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Source: Robert I de Bruce 1st Lord of Annandale in The Kirkpatrick Family Archives

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Titre	Robert I de Bruce 1st Lord of Annandale in The Kirkpatrick Family Archives

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The Kirkpatrick Family Archives, search Robert de Brus, born 1070; or use the above web page URL.

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Name Robert DE BRUCE Suffix 1st Lord of Skelton, 1st Lord of Annandale Born Abt 1070 Gender Male Died 11 May 1141 Gisborough Priory , North Yorkshire, England Notes The family name has also been spelt Bruis, Breaux or Brus. The original de Bruce family came from Normandy, when Robert, a Norman Knight (died c1094), accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066 (Ref-The Riverside Dictionary of Biography). They were granted forty-three manors in East and West Riding of Yorkshire and fifty-one manors in North Riding of Yorkshire. Robert was the founder of the Monastery in Gisborough, North Yorkshire, England The younger branch later migrated to Scotland. Robert, 1st Lord of Skelton, succeeded to the land of Annandale through his mother Agnes Aunard, his fathers second wife. The title Lords of Skelton passed from Bruce family hands in c1271 due to the lack of any male heirs to Peter de Bruce, 7th Lord of Skelton and his wife, Helena de Mildain. The huge estate was distributed amongst his four sisters. (Research): Due to the many differing versions of this family history, I have relied upon the records of the following references: Burkes Peerage; The Chronicles of the Closeburn Kirkpatricks by Alexander de LaPere Kirkpatrick; Kirkpatrick of Closeburn (memoir) published 1858 [by Richard Godman Kirkpatrick]; William Wallace: Guardian of Scotland by Alexander Falconer Murison; Written family Histories and Memoirs published by George Norman, Convent Garden 1858; Peerage of England by Arthur Collins, F. C., and J Rivington, 1812; The Life and Heroick Actions of the Renoun'd Sir William Wallace, General and Governor of Scotland by Blind Harry, Blind Harry's Wallace, original publication 1722; History of the County of Ayr by James Paterson Family Agnes DE PAGANELL, daughter of Fulk De Paganell of Carlton, d. Yes, date unknown Children 1. Adam DE BRUCE, 2nd Lord of Skelton, b. Abt 1100, d. Abt 1143 (Age ~ 43 years) 2. Robert DE BRUCE, The Cadet, 2nd Lord of Annandale and Cleveland, b. 1138, d. 1194 (Age 56 years)

Name Robert DE BRUCE
Suffix 1st Lord of Skelton, 1st Lord of Annandale
Born Abt 1070
Gender Male
Died 11 May 1141 Gisborough Priory , North Yorkshire, England
Notes
The family name has also been spelt Bruis, Breaux or Brus.

The original de Bruce family came from Normandy, when Robert, a Norman Knight (died c1094), accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066 (Ref-The Riverside Dictionary of Biography). They were granted forty-three manors in East and West Riding of Yorkshire and fifty-one manors in North Riding of Yorkshire. Robert was the founder of the Monastery in Gisborough, North Yorkshire, England

The younger branch later migrated to Scotland.

Robert, 1st Lord of Skelton, succeeded to the land of Annandale through his mother Agnes Aunard, his fathers second wife. The title Lords of Skelton passed from Bruce family hands in c1271 due to the lack of any male heirs to Peter de Bruce, 7th Lord of Skelton and his wife, Helena de Mildain. The huge estate was distributed amongst his four sisters.
(Research): Due to the many differing versions of this family history, I have relied upon the records of the following references: Burkes Peerage; The Chronicles of the Closeburn Kirkpatricks by Alexander de LaPere Kirkpatrick; Kirkpatrick of Closeburn (memoir) published 1858 [by Richard Godman Kirkpatrick]; William Wallace: Guardian of Scotland by Alexander Falconer Murison; Written family Histories and Memoirs published by George Norman, Convent Garden 1858; Peerage of England by Arthur Collins, F. C., and J Rivington, 1812; The Life and Heroick Actions of the Renoun'd Sir William Wallace, General and Governor of Scotland by Blind Harry, Blind Harry's Wallace, original publication 1722; History of the County of Ayr by James Paterson

Family Agnes DE PAGANELL, daughter of Fulk De Paganell of Carlton, d. Yes, date unknown
Children
1. Adam DE BRUCE, 2nd Lord of Skelton, b. Abt 1100, d. Abt 1143 (Age ~ 43 years)
2. Robert DE BRUCE, The Cadet, 2nd Lord of Annandale and Cleveland, b. 1138, d. 1194 (Age 56 years)