The Brus Family in England and Scotland, 1100-1295Boydell Press, 2005 - 271 pages Survey of the activities of one of the most important cross-Border families, the ancestors of Robert the Bruce. Robert de Brus, the "conquisitor of Cleveland, Hartness and Annandale", who came into England among the followers of Henry I, was also a close companion and mentor of David I, king of Scots. The lands he acquired from bothkings were divided between his sons, from whom two lines descended: the lords of Skelton, influential Northerners who played an active part during the baronial troubles in the reigns of John and Henry III, and the prominent cross-Border lords of Annandale, co-heirs of the substantial Chester and Huntingdon estates and progenitors of King Robert Bruce. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
The Scottish succession | 72 |
Family connections of Isabel of Huntingdon and Isabel de Clare | 73 |
Conjectured descent of the families of Turp and Seton | 143 |
Analysis of witness numbers | 147 |
Conclusion | 181 |
The Brus Barony in Yorkshire | 187 |
East Riding | 188 |
Lands acquired from the honor of Chester | 192 |
Lands acquired from the MortainSourdeval estates | 193 |
Additional Yorkshire lands miscellaneous | 194 |
The Brus Inheritance in the Honors of Chester | 195 |
The Brus share of the honor of Huntingdon | 196 |
Beneficiaries of Brus grants | 200 |
Bibliography | 233 |
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