Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale

Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale

Robert II de Brus, "The Cadet", (died 1194) was a 12th century Norman noble and Lord of Annandale. He was the son, perhaps the second son, [ Burke's "The Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire" 1883: 80] of Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale.

The elder de Brus' allegiances were compromised when David 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 hung 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.

Robert was buried at Guisborough Priory in North Riding, Yorkshire, 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.

He married Euphemia, a daughter of William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle, and had five known children,

*Robert (d. 1191), eldest son.
*William (d. 1212).
*Bernard.
*Agatha.
*Euphemia

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.
* 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 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3748 , 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 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3749 , accessed 14 Nov 2006]
* Oram, Richard, "David: The King Who Made Scotland", (Gloucestershire, 2004)


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