Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
Robert V de Brus( Robert de Brus), 5th Lord of Annandale( ca. 1215 – 31 March or 3 May 1295), was a feudal lord, justice and constable of Scotland and England, a regent of Scotland, and a competitor for the Scottish throne in 1290/ 92 in the Great Cause.
His grandson
Robert the Bruce eventually became King of Scots.
Cleomenes II
Cleomenes II( died 309 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 369 to 309 BC.
The son of Cleombrotus I, he succeeded his brother Agesipolis II.
He was the father of Acrotatus I, the father of Areus I, and of Cleonymus, the father of Leonidas II.
Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale
Robert II de Brus," le Meschin( the Cadet)"( fl. 1138, died or 1194), was a 12th- century Norman noble and 2nd Lord of Annandale.
He was the son, perhaps the second son, of Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale.
The elder de Brus' allegiances were compromised when David I invaded England in the later 1130s, and he had renounced his fealty to David before the Battle of the Standard in 1138.
The younger Robert however remained loyal and took over his father's land in Scotland, whilst the English territories remained with the elder Robert and passed to the latter's elder son Adam de Brus, 2nd Lord of Skelton.
Bruce family tradition has it that Robert II was captured by his father at the battle and given over to King Stephen of England.
A legend tells that in the 1140s, Robert II was visited at Annan by St Malachy.
St Malachy asked Robert to pardon a thief, but Robert hanged him anyway, and for this the River Annan destroyed part of his castle and the de Brus line received a curse from the holy man.
Robert made Lochmaben the centre of his lordship and constructed a new" caput" there.
He married Euphemia, daughter of Sir Adam de Crosebi or Crosbj of Albemarle( b c1098), and Cecily FitzDuncan( b c 1113).
They had five known children:
Robert was buried at Gisborough Priory in the North Riding, Yorkshire, England, a monastery founded by his father Robert I de Brus.
As his eldest son, Robert, predeceased him, he was succeeded by his second son William.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
Nigel de Brus
Nigel de Brus (c. 1279 – September 1306) was a younger brother of King Robert I. Born at Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland, he was a son of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale and Margaret, Countess Of Carrick.
He supported his older brother in the struggle for the crown of Scotland and fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
In 1306, he was captured by English forces at Kildrummy Castle, where he and his garrison held off Edward's forces who had been seeking Robert the Bruce's wife Elizabeth, daughter Marjorie, sisters Mary and Christina, and Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan.
Their actions enabled the women to escape, although the women were soon captured and betrayed to the English by William, 3rd Earl of Ross in the chapel of St Duthac at Tain in Ross.
After his capture he was executed for high treason by being hanged, drawn, and quartered in September 1306 at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Nigel De Brulier
Nigel De Brulier( born Francis George Packer, 8 August 1877 – 30 January 1948) was an English film actor.
John de Seton
Sir John de Seton was a knight who took part in the War of Scottish Independence, as a supporter of Robert de Brus.
He held lands in England and Scotland.
Seton was a son of Sir John de Seton of Skelton, Cumberland and Erminia Lascelles.
His brothers were Christopher and Humphrey de Seton.
This branch of the Seton family had long served the Bruces in Yorkshire, Cumberland and Scotland.
John performed fealty to King Edward I of England at Berwick on 28 August 1296.
Seton was present on 10 February 1306 when Sir John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch was stabbed by Robert de Brus in Greyfriars Church, Dumfries.
A letter of excommunication was issued naming the Robert de Brus, Earl of Carrick and three other knights, Sir Alexander Lindsay, Sir Christopher Seton, his brother and John as John Comyn's murderers.
He was captured by English forces after the fall of Tibbers Castle in 1306.
John was hung and drawn at Newcastle- upon- Tyne on 4 August 1306.
He was executed on the basis that he was a witness to the murder of John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch by Robert de Brus< Earl of Carrick at Dumfries and holding Tibbers Castle against Edward I.
His lands in Cumnock, Ayrshire were given to Roger, son of Finlay, in a charter from Robert de Brus, where it mentions a brother and a son.
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Sir Robert VI de Brus (July 1243 – soon before 4 March 1304), 6th Lord of Annandale (dominus vallis Anandie), "jure uxoris" Earl of Carrick (1271–1292), Lord of Hartness, Writtle and Hatfield Broad Oak
(Wretele et Hatfeud Regis), was a cross-border lord, and participant of the Second Barons' War, Ninth Crusade, Welsh Wars, and First War of Scottish Independence.
Of Scoto-Norman heritage, through his father he was a third-great grandson of David I of Scotland.
His ancestors included Richard (Strongbow) de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, King of Leinster and Governor of Ireland, and William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, regent of England, and Henry I of England.
William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
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.
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.
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 a woman called Christina, and had by her at least two sons and one daughter:
Sven Brus
Sven Brus, born 1941, is a Swedish Christian democratic politician, member of the Riksdag 2000 – 2006.

Question: Where was the father of Nigel De Brus born?
Answer: Writtle