If somebody wants to work on the de Brus family, take a look at this guy:
Robert de Brus 1st Lord of Skelton and 1st Lord of Annandale
There are three ancestry charts, several links and information on his profile - and the connection to the earls of Orkney is very unlikely (but who know where they belong). Maybe I should disconnect them? (A lot of people have entered this, however.)
You mentioned Isabella, Lady of Annandale and Ireby who might be a descendant.
I believe there are 2 Isabelle de Brus
Isabella, Lady of Annandale and Ireby
now these, may or may not be the same person. be careful the puzzle continues
https://gw.geneanet.org/macfouillade?lang=en&n=bretagne+de&...
1st wife is Emma de Bretagne in France. Son Adam married Emma countess of Ramsey.
see link in https://gw.geneanet.org/macfouillade?lang=en&n=bruce&nz=fou...
Robert de Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale about 1295 had *something* going with one Maud FitzAlan (daughter of one Earl of Arundel, sister of another, widow of Philip Burnell, who was heir to his uncle Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and squandered the Bishop's vast fortune in two years).
What exactly it was, no one seems to be sure, but there was a license to marry granted on 19 September 1295, and a reference to her as his "wife" in a writ issued 13 October 1296. 5) Cal Pat Rolls 1292-1301, p. 147; Calendar of Chancery Warrants 1244-1326, p. 74.
Whether he promised to marry her and never got around to it, or whether the marriage didn't work out and was quietly annulled (if so the record has been lost), or whether it was one of those thought-to-be-mythical "year and day" marriages, both parties went their separate ways within a year or two, Robert to marry his Eleanor and Maud eventually to marry an equally shadowy Simon de Criketot.
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