Richard de Brus (died 1287)

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]

  1. ^ McAndrew 2006, pp. 80–81.
  2. ^ Blakely 2005, p. 82.
  3. ^ a b Blakely 2005, p. 84.
  4. ^ The Red Book of Menteith II:xxxi, No. 12.
  5. ^ 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 47', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 2, Edward I, ed. J E E S Sharp (London, 1906), pp. 377-383. British History Online.