Regent of Scotland Robert Bruce

1210 - 1295  (85 years)

• Name	Robert Bruce
  Title	Regent of Scotland
  Birth	1210	Dumfries-shire, Scotland
  Christening	1210	Dumfries-shire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  FSID	LZ6R-LLG
  Death	31 Mar 1295	Dumfries-shire, Scotland
  Burial	Jun 1295	Yorkshire, England
  Person ID	I8005	footsteps | Ancestors, Charlamagne, Conqueor, Robert Capet II, DonCampbell
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	4th Lord Of Annandale Robert Bruce,   b. 1195, Dumfries-shire, Scotland d. 1245, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Isabelle Huntingdon,   b. 1199, Huntingdonshire, England d. 1252, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	1209	Huntingdonshire, England
  Family ID	F653	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabel Clare,   b. 8 Nov 1226, England d. Aft 10 Jul 1264, Yorkshire, England (Age > 38 years)
  Marriage	12 May 1240	Scotland
  Children	+ 1. Earl of Carrick Robert Bruce,   b. Abt Jul 1243, Essex, England d. Bef 4 Apr 1304, England (Age < 60 years)
  Family ID	F4619	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Titles of Sir Robert de Brus in right of his 2nd wife (Royal Ancestry) Governor of Carlisle Castle Sheriff of Cumberland 1255, 1265 Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale (Robert de Brus), was a feudal lord , J u s t i ce and Constable of Scotland and England, a Regent of Scotland , a n d a l e a d ing competitor to be King of Scotland in 1290-92 in the Great C a us e . Robert was also Lord of Hartlepool in county Durham and Writtle and Hat f i e l d B roadoak in Essex, England, and through his marriages obtained th e v i l l a ge of Ripe, in Sussex, and the Lordship of Ireby in Cumberland . F o l l o w ing the defeat of Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham(1265) , R o b e r t was granted the estates of the former rebel barons Walter de F au c o n b erg and John de Melsa. Henry III also re-appointed Robert a Just i c e , a n d Constable of Carlisle Castle and keeper of the Castle there in 1 2 6 7 , a p o sition he had been dismissed from in 1255, for his support dur i n g t h e r ebellion.