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 . A.] BRUCE, EARL OF CARRICK .DELM (or ADAM) DEBRUS, is said to havebeen the second son ofRobert de Brus, a Nor-man knight, and Emma,daughter of Allan, Earlof Brittany. He is alsosaid to have come toEngland before his father,l^erhaps as a page toQueen Emma, daughterof Richard, Duke of Nor-mandy, and widow ofKing Ethelred ii. andKing Canute. Sir GeorgeMackenzie states thatafter that Queens deathhe came to Scotland and got a g
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 . A.] BRUCE, EARL OF CARRICK .DELM (or ADAM) DEBRUS, is said to havebeen the second son ofRobert de Brus, a Nor-man knight, and Emma,daughter of Allan, Earlof Brittany. He is alsosaid to have come toEngland before his father,l^erhaps as a page toQueen Emma, daughterof Richard, Duke of Nor-mandy, and widow ofKing Ethelred ii. andKing Canute. Sir GeorgeMackenzie states thatafter that Queens deathhe came to Scotland and got a grant of the lands of Bowdenfrom Malcolm Ceannmor, but this is very doubtful, andthere does not appear to be any record evidence for it. OnWilliam the Conquerors invasion of England he joined thatKing, with whom his father had also come. His serviceswere rewarded with a grant of the barony of Skelton andiordship of Cleveland, in Yorkshire. He died about 1080;he is said to have married Emma, daughter of Sir Williamde Ramsay, but this also is doubtful. He left issue, so faras is known :— 1. Robert. 2. William, the first Prior of Gisburne, who was buried there, Robert de BriS succeeded his father in the barony of Notes in Advocates Library. BRUCE, EARL OF OARRIOK 429 Skelton. There has been much confusion about this Robertthrough Dugdale confounding him with his grandfather,who bore the same name. He became a very powerfulBaron, having no less than ninety-four lordsliips in York-shire, summed at fifteen knights fees. He was a liberalbenefactor to the Church, and along with the Earl ofHuntingdon (afterwards David i.) founded the Abbey of Sel-kirk, afterwards removed to Kelso. He had charters fromDavid I., circa 1124, of the lands of Estrahanent, or Annan-dale. He married Agnes, daughter of Foulk de Paganell,^and got with her the manor of Careton, in Yorkshire, andother lands. Of a second alleged marriage to Agnes deAnnand there is no proof. He died in May 1141,^ leavingissu
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