William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale (died 16 July 1212), was the second but eldest surviving son of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale.
William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale | |
|---|---|
| Died | 16 July 1212 |
| Noble family | Bruce |
| Spouse(s) | Christina Mac Uhtred[1][2] |
| Issue | Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale John de Brus[1] William de Brus |
| Father | Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale[1] |
| Mother | Euphemia[1] |
His elder brother, Robert III de Brus, predeceased their father, never holding the lordship of Annandale. William de Brus thus succeeded his father when the latter died in 1194.
William de Brus possessed large estates in the north of England. He obtained from John, King of England, the grant of a weekly market at Hartlepool, and granted lands to the canons of Gisburn.[3] Very little else is known about William's activities. He makes a few appearances in the English government records and witnessed a charter of William the Lion, King of Scotland.
He married Christina, daughter of Uhtred of Galloway, and had by her three sons:[4]
- Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale (died 1226), married Isobel of Huntingdon, had issue.
- John de Brus
- William de Brus
William de Brus died on 16 July 1212 and was survived by his wife Christina who went on to remarry, as his second wife, Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar.
Notes
edit- ^ a b c d Blakely, Ruth Margaret. The Brus Family in England and Scotland: 1100–1295, p. 1
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Burke, Bernard, Sir, CB., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, The Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, London, 1883, p. 80.
- ^ Paul 1905, p. 430
References
edit- Burke, Messrs., John and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with Their Descendants, &c., London, 1848: vol. 1, pedigree XXXIV.
- Northcliffe, Charles B., of Langon, MA., editor, The Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563/4 by William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, London, 1881, p. 40.
- Duncan, A. A. M., ‘Brus , Robert (II) de, lord of Annandale (d. 1194?)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- Paul, James Balfour (1905). The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: David Douglas.