Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameRobert (I) de Brus 
[54, His own article], [73, Bruce earls of Carrick article, Vol II, p. 428]
[54, His own article], [73, Bruce earls of Carrick article, Vol II, p. 428]Deathca 1080
GeneralOf Yorks. Came (somehow) with William the Conqueror.
Notes for Robert (I) de Brus
He also had a son William, first Prior of Gisburn (Guisborough in “The Brus Family”)..
SP says he may have married Emma dau. of Sir William Ramsey but that this is doubtful.
SP says he may have married Emma dau. of Sir William Ramsey but that this is doubtful.
DNB Main notes for Robert (I) de Brus
Bruce, Robert de I d. 1094?
Name: Bruce, Robert de I
Dates: d. 1094?
Active Date: 1074
Gender: Male
Sources: Orkneyinga Saga; Ord's History of Cleveland, p...
Contributor: AE. M. [Aeneas James George Mackay]
Article
Bruce, Robert de I d. 1094?, was an ancestor of the king of Scotland who made the name of Bruce or Brus famous. The family is a singular example of direct male descent in the Norman baronage, and it is necessary to distinguish with care the different individuals who bore the same surname, and during eight generations the christian name of Robert. The surname has been traced by some genealogists beyond Normandy to a Norse follower of its conqueror Rollo, a descendant of whose brother, Einar, earl of Orkney, called Brusi (which means in old Norse a goat), is said to have accompanied Rollo and built a castle in the diocese of Coutances. A later Brusi, son of Sigurd the Stout, was Earl of Orkney, and died 1031. But the genealogy cannot be accepted. The name is certainly territorial, and is most probably derived from the lands and castle of Brix or Bruis, of which a few remains in the shape of vaults and foundations can still be traced between Cherbourg and Vallonges. More than one de Bruce came with the Conqueror to England, and the contingent of `li sires de Br,aux' is stated at two hundred men (Leland, Collectanea, i. 202). Their services were rewarded by forty-three manors in the East and West, and fifty-one in the North Riding of Yorkshire_upwards of 40,000 acres of land, which fell to the lot of Robert de Bruce I, the head of the family. Of the Yorkshire manors the chief was Skelton in Cleveland, not far from Whitby, the seat of the elder English branch of the Bruces after the younger migrated to Scotland and became lords of Annandale.
Sources
Orkneyinga Saga; Ord's History of Cleveland, p. 198; Domesday, Yorkshire, 332 b, 333, and Kelham's Illustrations, p. 121; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 447. Registrum Honoris de Richmond, p. 98, gives the seal of Robert.
Contributor: AE. M.
published 1886
Name: Bruce, Robert de I
Dates: d. 1094?
Active Date: 1074
Gender: Male
Sources: Orkneyinga Saga; Ord's History of Cleveland, p...
Contributor: AE. M. [Aeneas James George Mackay]
Article
Bruce, Robert de I d. 1094?, was an ancestor of the king of Scotland who made the name of Bruce or Brus famous. The family is a singular example of direct male descent in the Norman baronage, and it is necessary to distinguish with care the different individuals who bore the same surname, and during eight generations the christian name of Robert. The surname has been traced by some genealogists beyond Normandy to a Norse follower of its conqueror Rollo, a descendant of whose brother, Einar, earl of Orkney, called Brusi (which means in old Norse a goat), is said to have accompanied Rollo and built a castle in the diocese of Coutances. A later Brusi, son of Sigurd the Stout, was Earl of Orkney, and died 1031. But the genealogy cannot be accepted. The name is certainly territorial, and is most probably derived from the lands and castle of Brix or Bruis, of which a few remains in the shape of vaults and foundations can still be traced between Cherbourg and Vallonges. More than one de Bruce came with the Conqueror to England, and the contingent of `li sires de Br,aux' is stated at two hundred men (Leland, Collectanea, i. 202). Their services were rewarded by forty-three manors in the East and West, and fifty-one in the North Riding of Yorkshire_upwards of 40,000 acres of land, which fell to the lot of Robert de Bruce I, the head of the family. Of the Yorkshire manors the chief was Skelton in Cleveland, not far from Whitby, the seat of the elder English branch of the Bruces after the younger migrated to Scotland and became lords of Annandale.
Sources
Orkneyinga Saga; Ord's History of Cleveland, p. 198; Domesday, Yorkshire, 332 b, 333, and Kelham's Illustrations, p. 121; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 447. Registrum Honoris de Richmond, p. 98, gives the seal of Robert.
Contributor: AE. M.
published 1886