Robert de Bruis

• Preferred Name: Robert de Bruis
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: ABT 1030 in Bruis Castle, Brix, Manche, Normandy, France at LATI: N9.5455 LONG: E1.5784
  
• FSID: 93GH-T29
  
• Death: Y
  
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  === Brus Family Origins ===
  The family descendant from Robert de Brus I, who witness charters in the early years of the twelfth century, including one of King Henry 1 in 1109, and fought at the Battle of the Standard in 1138, dying in 1142; there is evidence that he was given his Yorkshire lands soon after the battle of Tinchebrai in 1106. It is possible that the place of origin of this family was Brix dep, Manche arr. and cant. Valognes.
  
  From his elder son Adam de Bruis 1, the family descended in the male line to Peter de Bruis III who died in 1272, leaving sisters as his coheirs.
  
  Robert Bruce King of Scotland, descended form Robert the younger son of Robert de Brus 1.
  
  Early Yorkshire Families
  edited by Charles Clay, Diana E. Greenway
  
  === About Adam de Brus, Baron of Skelton, Lord of Cleveland
  
  Lyman Horace Weeks, Book of Bruce, 1907, New York: The Americana Society
  
  http://archive.org/stream/bookofbruceances00week/bookofbruceances00week_djvu.txt pp. 56-57
  
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  Adelme or Adam de Brusee, s ===
  About Adam de Brus, Baron of Skelton, Lord of Cleveland
  
  Lyman Horace Weeks, Book of Bruce, 1907, New York: The Americana Society
  
  http://archive.org/stream/bookofbruceances00week/bookofbruceances00week_djvu.txt pp. 56-57
  
  XIV
  
  Adelme or Adam de Brusee, son of the preceding, came into England in 1050, in attendance upon Emma of Nor- mandy, who was a daughter of Richard I. of Normandy by his wife Gonnor, and became the Queen of Ethelred, King of England. After the death of Queen Emma he went to Scot- land, to which country he was naturally attracted by the family connection that existed through his ancestors of six and seven generations before, the earls of Orkney, Shetland, Gathanes, and Sutherland. When William the Conqueror came to England de Brusee joined the army of the invader, and after the conquest he received the barony of Skelton and the lordship of Cleveland as a reward for his services. Of all the Yorkshire manors the chief was that of Skelton in Cleveland, near Whitby. This became the seat of the elder or English branch of the Bruce family.
  
  Adam de Brusee died before the fourteenth year of the reign of William I., 1080.
  
  He married Emma, daughter of Sir William Ramsay.
  
  Issue:
  
  1. Robert de Brusee, of whom below.
  
  2. William de Brusee, who was the first prior of Guisburn. He died in 1155.
  
  3. Duncan. A lord in Scotland.
  
  4. Rosselina, who married Walter Moreville, constable of Scotland.

1. Adam de Bruis, b. ABT 1051 in Bramber Castle, Sussex, England     d. ABT 1081 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England