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" Adam's son Robert (wrote Nisbet in 1722) ~
having married Agnes de Annandia, heiress of that country, laid aside hispaternal arms, viz. argent, a lion rampant azure, and carried those ofAnnan, Lords of Annandale, argent, a saltier and chief gules; as thecustom was of old upon marrying of heiresses, before the use ofmarshalling many coats in one shield .......
Robert de Brusee, Lord of Skelton, of Cleveland and of Annandale, was anotable character of his time, and was especially famous for his r?le atthe Battle of the Standard in 1138, when he sought to persuade David I,King of Scots, partly on the basis of their long friendship, not to fightin support of the Empress against Stephen. Robert then had to renouncehis fealty and lose Annandale when he failed, but had arranged for hisson Robert to fight on David's side to protect the inheritance. Hefounded the Abbey of Gisburn in 1128, and this bore his arms with a bendGules over the lion.
Having lost Annandale to his younger son, Robert resumed his originalarms, the blue lion, and these were inherited by his elder son Adam andsubsequently borne by all the Lords of Skelton. Across the EnglishChannel the lion rampant continued in the family in various colours, thedescendants of the crusader Philip bearing his arms at the end of the14th century, and others such as the Baron de Brieuze, Jacques de Brez?,Grand Marshal of Normandy, using these shown here ~ Or a lion rampantAzure. The last Lord of Skelton is noted with the blue lion in a roll ofHenry III"
From Baronage at http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/bruce-03.html
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