Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Robert de Brus I: Founder of the Family
- 2 Divided Inheritance
- 3 Lords of Skelton
- 4 Lords of Annandale
- 5 The Brus Estates in England and Scotland
- 6 Land Management and Income
- 7 Tenants, Companions and Household
- 8 Status, Kin and Patronage
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The Brus Barony in Yorkshire
- Appendix 2 The Brus Inheritance in the Honors of Chester and Huntingdon
- Appendix 3 The Brus Charters
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Lords of Skelton
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Robert de Brus I: Founder of the Family
- 2 Divided Inheritance
- 3 Lords of Skelton
- 4 Lords of Annandale
- 5 The Brus Estates in England and Scotland
- 6 Land Management and Income
- 7 Tenants, Companions and Household
- 8 Status, Kin and Patronage
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The Brus Barony in Yorkshire
- Appendix 2 The Brus Inheritance in the Honors of Chester and Huntingdon
- Appendix 3 The Brus Charters
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The start of the new century, which followed quickly on the start of a new reign in England and gave fresh impetus to the Scottish king's attempts to recover his lost possessions south of the Border, was also a time of new beginnings for both branches of the Brus family. Each was headed by a comparatively recent inheritor who suffered from the disadvantage of succeeding a long-lived father in whose time the status of the family had declined from its auspicious beginnings under Robert I. When William de Brus succeeded his father in about 1194, Robert II had been in possession of Annandale for a little over fifty years. By the time Peter I inherited the Yorkshire barony, Adam II had held it for nearly fifty-five years, of which at least fourteen had been spent in wardship. Both Robert II and Adam II left debts for their sons to repay, not least those originating from Jewish money-lenders. Both left a reduced legacy of lands. Some of Adam II's had escheated to the crown while Robert II's Hartness estates, being in the wapentake of Sadberge, were currently the subject of a wrangle between the king and the bishop of Durham. Furthermore, by the end of the twelfth century, in addition to coping with rapid inflation and rising prices, England was having to bear a burden of higher taxation laid upon it by the Crown.
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- The Brus Family in England and Scotland, 1100–1295 , pp. 47 - 66Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2005