A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
Robert de Brus, a noble Norman knight,ihe first on record of this great and patrioticamily, attending the conqueror into Eng-and, was of such high estimation, that Wil-liam, after the victory at Hastings, commis-sioned him to subdue the northern parts ofEngland. He first possessed the manor…
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