Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale

Robert de Brus (1243–1304), sixth Lord of Annandale, became Earl of Carrick by his marriage in 1271 to Marjorie, the Carrick heiress, whom legend says kept him captive at Turnberry until he consented. A cross-border baron, he later wavered between Edward I and the Scots in the Wars of Independence.

His father passed his throne claim to him after the judgment of 1292, and when he died in 1304 it passed to his eldest son, the future Robert the Bruce.