Robert II de Brus, le Meschin (the Cadet) (fl.

Floruit

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 1138, died ca. 1189 or 1194), was a 12th century Norman

Normans

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 noble and 2nd Lord of Annandale

Lord of Annandale

The Lord of Annandale was a sub-comital lordship in southern Scotland established by David I of Scotland by 1124 for his follower Robert de Brus...

. He was the son, perhaps the second son, of Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale

Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale

Robert I de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale was an early 12th century Norman baron and knight, the first of the Bruce dynasty of Scotland and England...

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The elder de Brus' allegiances were compromised when David I

David I of Scotland

David I or Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians and later King of the Scots...

 invaded England in the later 1130s, and he had renounced his fealty to David before the Battle of the Standard

Battle of the Standard

The Battle of the Standard, sometimes called the Battle of Northallerton, in which English forces repelled a Scottish army, took place on 22 August 1138 on Cowton Moor near Northallerton in Yorkshire. The Scottish forces were led by King David I of Scotland...

 in 1138. The younger Robert however remained loyal and took over his father's land in Scotland, whilst the English territories remained with the elder Robert and passed to the latter's elder son Adam. Bruce family tradition has it that Robert II was captured by his father at the battle and given over to King Stephen of England

Stephen of England

Stephen , often referred to as Stephen of Blois , was a grandson of William the Conqueror. He was King of England from 1135 to his death, and also the Count of Boulogne by right of his wife. Stephen's reign was marked by the Anarchy, a civil war with his cousin and rival, the Empress Matilda...

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A legend tells that in the 1140s, Robert II was visited at Annan

Annan, Dumfries and Galloway

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 by St Malachy. St Malachy asked Robert to pardon a thief, but Robert hung him anyway, and for this the River Annan

River Annan

The River Annan is a river in southwest Scotland. It rises at the foot of Hart Fell, five miles north of Moffat. A second fork rises on Annanhead Hill and flows through the Devil's Beef Tub before joining at the Hart Fell fork north of Moffat.From there it flows past the town of Lockerbie, and...

 destroyed part of his castle and the de Brus line received a curse from the holy man. Robert made Lochmaben

Lochmaben

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 the centre of his lordship and constructed a new caput there.

He married Euphemia, a daughter of Ingleram de Aumale, whose father was Stephen, Count of Aumale. They had five known children:

• Robert
  Robert III de Brus
  Robert III de Brus was the oldest son of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale.He predeceased his father, and so did not inherit the lordship of Annandale, which passed to his brother, William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale...
  
   (d. 1191), eldest son.
• William
  William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
  William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale was the second but eldest surviving son of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale.His elder brother, Robert III de Brus, predeceased their father and never held the lordship of Annandale. William de Brus thus succeeded his father when the latter died in...
  
   (d. 1212).
• Bernard.
• Agatha.
• Euphemia.

Robert was buried at Gisborough Priory

Gisborough Priory

Gisborough Priory is a ruined former Augustinian priory in the town of Guisborough, now in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1119 as the Priory of St. Mary by Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, an ancestor of the...

 in the North Riding

North Riding of Yorkshire

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, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, England

England

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, a monastery founded by his father Robert I de Brus. As his eldest son, Robert, predeceased him, he was succeeded by his second son William.