Sir Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale

Male 1138 - 1194  (~ 55 years)


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  • Name Robert de Brus 
    Title Sir 
    Suffix 2nd Lord of Annandale 
    Birth ~1138  (Annan) Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 1189-1194  [2
    Burial Gisborough Priory, Cleveland, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I46697  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2019 

    Father SIr Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale,   b. ~1070   d. 11 May 1142, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 71 years) 
    Mother Agnes de Paynel,   b. ~1095, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1170, Skelton, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 74 years) 
    Marriage ~1112  [1, 4
    Family ID F17105  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Euphemia de Crosebi,   b. (Aumale, France) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Y  [2
    Children 
     1. Robert de Brus,   b. (Annan) Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1191
     2. Sir William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale,   b. (Annan) Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jul 1212
    Family ID F17107  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - ~1138 - (Annan) Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Gisborough Priory, Cleveland, Yorkshire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Robert II de Brus
      Spouse(s) Euphemia de Crosebi
      Noble family Bruce
      Father Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale
      Mother Agnes
      Died c.?1189 or 1194
      Robert II de Brus, le Meschin (the Cadet) (fl. 1138, died c.?1189 or 1194), was a 12th-century Norman noble and 2nd Lord of Annandale. He was the son, perhaps the second son,[1] of Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale.

      The elder de Brus' allegiances were compromised when David I invaded England in the later 1130s, and he had renounced his fealty to David before the Battle of the Standard in 1138. The younger Robert however remained loyal and took over his father's land in Scotland, whilst the English territories remained with the elder Robert and passed to the latter's elder son Adam. Bruce family tradition has it that Robert II was captured by his father at the battle and given over to King Stephen of England.

      A legend tells that in the 1140s, Robert II was visited at Annan by St Malachy. St Malachy asked Robert to pardon a thief, but Robert hanged him anyway, and for this the River Annan destroyed part of his castle and the de Brus line received a curse from the holy man. Robert made Lochmaben the centre of his lordship and constructed a new caput there.

      He married Euphemia de Crosebi or Crosbj of Aumale, daughter of Sir Adam de Crosebi or Crosbj. They had five known children:

      Robert (d. 1191), eldest son.
      William (d. 1212).
      Bernard.
      Agatha.
      Euphemia.
      Robert was buried at Gisborough Priory in the North Riding, Yorkshire, England, a monastery founded by his father Robert I de Brus. As his eldest son, Robert, predeceased him, he was succeeded by his second son William.

      Footnotes

      Jump up ^ Burke's The Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire 1883: 80
      References[edit]
      Burke, Messrs. John and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, etc., London, 1848: vol.1, pedigree XXXIV.
      Flower, William, Norroy King of Arms, The Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563/4, (edited by Charles B. Northcliffe, M.A., of Langton) London, 1881, p.40.
      Duncan, A.A.M., ‘Brus , Robert (I) de, lord of Annandale (d. 1142)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 14 Nov 2006
      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
      Oram, Richard, David: The King Who Made Scotland, (Gloucestershire, 2004)
      The Robert the Bruce Commemoration Trust's, Genealogy, Crichton College of the University of Glasgow (Dept. of Scottish Studies) [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S9956] "Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale" biography, accessed & downloaded Thurssday, November 17th, 2016 by David A. Henn.

    2. [S9958] "Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale" biography, accessed & downloaded Thurssday, November 17th, 2016 by David A. Henn.

    3. [S12427] "Agnes (Pagnel) de Brus (abt. 1095 - 1170)", Ancestors, Desscendants & Biography, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pagnel-2.

    4. [S12420] "Robert (Brus) de Brus", Ancestors, Descendants & Biography, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brus-141, revisited or retrie.