William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale

William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
Coat of arms as Lord of Annandale: Or, a saltire and a chief Gules
Died	(1212-07-16)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]

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, and Euphemia.

Life

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 mac Uhtred, daughter of Uhtred of Galloway and Gunhilda of Dunbar, and had by her three sons: ^[4]

• Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale (died 1226), married Isobel of Huntingdon, had issue. ^[5]
• John de Brus ^[5]
• William de Brus ^[5]

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.

References

1. Blakely, Ruth Margaret. The Brus Family in England and Scotland: 1100–1295, p. 1
2. Dictionary of National Biography
3. 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.
4. Paul 1905 , p. 430
5. Blakely 2005, p. xiv.

Sources

• Blakely, Ruth Margaret (2005). The Brus Family in England and Scotland, 1100-1295. The Boydell Press. ISBN   1 84383 152 X.
• 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.

Baronage of Scotland
Preceded by Robert II de Brus	Lord of Annandale 1194–1212	Succeeded by Robert IV de Brus