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The Scottish patriot, King Robert I. Bruce
belonged to a Norman family which in the person of Robert de Bruis
came to England with The Conqueror in 1066
| ADAM | de Brus, built Chateau d'Adam at Brix situated between Cherbourg and Valognes named after him in the 11th century |
| ROBERT
1066-1094 |
de Bruis came to England with the Conqueror in 1066 and received Skelton and Yorkshire, he died circa 1094 |
| ROBERT
le Meschin 1094-1138 |
"the Cadet" came as an associate of King David I. (youngest son of Queen Margaret) to Scotland in 1124 when David became King. David I. created him Lord of Annandale, but in 1138 he renounced his title to his second son and in the Battle of the Standard in 1139 he fought on the English side and took his son prisoner. |
| ROBERT
1138- |
second son of Robert the Cadet, fought the Battle of the Standard in 1139 under David I. and was taken prisoner by his own father, he became 2nd Lord of Annandale when his father renounced his rights to take the English side in the Battle |
| ROBERT
-1191 |
3rd Lord of Annandale, son of Robert 2nd Lord of Annandale |
| WILLIAM
1191-1215 |
