Richard de Brus (died 1287)

Sir Richard de Brus (died 1287), Lord of Writtle was an English knight from Essex. He was a younger son of Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale and Isabella de Clare.

Arms of Sir Richard de Brus: Gules, a saltire and chief or.[1]

Richard was a part of King Edward I of England’s household and may have been with Edward during his crusade.[2]

He was a signatory of the Turnberry Band, a pact between Scottish and Anglo-Irish nobles signed on 20 September 1286 at Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland.[3]

He is recorded to have died in 1287. He never married and his lands reverted to his father.[4]

Citations

1. McAndrew 2006, pp. 80-81.
2. Blakely 2005, p. 82.
3. The Red Book of Menteith II:xxxi, No. 12.
4. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 47', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 2, Edward I, ed. J E E S Sharp (London, 1906), pp. 377-383. British History Online.

References

• Blakely, Ruth Margaret (2005). The Brus Family in England and Scotland, 1100-1295. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843831525.
• McAndrew, Bruce A. (2006). Scotland's Historic Heraldry. Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843832614.