue
FatherWilliam de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
MotherChristina mac Uchtred

He was the son of William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale and Christina mac Uchtred[2] [3]

Robert had the same name as both his uncle and his grandfather. His uncle died before becoming Lord of Annandale, and therefore, his father, William, inherited the title, becoming 3rd Lord of Annandale. Robert married ca. 1219 Isobel of Huntingdon, the second daughter of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, by which marriage he acquired the manors of Writtle and Hatfield Broadoak, Essex in England.[4] They had 2 children:

He died sometime between 1226 and 1233, and was buried in Gisborough Priory or in Sawtry Abbey.[7]

Notes

  1. Mackay, Aeneas James George (1886). "Bruce, Robert (d.1245)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 115.
  2. Dictionary of National Biography
  3. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  4. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, Baltimore, Md., 2005, p.731-2, ISBN 0-8063-1759-0
  5. Dictionary of National Biography
  6. http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm#_Toc389122944
  7. Marek, Miroslav (6 June 2003). "Bruce". Genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved 2 March 2012.

References

  • Duncan, A. A. M., ‘Brus , Robert (II) de, lord of Annandale (d. 1194?)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 14 Nov 2006
Preceded by
William de Brus
Lord of Annandale
1211 x 1212 - 1226 x 1233
Succeeded by
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
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