Robert II de Brus, ''le Meschin (the Cadet)'' (

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1138, died ) was a 12th-century

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noble and 2nd

Lord of Annandale The Lordship of Annandale was a sub-comital lordship in southern Scotland (Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway, Annandale) established by David I of Scotland by 1124 for his follower Robert de Brus. The following were holders of the office: *Robert ...

. He was the son, perhaps the second son, of

Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale Robert I de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale and 1st Lord of Skelton (–1141), was an early-12th-century Anglo-Norman lord and the first of the Clan Bruce, Bruce dynasty to hold lands in Scotland. A monastic patron, he is remembered as the founder of ...

, and wife Agnes.

Life

The elder de Brus' allegiances were compromised when

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invaded England in the later 1130s, and he had renounced his fealty to David before the

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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 de Brus, 2nd Lord of Skelton. Bruce family tradition has it that Robert II was captured by his father at the battle and given over to King

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. A legend tells that in the 1140s, Robert II was visited at Annan by

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. St Malachy asked Robert to pardon a thief, but Robert hanged him anyway, and for this the

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destroyed part of his castle and the de Brus line received a curse from the holy man. Robert made

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the centre of his lordship and constructed a new ''caput'' there. He married Euphemia, possibly the daughter of Sir Adam de Crosebi or Crosbj of Albemarle (b. ca. 1098). They had three known children: * Robert (d. ca. 1191), eldest son. *

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(d. 1212). * Bernard. Robert was buried at

Gisborough Priory Gisborough Priory is a ruined Augustinian priory in Guisborough in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1119 as the Priory of St Mary by the Norman feudal magnate Robert de Brus, an ancestor of the Sc ...

in the North Riding,

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, 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.

Robert III de Brus

Robert III de Brus (

12th century, died ca. 1191) was the oldest son of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale. He predeceased his father, and so did not inherit the lordship of Annandale, which passed to his brother,

William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale 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 ...

. He married in 1183 Isabella Mac William (''Isibéal inghean Uilleim''), illegitimate daughter of King

William I of Scotland William the Lion (), sometimes styled William I (; ) and also known by the nickname ; e.g. Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1214.6; Annals of Loch Cé, s.a. 1213.10. ( 1142 – 4 December 1214), reigned as King of Alba from 1165 to 1214. His almost 49 ...

through the latter's liaison with a daughter of

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lord of Eskdale. There were no children.''

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'', Vol. I, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 5.

Footnotes

References

* * Burke, Messrs. John and John Bernard, ''The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants'', etc., London, 1848: vol.1, pedigree XXXIV. * Duncan, A.A.M., ‘Brus , Robert (I) de, lord of Annandale (d. 1142)’, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
, 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, 200
, accessed 14 Nov 2006
* Flower, William,

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, ''The Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563/4'', (edited by Charles B. Northcliffe, M.A., of Langton) London, 1881, p. 40. *

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, ''David: The King Who Made Scotland'', (Gloucestershire, 2004)
The Robert the Bruce Commemoration Trust's, Genealogy
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