William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale (died 16 July 1212), was the second but eldest surviving son of
Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, and Euphemia.
Life
His elder brother,
Robert III de Brus, predeceased their father, never holding the lordship of
Annandale. William de Brus thus succeeded his father when the latter died in 1194.
William de Brus possessed large estates in the north of England. He obtained from
John, King of England
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, the grant of a weekly market at
Hartlepool
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, and granted lands to the canons of
Gisburn.
[ Burke, Bernard, Sir, CB., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, ''The Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire'', London, 1883, p. 80.] Very little else is known about William's activities. He makes a few appearances in the English government records and witnessed a charter of
William the Lion
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, King of Scotland.
He married Christina mac Uhtred, daughter of
Uhtred of Galloway and Gunhilda of Dunbar, and had by her three sons:
*
Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale (died 1226), married
Isobel of Huntingdon, had issue.
* John de Brus
* William de Brus
William de Brus died on 16 July 1212 and was survived by his wife Christina who went on to remarry, as his second wife,
Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar.
Notes
References
* Burke, Messrs.,
John
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and
John Bernard, ''The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with Their Descendants'', &c., London, 1848: vol. 1, pedigree XXXIV.
* Northcliffe, Charles B., of Langon, MA., editor, ''The Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563/4'' by
William Flower,
Norroy King of Arms
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, London, 1881, p. 40.
*
Duncan, A. A. M., �
Brus , Robert (II) de, lord of Annandale (d. 1194?)��, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004
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Year of birth uncertain
1212 deaths
William
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Scoto-Normans
Lords of Annandale