History of the Carlile family

INTRODUCTION. 9
father of the Annandale estates of the family in 11 38, when the
son was fourteen years of age. Robert le meschin married
Euphemia, and had two sons, the younger of whom, William,
succeeded to the Annandale Estates about 1194, and made a grant
of the Kinmount property there to Ade or Adam Carlyle
{ante p. 2).
William Bruce married Christina, and died about 1 2 1 5, leaving
a son Robert Bruce, called " The Noble," who married Isobel,
second daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon (post p. 10).
Robert Bruce the Noble lived at Hatfield, near Harlow, Essex,
and at Tottenham (Bruce Castle), Middlesex. He died in 1245,
and his widow died in 1 25 1 , leaving their son (b. 12 10) Robert,
Lord of Annandale, called " The Competitor," one of the unsuccessful
competitors for the Scottish Crown in 1292. His second wife,
Christina, was great-niece of Ade, or Adam, Carlyle {ante p. 2).
Robert Bruce, the Competitor, died in 1295, leaving a son of
his first marriage, Robert Bruce (b. 1245), married under romantic
circumstances to Marjorie, or Martha (then aged fifteen), widow of
Adam de Kilconquhar, and eldest daughter and heiress of Neil,
Earl of Carrick, whose principal seat was Turnberry Castle, on the
Ayrshire coast. This Robert Bruce became Earl of Carrick by
right of his wife, Marjorie (d. 1292). He swore fealty to Edward I
of England, in 1296, as " le vieil Comte de Carrick," and died in
1304. There were twelve children of Robert and Marjorie, five
sons and seven daughters. The eldest son was Robert Bruce
(b. 1274), who as "le jeune Comte de Carrick" swore fealty in
1296 (with his father) to Edward I, and in 1306 became King of
Scotland as Robert I, and died in 1329. The fifth daughter of
Robert ("le vieil Comte") and Marjorie was Margaret (Lady
Margaret Bruce) who married Sir William Carlyle {ante p. 2).
More information about the Bruce family may be obtained from
M. E. Cumming Bruce's Family Records^ and from The Scots Peerage,
1905, art., " Carrick, Bruce, Earl of."
1 Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1870.