Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale (around 1195)

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Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale (also Robert (IV) de Brus ) (* around 1195, † between 1226 and 1233) was an Anglo-Scottish nobleman.

origin

Robert de Brus came from the Brus family . He was the eldest son of William de Brus and his wife Christina . After his father's death in 1211 or 1212, he was heir to his estates, including the Scottish Crown Fief Annandale and lands in Cumberland and Yorkshire in northern England.

Activity as a Scottish and English nobleman

Brus was of legal age in 1215 when he received minor tokens of favor from King Johann Ohneland of England , including the premature transfer of his father's English inheritance and confirmation of the right to hold a fair in Hartlepool . At this time the king was faced with an opposition to the aristocracy, which mainly included barons from the north of England, and he apparently tried to win the support of Brus. A little later, the barons forced the king to recognize the Magna Carta , and when the king revoked his recognition a few weeks later, the first war between the barons and the king broke out. In fact, there is no evidence that Brus took part in the barons' battle against the king. Brus also apparently did not take part in the campaigns of the Scottish King Alexander II, who was allied with the rebellious barons, to England, although the Scottish king had certainly requested his vassal services. His distant cousin Peter de Brus, Lord of Skelton , on the other hand, was one of the rebelling barons. After the end of the war of the barons, Brus testified to the marriage agreement of Alexander II with the English king's daughter Johanna in 1221 . Until 1226, the English crown had demanded shield money from him, after which there was no evidence that he was still alive. The year of his death is unknown, but he died on April 21st or August 26th. Certainly he had died before March 1234 when Peter de Brus was administering Hartlepool. For a long time it was assumed that he did not die until 1245. He may have had an accident or was otherwise impaired after 1221, so that his brother William took over the management of his estates. Traditionally he was also known as Robert the Noble , but that designation applied to his son and heir. In fact, he had to sell Edenhall in Cumberland.

Marriage and offspring

Brus had married Isabel, the second daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon . The marriage likely took place not long before Earl David's death in 1219, and as a dowry he received land holdings in southern England. The amount of his dowry is unknown. There is no credible evidence that the marriage had a son as early as 1210. Brus was buried in Guisborough Priory . He presumably had several children, but only one son is known to become his heir:

His widow survived and did not die until 1251. She was buried at Sawtry Abbey in Huntingdonshire . After the childless death of her brother John, Earl of Huntingdon, she became one of his heiresses.

literature

  • AAM Duncan: The Bruces of Annandale, 1100-1304 . In: Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society . 3rd Ser., 69: 89-102 (1994)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AAM Duncan: The Bruces of Annandale, 1100-1304 . In: Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society . 3rd Ser., 69: 95 (1994)
  2. ^ AAM Duncan: The Bruces of Annandale, 1100-1304 . In: Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society . 3rd Ser., 69: 96 (1994)
  3. ^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME de Brus, Robert, Lord of Annandale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Brus, Robert (IV)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-Scottish nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1195
DATE OF DEATH between 1226 and 1233