I3800: Ann (ABT 1750

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aka: Bertha de Bourgogne. Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (136:20), (159:20), identifiy her as EUDES' wife. (101:21) identifies her as EUDES' widow and the 2nd wife of KING ROBERT II. ROBERT repudiated her in 998.

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ROBERT de BRUSSE, 2nd. came with William the Conqueror from Normandy in 1066. married Agnes St. Clair (died 1080). Robert died in 1094.

2. Robert de Brusse (came to England with William the Conqueror, 1066)
m. Agnes de St. Clair (dau of Waldonius, Earl of St. Clair)

BRUCE
That Brix, in the hinterland behind Cherbourg (the place in Normandy from which the Bruce family supposedly took its llth-century’ surname) should have been called after a follower of the first Duke Robert is not impossible. The old stronghold is said to have been given to Robert de Brus’s kinsman, Adam - father, brother or son - who built his castle there, perhaps after the family had come to Normandy in the retinue of Matilda of Flanders, the Conqueror’s bride. The first arms borne in England by the Bruce family - the azure lion of Louvain - shout as loudly as anything could of their connection not only with Flanders but with Queen Maud’s grandfather, Count Lambert of Lens, who was the heir of his mother, Maud de Louvain. Maud de Louvain, who married Count Eustace I of Boulogne was the granddaughter of Count Lambert I of Louvain. Her cousin Henry’s grandson, Joscelyn, through whom the “comté” of Louvain descended after the failure of the senior line, followed Robert de Brus in bringing the blue lion to England. Robert (later “de Bruis”) must have been a younger grandson of Count Lambert I and therefore a first cousin of Maud de Louvain. When Joscelyn de Louvain came to England in the mid 12th century’ to marry the heiress of the Percys, it was natural for Robert de Brus to yield up the azure lion to him as the senior representative here of the family, and Robert adopted the device thereafter associated with Bruce - the saltire.

The saltire was a known device of Flanders and in the 12th century, it was borne by a noble family of Flanders called Praet. In the early years of the 11th century they were castellans of Bruges, known to be “noble and rich” though their ancestry is unrecorded. Robert de Brus himself may once have been known as Robert de Bruges, since a man of that name and title holds the castellany from 1046 and probably earlier, until he disappears from Flemish records in 1053. That was the year in which Matilda of Flanders married William, Duke of Normandy. It is certain that many nobles of her country attended Matilda into the Duchy, and there is no reason why Robert de Bruges of the princely houses of Louvain and Boulogne should not have been among them. Did one of his sons, Adam, build a castle at Brix, near Cherbourg, and another, Robert, came to England after Domesday to claim the lands awarded here to his father for loyalty to the Conqueror’s wife?

We may note that the arms of the city of Bruges, adopted by its burghers in the 13th century and said to have been taken from the bearings of its castellans, show a lion rampant azure. It is possible to trace the castellans of Bruges back in time from the family of Nesle, who took over the office in 1134. Ralph de Nesle’s predecessor was Gervaise de Praet (of the saltire), who was given the office after the murder of Count Charles the Good by the Erembalds in 1127. The Erembalds were an ignoble family who brought great scandal to Flanders, culminating in the murder of its Count. They had held the Bruges castellany from 1067, having acquired it through another murder, this time of the incumbent, Castellan Baldran. Baldran’s immediate predecessor was that Robert de Bruges who left the office in 1053, the year of the marriage between Matilda of Flanders and Normandy’s Duke William. A Hainaut family, de Carnière, bore for arms a saltire and from at least the 12th century held estates near the home of Count Lambert de Lens. No connection with Praet has so far been uncovered but de Carnière had connections with another noble family, Heverlee of Louvain, who used the same arms; and one of the lordships in their fiefdom was called Brus.
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Children:
Edward Cromwell of Oakham b. 1560 in Putney, Surrey, England
Katharine Cromwell b. About 1562 in Putney, Surrey, England
Gregory Cromwell

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f. Deborah b 1644/5 m. Jonathan Wade.

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2 George KENNEDY b: 1831 d: FEB 1850

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SOURCES Mark Kelley, Littleton, CO U.S. Census-1850 Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland District, page 652.

My Southern Family

Ann

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I3800

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James Harvey ABSHER

16 Jan 1885 - 3 Oct 1906

ID Number: I9491

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BERTHA de BOURGOGNE of Burgundy

ABT 0967 - AFT 1017

ID Number: I27019

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ROBERT de BRUCE II

ABT 1050 - 1094

ID Number: I39560

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Will Rush BUTLER

ABT 1860 - ____

ID Number: I14415

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Mary CARTER

ABT 1739 - AFT 1784

ID Number: I80685

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Ferdinando CLAIBORNE

9 Mar 1772 - ____

ID Number: I64764

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HENRY CROMWELL 3rd Lord Cromwell

BEF 1538 - 20 Nov 1592

ID Number: I93289

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Hattie Pauline DIXON

1892 - ____

ID Number: I55481

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Deborah DUDLEY

27 Feb 1645 - 1 Nov 1683

ID Number: I41989

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Scarlet HANCOCK

1712 - ABT 1740

ID Number: I68085

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George KENNEDY

1831 - Feb 1850

ID Number: I77368

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Sally PATTERSON

ABT 1780 - ____

ID Number: I29389

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James Houston QUIN

23 Mar 1838 - 1888

ID Number: I16785

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Amanda Malviner TURK

19 Oct 1829 - 2 Mar 1906

ID Number: I7121

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