Peter de Brus Lord of Skelton

✓ Peter de Brus, lord of Skelton in Cleveland, son of Peter de Brus (d. c.1222) and Joan; husband of Hawise de Lancaster, through whom half the barony of Kendal came to the Bruses: the writ of 25 Dec 1246 after the death of William [III] de Lancaster names 'Peter de Brus of full age and Walter son of William de Lyndeseys aged 16' as his heirs (the sons of his sisters Hawise and Alice), and the 1272 inquisition on that Peter (Cal. IPM I no. 800) returns in Westmorland 'a moiety of all the lands which were of William de Lancastre'. Died at Marseille on his way to the Holy Land, 13 Sep 1241, buried at Guisborough (Medieval Lands, citing the Guisborough cartulary). Children: Peter (d. 1272 s.p.), Agnes (Fauconberg), LUCY (Thweng - our line), Margaret (Ros of Wark), Laderina (Bellew). Source: Medieval Lands (fmg.ac, Cawley), 'Untitled English Nobility L-O: LANCASTER (fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntlo.htm), read 27 Oct 2026'; Source: Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol. I (Henry III) no. 800 (archive.org calendarofinquis01grea), read 27 Oct 2026. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 27 Oct 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.] ||27 Oct 2026 - RING|| ✓ CP V 'Fauconberge' p.269 confirms the whole w45 chain in the 2nd edition: Agnes, wife of Walter de Fauconberge, '1st da. of Sir Piers de Brus II, of Skelton and Danby, by Hawise, sister and in her issue coh. of Sir William de Lancastre, Lord of Kendal (who d. 29 Nov 1246), and elder da. of Sir Gilbert fitz Roger fitz Reinfrid, Lord of Kendal'; Lucy 'yr. sister of Agnes' already married to Marmaduke de Thwenge by Nov 1243. Daughter Agnes added (ancestress through the Engaines). Source: Complete Peerage 2nd ed. vol. V (1926), 'Fauconberge' pp.267-270 (G. W. Watson) (archive.org completepeerageo51coka), read 27 Oct 2026. ||27 Oct 2026 - PARENTS WIRED|| ✓ Son of Peter de Brus (d. 17 Jan 1211) and Joan; Guisborough history 'Petrus de Bruse secundus' succeeded his father; the Skelton line now runs to Robert de Brus (d. 1141), founder of Guisborough and first lord of Annandale. Source: Medieval Lands (fmg.ac, Cawley), 'Scotland Kings, ch.5 Kings of Scotland (Bruce), A. Origins - Brus of Skelton (SCOTLAND.htm), read 27 Oct 2026'.