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- For a listing of web sites that have the genealogy of family lines ofroyal houses, many noble houses and more, go to the entry "INFORMATION,Royal Houses family lines web sites" in this file.
Baronage (http://www.baronage.co.uk)
Has extensive discussion about the Bruce origins at five different webpages:
The Ancestry of Robert the Bruce I ~ The first Earls of Carrick
http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/bruce-01.html
The Ancestry of Robert the Bruce ~ II. Bruces from Normandy
http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/bruce-02.html
The Ancestry of Robert the Bruce III ~ The Mysterious Blue Lion
http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/bruce-03.html
Ancestry of Robert the Bruce, Part IV ~ The Blue Lion in Flanders
http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/bruce-04.html
The Ancestry of Robert the Bruce To summarise
http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/bruce-05.html
"Could Robert de Bruges, as a younger son of the powerful Count of Louvain, have accepted the post of Castellan from the Count of Flanders?Most certainly, yes! The Count of Flanders was then, de facto, probably the most powerful sovereign in northwest Europe. Bruges was strategically of huge importance. It would be a very attractive offer, especially to a landless younger son, and it could be expected to lead on to further opportunities (such as the offer to accompany the Count's daughter toNormandy, when she left to marry Duke William, the eventual Conqueror of England, an offer that would entail a grant of land in the Cotentin"
From Baronage at http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/bruce-05.html
See also
Bruce at at Stirnet Genealogy, Families Database at
http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/genfam.htm
'Bruce1'
http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/bb4fz/bruce1.htm
Families covered: Bruce of Annandale, Bruce of Carrick, Bruce ofScotland, Bruce of Skelton
'Bruce2'
http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/bb4fz/bruce2.htm
Families covered: Bruce of Airth, Bruce of Clackmannan, Bruce ofEarlshall, Bruce of Green,
Bruce of Kennet, Bruce of Stenhouse, Bruce of Wester Kennet
Main sources:
(1) Bruces of Clackmannan - TSP (Elgin & Ailesbury).
(2) Bruces of Wester Kennet - TSP (Balfour of Burleigh).
(3) Bruces of Airth and Stenhouse - BP1934 (Bruce of Stenhouse).
(4) Bruces of Earlshall
(a) "Fife: Pictorial and Historical", 'Its People, Burghs, Castles, andMansions', by A.H. Millar. Printed and published in 2 volumes in 1895 byA. Westwood & Son, Cupar.
(b) "The Bruces of Airth and their Cadets" by Major William BruceArmstrong, printed for private circulation in Edinburgh, 1892.
For the sources of information, see in this file under "INFORMATION,Sources of" and also "INFORMATION, General Clan Genealogy ".
See "King Robert the Bruce of Scotland" athttp://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/Bruce6.html
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1274 - 1329 (54 years)
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