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Sir Thomas Bruce, 1st (feudal) Baron of Clackmannan(died before 1348) was the first Baron of Clackmannan. King David II of Scotland, near the end of his life, appears to have regarded Thomas as the next most senior member of the Bruce family, meaning that he was believed to be a male line descendant of Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, but his exact relationship to the royal Bruces is unclear. It has been suggested that he was the son of an illegitimate son of Robert the Bruce or Edward Bruce, but there is no clear evidence for this; he may have belonged to a more distant branch of the family.