Richard de Brus (died 1287)

Sir Richard de Brus (died 1287), Lord of Writtle was an English knight from Essex, commanding a Knight banneret for Edward I.

He was a younger son of Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale and Isabella de Clare.

[2] He participated in Edward's Conquest of Wales, and awarded command of Denbigh, in 1280.

[3] He was a signatory of the Turnberry Band, a pact between Scottish and Anglo-Irish nobles signed on 20 September 1286 at Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland.

[4] Richard also held lands at Tottenham and Kempston, and is recorded as receiving a number of wards and gifts of deer and to have sought permission to empark the forest at Writtle.