Clan Bruce

Clan Bruce kin
	Airth, Bruwes, Bruss, Bruc, Bruys, Brues, Brice, Bryce, Bruce, Bruice, Bruis, Bruze, Broce, Brois, Broiss, Brose, Broise, Brouss, Brus, Bruse, Carlysle, Carruthers, Crosbie, De Brix, Leggat , Randolph, Stenhouse

Chief
;
The Rt. Hon. Andrew Douglas Bruce
11th Earl of Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine
Seat	Broomhall
Historic seat	Lochmaben Castle ; Clackmannan Tower

Clan Bruce
coat of arms
	Motto : Fuimus ( "We have been")
portrait
region	Lowlands
district	Fife (Scotland)
Gaelic names	Brùs

Clan branches
Bruce of Elgin (chiefs) Bruce of Kincardine

The Scottish Clan Bruce ( Scottish Gaelic : Clann Brus ) comes from Kincardine in Scotland . In the 14th century he hired two Scottish kings .

history

The name Bruce comes from the French 'de Brus' or 'de Bruis'. That was the name of a place in Normandy, now Brix , between Cherbourg and Valognes . The founder of the clan is said to have been Robert de Brus , a Norman knight who came to England with William the Conqueror . There is a historical record of Robert de Brus († 1142), who at the latest in 1109 had acquired some estates and lands in Yorkshire and in 1124 as the feudal Lord of Annandale also acquired property in Scotland. His great-grandson Robert de Brus († between 1226 and 1233) married Isabella, a daughter of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon , a grandson of King David I of the Dunkeld family in 1219 . Through their bloodline whose grandson was Robert de Bruce (1306-1329) derive a claim to the Scottish throne, in his coronation as 1306 I. Robert led. When his son King David II died childless in 1371, the crown passed to the House of Stuart .

The clan motto is Fuimus ("We have been").

Kings from the clan

Robert I (Robert The Bruce), King of Scotland (1306-1329)
David II , son of Robert I, King of Scotland (1329–1371)
Edward Bruce , brother of Robert I, High King of Ireland (1315-1318)

Nobility title

Members of the clan lead or carried the following nobility titles:

Earl of Carrick (1186, 1328)
Earl of Elgin (1633)
Earl of Kincardine (1647)
Earl of Ailesbury (1664)
Viscount Bruce of Ampthill (1664)
Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (1947)
Lord Kinloss (1602)
Lord Balfour of Burleigh (1607)
Lord Bruce of Kinloss (1608)
Lord Bruce of Torry (1647)
Baron Bruce of Annandale (1295)
Baron Bruce of Whorlton (1641)
Baron Bruce of Skelton (1664)
Baron Bruce of Tottenham (1746)
Baron Elgin (1849)
Baron Bruce of Donington (Life Peerage, 1975)
Baron Bruce-Gardyne (Life Peerage, 1983)
Baron Bruce-Lockhart (Life Peerage, 2006)
Baron Bruce of Bennachie (Life Peerage, 2015)
Bruce Baronet, of Stenhouse (1628)
Bruce Baronet, of Balcaskie (1668)
Bruce-Clifton Baronet, of Downhill (1804)
Bruce-Gardner Baronet, of Frilford (1945)

Clan families (Septs)

Airth, Bruwes, Bruss, Bruc, Bruys, Brues, Brice, Bruce, Bruice, Bruis, Bruze, Broce, Brois, Broiss, Brose, Broise, Brouss, Brus, Bruse, Carlysle, Carruthers, Crosbie, Randolph, Stenhouse

original Bruce family crest
Tartan the Bruce

Individual evidence

^ The Scottish Clans and Their Tartans. Library edition. W. & AK Johnston, Edinburgh et al. 1902, p. 2 , or Ruth M. Blakely: The Brus family in England and Scotland, 1100–1295. 2005, pp. 8-27.

literature

Ruth M. Blakely: The Brus family in England and Scotland, 1100-1295. Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2005, ISBN 1-84383-152-X , pp. 8-27 .
The Scottish Clans and Their Tartans. Library edition. W. & AK Johnston, Edinburgh et al. 1902.

[1] The Scottish Clans and Their Tartans. Library edition. W. & AK Johnston, Edinburgh et al. 1902, p. 2 , or Ruth M. Blakely: The Brus family in England and Scotland, 1100–1295. 2005, pp. 8-27.