BRUCE, Robert I

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• Name	BRUCE, Robert
  Suffix	I
  Birth	1078	Annadale, Dumfrieshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 May 1141	Skelton, Yorkshire, England
  Burial	11 May 1141	Guisborough, Yorkshire, England
  WAC	21 Mar 1933	ARIZO
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  Father	Robert Adam Brus ,   b. 1033, Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle, Saint-Lô, Manche, Normandy, France Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle, Saint-Lô, Manche, Normandy, Franced. 1081, Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England (Age 48 years)
  Mother	RAMSEY, Emma ,   b. 1062, Carrick, Argyll, Scotland Carrick, Argyll, Scotlandd. 1094, Carrick, Argyll, Scotland (Age 32 years)
  Family ID	F25115	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	PAGNEL, Agnes ,   b. Abt 1076, Skelton, Yorkshire, England Skelton, Yorkshire, Englandd. 11 May 1141, Skelton, Yorkshire, England (Age 65 years)
  Children	3 sons and 1 daughter
  + 1. BRUS, Lord Adam de I ,   b. Abt 1101, Skelton, Yorkshire, England Skelton, Yorkshire, Englandd. 20 Mar 1166, Skelton, Yorkshire, England (Age 65 years)   2. BRUCE, Baron Robert Le Meschin II ,   b. Abt 1103, Annandale, Dumfrieshire, Scotland Annandale, Dumfrieshire, Scotlandd. 1189, Annandale, Dumfrieshire, Scotland (Age 86 years)   3. BRUCE, Agatha ,   b. Abt 1105, Skelton, Yorkshire, England Skelton, Yorkshire, Englandd. 1142, Yorkshire, England (Age 37 years)   4. BRUCE, Pagon de ,   b. Abt 1107, Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotlandd. 1189, Annandale, Dumfries-shire, Scotland (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F18081	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	ANNANDALE, Agnes ,   b. 1075, Skelton, Yorkshire, England Skelton, Yorkshire, Englandd. 1170, Skelton, Yorkshire, England (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	1096	Skelton, Yorkshire, England
  Family ID	F25236	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  He had two wives in record with both names Agnes. Do not merge them as they are different. DO NOT USE GEDCOM FILE DATA ON ANCIENT LINES, only use VERIFIED information, these lines are very delicate and sourced and merged well... If Robert de Brus was born in 1150 he would have been born after his children and after his parents died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Brus,_1st_Lord_of_Annandale Robert I de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale (c. 1070 – 1142) was an early 12th century Anglo-Norman baron and knight, the first of the Bruce dynasty to hold lands in Scotland. A monastic patron, he is remembered as the founder of Gisborough Priory in Yorkshire, in present-day Redcar and Cleveland, in 1119. Robert is given by some Victorian historians as a son of Adam de Brus, by his spouse Emma de Ramsay. Cockayne states that the family name is derived from Bruis, now Brix, in the arrondissement of Valognes. Some modern historians contend that the name may have come from Brix, Manche, near Cherbourg in the Cotentin Peninsula, and that they came to England after King Henry I of England's conquest of Normandy (i.e.: at the same time as Alan fitz Flaad, the FitzAlan ancestor of the Stuart Royal Family, nowithstanding that they were Bretons). What is known clearly is that this Robert de Brus is first mentioned during the period 1094 and 1100, as a witness to a charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, granting the church of Flamborough, Yorkshire, to the church of Whitby. Possibly the Earl of Chester about 1100–1104 enfeoffed Robert of certain portions of his Cleveland fee in Lofthouse, Upleatham, Barwick, Ingleby, and other places. Between 1103–1106 Robert de Brus attested with Ralph de Paynel and 16 others a charter of William, Count of Mortain, to the abbey of Marmoutier. In 1109 at a Council of all England held at Nottingham, he attested the charter of King Henry 1st confirming to the church of Durham certain possessions which the men of Northumberland had claimed. During the period 1109–1114 he appears in early charters in possession of numerous other manors and lands in Yorkshire, and in the same period he attested a charter of Henry 1st issued at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. He appears in the Lindsey Survey made 1115–1118 in possession of even further lands. There is a strong presumption that King Henry 1st had given Robert his Yorkshire fee soon after the battle of Tinchebrai (28 September 1106). Robert was present at the great gathering of northern magnates at Durham in 1121, and sometime during the period 1124–1130 he was with the King at Brampton. About 1131 Robert de Brus was in the retinue of Henry 1st at Lions, in Eure. About the same time he attested with three of his personal knights a confirmation with Alan de Percy to the monks of Whitby. It is said that Robert had been given some 80 manors in Yorkshire by King Henry. It is evident that Robert kept up his connexions with other Normans too. A member of the Feugeres family, of Feugeres, Calvados, arr.Bayeux, canton of Isigny, witnessed charters of this Robert de Brus circa 1135 in Yorkshire. Scotland The friendship between Robert de Brus and David FitzMalcolm (after 1124 King David I of Scotland), who was present in France with King Henry and was granted much of the Cotentin Peninsula, may have commenced at least as early as 1120, at Henry's Court. When David became king, he settled upon his military companion and friend the Lordship of Annandale, in 1124, There is, however, scant evidence that this Robert ever took up residence on his Scottish estates. After the death of King Henry, David refused to recognise Henry's successor, King Stephen. Instead David supported the claim of his niece and Stephen's cousin, Empress Matilda, to the English throne and taking advantage of the chaos in England due to the disputed succession there, he took the chance to realise his son's claim to Northumberland. These actions Robert de Brus of Annandale could not countenance and as a result he and King David parted company, with Robert bitterly renouncing his homage to David before taking the English side at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. Before the battle, Robert had made an impassioned plea to David, calling to his remembrance how he and other Normans had by their influence in Scotland, as far back as 1107, obliged King Alexander to give a part of the Scottish Kingdom to his brother David. The appeal was in vain. Robert, and his eldest son Adam, joined the English army, while his younger son, Robert, with an eye on his Scottish inheritance, fought for David. Marriage Robert is said to have married twice: (1) Agnes, daughter of Geoffrey Bainard, Sheriff of York and (2) Agnes, daughter and heiress of Fulk de Paynel of Carleton, North Yorkshire. Farrer mentions both marriages and in particular points out that the superior of Carleton Manor was de Brus, and that Paynel held it of him. It is unclear by which spouse his sons were but authorities usually give her as Agnes de Paynel. Adam de Brus (1), eldest son and heir upon whom devolved, under feudal law, all the English estates. he only survived his father by 12 months, having married Jueta, daughter and heiress of William de Arches. She outlived her husband by decades, dying just after 1202. Robert de Brus, the younger son, upon whom his father had settled the Scottish Lordship of Annandale, plus several wheat-producing ploughates at Skelton, Yorkshire, in his lifetime