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Robert de Brus entry at Wikitree
The Scottish Nation: Or, The Surnames, Families...:
From a branch of this family came, according to Burke, Robert de Brusi, a descendant of Einar fourth jarl of Orkney, brother of the famous Rollo, (great-great-grandfather of William the Conqueror)... .
...de Brusee the ancestor of the Bruses and the first of name who appeared in England. He accompanied the Conqueror there in 1066, but died soon after.
By wife Agnes...had two sons, William and Adam... . Adam died in 1098, leaving by Emma, wife, daughter of...Sir William Ramsay, sons namely, Sir Robert... . His son, Robert de Brus of Cleveland, served as a companion in arms under Prince David, afterwards David the of Scotland... .
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