Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale

Robert de Brus
4th Lord of Annandale
Predecessor William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
Born c. 1195
Died 1226
Burial Gisborough Priory, Guisborough, Yorkshire
Spouse Isobel of Huntingdon
Issue Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
Bernard de Brus
Father William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
Mother Beatrice de Teyden or Christina

Robert de Brus, the Noble (ca. 1195–1245 [1]) was 4th Lord of Annandale.

He was the son of William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale and Christina[2] or Beatrice de Teyden.[3]

Robert had the same name as both his uncle and his grandfather. His uncle died before becoming Lord of Annandale, so William became 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 his heir and successor, and a daughter:

He died sometime between 1226 and 1233, and was buried in Gisborough Priory or in Sawtry Abbey.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑  Mackay, Aeneas James George (1886). "Bruce, Robert (d.1245)". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 115.
  2. ↑ Dictionary of National Biography
  3. ↑ thepeerage.com
  4. ↑ Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, Baltimore, Md., 2005, p.731-2, ISBN 0-8063-1759-0
  5. ↑ Marek, Miroslav (2003-06-06). "Bruce". Genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved 2012-03-02.

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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