Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Sir Robert de Brus | |
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| 6th Lord of Annandale jure uxoris Earl of Carrick Constable of Carlisle Castle | |
Coat of arms as Lord of Annandale: Or, a saltire and a chief Gules | |
| Lord of Annandale | |
| Predecessor | Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale |
| Successor | Robert de Bruce, 7th Lord of Annandale |
| Born | July 1243 probably Writtle, Essex, England |
| Died | April 1304 (aged 60) |
| Buried | Holm Cultram Abbey, Cumberland |
| Noble family | Bruce |
| Spouse(s) | Marjorie, Countess of Carrick Eleanor |
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| Father | Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale |
| Mother | Isobel of Gloucester and Hertford |
Robert de Brus (July 1243 – before April 1304), 6th Lord of Annandale, jure uxoris Earl of Carrick (1252–1292), Lord of Hartness, Writtle and Hatfield Broad Oak, was a cross-border lord, and participant of the Second Barons' War, Ninth Crusade, Welsh Wars, and First War of Scottish Independence, as well as father to the future king of Scotland Robert the Bruce.
Of Scoto-Norman-Irish heritage, through his father he was a third-great grandson of David I of Scotland. Other ancestors included Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Edmund Ironside, Fergus of Galloway, Henry I of England and Aoife MacMurrough, daughter of Dermot MacMurrough.