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Richard de Brus (died 1287)

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

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

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

He participated in Edward's Conquest of Wales, and awarded command of Denbigh, in 1280.[3]

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.[4]

Richard also held lands at Tottenham and Kempston, and is recorded as receiving a number of wards and gifts of deer and to have sought permission to empark the forest at Writtle.[3]

He is recorded to have died in 1287. He never married and his lands reverted to his father.[5]

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  • 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.