Other Events and Attributes:

• Life Event: Lord of St. Valerie
• FSID: 93T9-M9Z
• Alternate Birth: 1113, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
• Alternate Death: 17 Sep 1191, Acre, Yerushalayim, Israel

Notes:

Bernard IV St Valery
s/o Reginald II St Valery &
b- 1117 - Haseldene, Gloucester ,England or Isleworth, Middlesex, England
m-1- Matilda d- by 1175-79 (she maybe a Neice of Simon Beauchamp)
m-2- by 1175-79 - Aleanora (Eleanora)
d- 1191 - Probably Crusades

1166 - heir - Wovercote, Oxfordshire (Bernard granted Wovercote to King Henry II, who granted it to Godstow Abbey) & Hampton & Isleworth, Middlesex - Harwell, Berkshire - Tetbury manor, Gloucester - Yarnton, Oxfordshire

between - 1144-51 - Reginald II St Valery & his son BERNARD IV St Valery - granted a charter
1150 - Bernard IV St Valerly - made war of Jean I Ct of Ponthieu- who espouse LARA, BERNARD's sister, & the CT had repudiated her on grounds of Consanquity - the Count bought peace, by ceding to to him Damart & Bernardville - Lara m-2- Aleaueme Fontaine
1151-56 - BERNARd IV St Valery - made a grant to Orsenu, in his father's lifetime
1163 - BERNARD IV St Valery & his son Bernard V - appear as hostages for 100m in a commotion between King Henry III & Theodoric , Ct of Flanders
1165-90 - BERNARD IV St Valery - appears in French charters
1166-7 - pipe rolls- he was abroad
1171-2- Pipe Rolls - BERNARD IV St Valery
1172- He owing military Service to the Duke of Normandy, for the fee of Valle de Dent & was lord of a fee in Rouen

1175-79 - He founded Nunnery of Studley, Oxfordshire - for the salvation of his late wife MATILDA & his then wife ALANORA & his uncle Simon Beauchamp of Bedfordshire, King Stephen's Daphier
1186 - He & Ranulph, the Justiciar- were sent as Ambassadors to the French King
1191 - He was with King RI on Crusades

Family/Spouse: de Valéry, Matilda. Matilda was born in 1130 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England; died in 1152 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Lady of la Haie
• FSID: 99KP-CPN

Notes:

◆ Refused To Yield Sons As Hostages To King John After He Murdered His Nephew Arthur
◆ Walled Up Within Her Castle With Son William By King John In 1210; Starved.
◆ Earned John's Enmity By Accusing Him Of Murder Of Arthur, Duke Of Brittany.
◆ Final Imprisonment Ended With Her Insanely Gnawing On Her Son William's Face.
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Maud de Braose, Lady of Bramber (c. 1155 – 1210) was an English noble, the spouse of William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, a powerful Marcher baron and court favourite of King John of England. She would later incur the wrath and enmity of the King who caused her to be starved to death in the dungeon of Corfe Castle along with her eldest son. In contemporary records, she was described as beautiful, very wise, doughty, and vigorous. She kept up the war against the Welsh and conquered much from them.

She features in many Welsh myths and legends; and is also known to history as Matilda de Braose, Moll Wallbee, and Lady of La Haie.

She was born Maud de St. Valery (Maud de Saint-Valéry) in France in about 1155, the child of Bernard de St. Valéry of Hinton Waldrist in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and his first wife, Matilda. Her paternal grandfather was Reginald de St. Valéry (died c.1162).

She had many siblings and half-siblings, including Thomas de St. Valéry (died 1219), who was a son of Bernard by his second wife Eleanor de Domnart. Thomas married Adele de Ponthieu, by whom he had a daughter, Annora, who in her turn married Robert III, Count of Dreux, by whom she had issue. Thomas fought on the French side, at the Battle of Bouvines on 27 July 1214.

Sometime around 1166, Maud married William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, son of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber and Bertha of Hereford de Pitres. He also held the lordships of Gower, Hay, Brecon, Radnor, Builth, Abergavenny, Kington, Painscastle, Skenfrith, Grosmont, White Castle and Briouze in Normandy. When King John of England ascended the throne in 1199, Braose became a court favourite and was also awarded the lordship of Limerick, Ireland. Maud had a marriage portion, Tetbury from her father's estate.

Maud supported her husband's military ambitions and he put her in charge of Hay Castle and surrounding territory. She is often referred to in history as the Lady of Hay. In 1198, Maud defended Painscastle in Elfael against a massive Welsh attack led by Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Powys. She successfully held off Gwenwynwyn's forces for three weeks until English reinforcements arrived. Over three thousand Welsh were killed. Painscastle was known as Matilda's Castle by the locals.

Maud and William are reputed to have had 16 children. The best documented of these are listed below.

Issue
1. Maud de Braose (died 29 December 1210), married Gruffydd ap Rhys II, by whom she had two sons, Rhys and Owain.
2. William de Braose (died 1210). Starved to death with his mother in either Windsor or Corfe Castle. He married Maud de Clare, daughter of Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, by whom he had issue, including John de Braose.
3. Margaret de Braose (died after 1255), married Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath, son of Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath and Rohese of Monmouth.
4. Reginald de Braose (died between 5 May 1227 and 9 June 1228), married firstly, Grace, daughter of William Briwere, and secondly, in 1215, Gwladus Ddu, daughter of Welsh Prince Llewelyn the Great. He had issue by his first wife, including William de Braose, who married Eva Marshal.
5. Giles de Braose, Bishop of Hereford (died 13 November 1215)
6. John de Braose (died before 27 May 1205), married Amabil de Limesi.
7. Loretta de Braose, married Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester. She died without issue.
8. Annora de Braose, married Hugh de Mortimer and later became a recluse at Iffley.
9. Flandrina de Braose, Abbess of Godstow, (elected 1242, deposed 1248).

In 1208, William de Braose quarreled with his friend and patron King John. The reason is not known but it is alleged that Maud made indiscreet comments regarding the murder of King John's nephew Arthur of Brittany. There was also a large sum of money (five thousand marks) de Braose owed the King. Whatever the reason, John demanded Maud's son William be sent to him as a hostage for her husband's loyalty. Maud refused, and stated loudly within earshot of the King's officers that "she would not deliver her children to a king who had murdered his own nephew." The King quickly led troops to the Welsh border and seized all of the castles that belonged to William de Braose. Maud and her eldest son William fled to Ireland, where they found refuge at Trim Castle with the de Lacys, the family of her daughter Margaret. In 1210, King John sent an expedition to Ireland. Maud and her son escaped but were apprehended in Galloway by Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick. After being briefly held at Carrickfergus Castle, they were dispatched to England.

Imprisonment and death
Maud and William were first imprisoned at Windsor Castle, but were shortly afterwards transferred to Corfe Castle in Dorset where they were placed inside the dungeon. Maud and William both starved to death. The manner in which they met their deaths so outraged the English nobility that the Magna Carta, which King John was forced to sign in 1215, contains clause 39: "No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land."

Her husband died a year later in exile in France where he had gone disguised as a beggar to escape King John's wrath after the latter had declared him an outlaw, following his alliance with Llywelyn the Great, whom he had assisted in open rebellion against the King, an act which John regarded as treason. He was buried in the Abbey of St. Victor, Paris.

Maud's daughter Margaret de Lacy founded a religious house, the Hospital of St. John, in Aconbury, Herefordshire in her memory. On 10 October 1216, eight days before his death, King John conceded three carucates of land in the royal forest of Aconbury to Margaret for the construction of the religious house. He sent the instructions to her husband Walter de Lacy, who held the post of Sheriff of Hereford, by letters patent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_de_Braose

However when Magna Carta was written in 1215, Clause 39 may well have been included with Matilda and her family in mind: “No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.”
https://www.geni.com/people/Mathilde-de-Clare/6000000000191632755

Maud married de Braose, William III in 1167 in Bramber Castle, Bramber, Sussex, England. William (son of de Braose, William II and de Pitres, Bertha) was born in 1144; died on 9 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; was buried on 10 Aug 1211 in Abbey of St Victor, Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: 9th Baron Abergavenny
• Appointments / Titles: Lord of Brecon
• Alternate Birth: 1182, Bramber Castle, Bramber, Sussex, England

Notes:

Reginald de Braose
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reginald de Braose (died June 1228) was one of the sons of William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber and Matilda, also known as Maud de St. Valery and Lady de la Haie. Her other children included William and Giles.[1]

The de Braoses were loyal to King Richard I but grew in power under King John of England. The dynasty was in conflict with King John towards the end of his reign and almost lost everything. Reginald de Braose was a scion of the powerful Marcher family of de Braose, helped manage its survival and was also related by marriage to the Welsh Princes of Wales.

Magna Carta
He supported his brother Giles de Braose in his rebellions against King John. Both brothers were active against the King in the Baron's War. Neither was present at the signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 because at this time they were still rebels who refused to compromise.

Restoration of royal favour
King John acquiesced to Reginald's claims to the de Braose estates in Wales in May 1216. Reginald became Lord of Brecon, Abergavenny, Builth and held other Marcher Lordships but was also very much a vassal of the Welsh leader Llewelyn Fawr, Prince of Gwynedd who had become his father-in-law in 1215 [2] when Reginald married Llywelyn's daughter, Gwladus Ddu.

Henry III restored Reginald to favour and the Bramber estates (confiscated by King John) in 1217.

Welsh wars
At this seeming betrayal, Rhys and Owain, Reginald's Welsh nephews who were Princes of Deheubarth, were incensed and took Builth, except the castle. Llywelyn Fawr also became angry and his forces besieged Brecon. Reginald eventually surrendered to Llewelyn and gave up Seinhenydd (Swansea). By 1221 they were at war again, with Llewelyn again laying siege to Builth. The siege was relieved by King Henry III's forces. From this time on Llewelyn tended to support the claims of Reginald's nephew John de Braose concerning the de Braose lands in Wales.

Reginald was a witness to the re-issue of Magna Carta by King Henry III in 1225. He died two or three years later in 1227 or 1228 in Brecon and was succeeded by his son by his first wife, Graecia Briwere (or Brewer), daughter of William Brewer, 1st Baron Brewer, the ill-fated William de Braose. He was buried in Brecon Priory Church (now Brecon Cathedral).

It may be that the Matilda de Braose who was the wife of Rhys Mechyll, Prince of Deheubarth was the daughter of Reginald.

See also
House of Braose

Notes
1. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography underB riouze [Braose], William (III) de
2. Brut y Tywysogion

References
Complete Peerage, G E Cokayne, Vol 1 pages 21–22 for the family of Reginald

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Maud and William De Braose are reputed to have had 16 children.The best documented of these are listed below.
Issue:
1. Maud de Braose (died 29 December 1210), married Gruffydd ap Rhys II, by whom she had two sons, Rhys and Owain.
2. William de Braose (died 1210). Starved to death with his mother in either Windsor or Corfe Castle. He married Maud de Clare, daughter of Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, by whom he had issue, including John de Braose.
3. Margaret de Braose (died after 1255), married Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath, son of Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath and Rohese of Monmouth.
4. Reginald de Braose (died between 5 May 1227 and 9 June 1228), married firstly, Grace, daughter of William Briwere, and secondly, in 1215, Gwladus Ddu, daughter of Welsh Prince Llewelyn the Great. He had issue by his first wife, including William de Braose, who married Eva Marshal.
5. Giles de Braose, Bishop of Hereford (died 13 November 1215)
6. John de Braose (died before 27 May 1205), married Amabil de Limesi.
7. Loretta de Braose, married Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester. She died without issue.
8. Annora de Braose, married Hugh de Mortimer and later became a recluse at Iffley.
9. Flandrina de Braose, Abbess of Godstow, (elected 1242, deposed 1248).

Reginald married verch Llewelyn, Gwladys in 1215. Gwladys (daughter of ap Iorwerth, Prince Llewelyn and Plantagenet, Princess Joan) was born in 1194 in Gwynedd, Wales; died in 1251 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Reginald married de Briwere, Grecia in 1203 in Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales. Grecia was born in 1176 in Stoak, Cheshire, England; died in 1223 in Bramber, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 9ZCP-M8Z

Notes:

https://www.geni.com/people/William-de-Braose-IV/4129460599360059866
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86930215/william-de_braose

William was the son of William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber and Maud de St. Valéry. He married Maud de Clare, daughter of Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and Amice FitzRobert de Meullant of Gloucester, by whom he had issue, including John de Braose.

After his mother refused to hand over William as a hostage to King John, they fled to Ireland, where they found refuge at Trim Castle with the de Lacy's, the family of his sister Margaret. In 1210, King John sent an expedition to Ireland. William and Maud escaped but were apprehended on the Antrim coast while trying to sail for Scotland. After being briefly held at Carrickfergus Castle, they were sent to England. By the orders of King John they were taken to Corfe Castle were William and Maud was walled up alive inside the dungeon where they starved to death

The manner in which Maud and her son William met their deaths so outraged the English nobility that Magna Carta, which King John was forced to sign in 1215, contains clause 39; it reads:
No man shall be taken ,imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.

William IV de Braose

Buried:
Body lost or destroyed

William married de Clare, Mathilde in 1196 in England. Mathilde (daughter of de Clare, Sir Richard and FitzWilliam, Amice) was born in 1180 in Yorkshire, England; died in 1213 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; was buried in 1213 in Bramber, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: "'Black William" Sixth baron of Aberwgavenny Braose
• Appointments / Titles: 6th Earl of Braose
• Appointments / Titles: Baron of Brecknock
• Appointments / Titles: Lord of Abergavenny
• FSID: LKTL-FDH
• Appointments / Titles: 1227; 10th Baron of Abergavenny
• Appointments / Titles: 1227; Lord of Builth

Notes:

William de Braose (c. 1197 – 2 May 1230) was the son of Reginald de Braose by his first wife, Grecia Briwere. . The Welsh, who detested him and his family name, called him Gwilym Ddu, Black William. He succeeded his father in his various lordships in 1227, including Abergavenny and Buellt. He was captured by the Welsh forces of Prince Llywelyn the Great, in fighting in the commote of Ceri near Montgomery, in 1228. William was ransomed for the sum of £2,000 and then furthermore made an alliance with Llywelyn, arranging to marry his daughter Isabella de Braose to Llywelyn's only legitimate son Dafydd ap Llywelyn. However, it became known that William had committed adultery with Llywelyn's wife, Joan, Lady of Wales, and Braose was taken at his own home and transported to Wales. The marriage planned between their two children did, however, take place. Llywelyn had William publicly hanged on 2 May 1230, possibly at Crogen, near Bala, though others believe the hanging took place near Llywelyn's palace at Abergwyngregyn. William's wife Eva continued to hold de Braose lands and castles in her own right, after the death of her husband. She was listed as the holder of Totnes in 1230, and was granted 12 marks to strengthen Hay Castle by King Henry III on the Close Rolls (1234–1237). Per Wikipedia.org--WILLIAM DE BRAOSE (DIED 1230).

William was hanged for an adulterous affair with Joan Plantagenet, wife of Llewelyn Fawr

William married Marshal, Lady Eva in 1223 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Eva (daughter of Marshal, Earl William and FitzGilbert, Isabel de Clare) was born on 16 Oct 1200 in Pembroke Castle, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; was christened between 8 Apr and 7 May 1206 in St David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died in 1246 in Llanthony, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried in 1246 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Bramber, Sussex, England; Lord of Bramber Gover
• Appointments / Titles: Gower, Glamorgan, Wales; Lord of Gower
• Appointments / Titles: Stinton Hall, Salle, Norfolk, England; Lord of Stinton
• Nickname: Tadody
• FSID: LH73-R16

Notes:

John de Braose, Lord of Gower, born c1197, died 18 July 1232 at Bamber, co Sussex from a fall from a horse; married 1219 Margaret, died 1263, daughter of Llewellyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Nicknamed "Tadody" by the Welsh when he was hidden in Gower as a child after King John had his father and grandmother killed. He was later in the custody of Engelard de Cigogny (castellan of Windsor) along with his brother Giles. Cigogny was ordered to give the two boys up to William de Harcourt in 1214. At this time John became separated from his brother. He was present at the signing of the Magna Charta in 1215.

John disputed his uncle Reginald's claim to the Braose lands, sometimes resorting to arms. Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, helped him to secure Gower (1219). In 1221, with the advice and permission of Llewelyn, he repaired his castle of Abertawy (Swansea). He purchased the Rape of Bramber from Reginald and his son William in 1226. In that year John confirmed the family gifts to Sele Priory, near Bramber, and to the Abbey of St FLorent, Saumur, and added others. After the death of Reginald (1228) he became Lord of Skenfrith, Grosmont, and Whitecastle, the three Marcher castles, by charter from the king but he lost these in 1230 to Hugh de Burgh at the same time as Gower became a subtenancy of de Burgh's Honour of Carmarthen and Cardigan.

See Castle of Abertawy, Swansea

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Joan de Braose, surnamed Tadody, had been privately nursed by a Welsh woman at Gower. This John had grants of lands from King Henry III and was also possessed of the Barony of Brembye, in Sussex, where he died in 1231, by a fall from his horse, his foot sticking in the stirrup. He married, it is stated, Margaret, dau. of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, by whom (who m. afterwards Walter de Clifford) he had a son, his successor, William de Braose. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 72, Braose, Baron Braose, of Gower]
- Jim Weber, Rootsweb

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Sir John "Tadody" de Braose, Lord of Bramber and Gower "Lord Bramber gower", "Lord of Stinton", "de Braose", "de Briouse" B: 1197 Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales D: 07/18/1232 Bramber, Sussex, England. He was in royal custody until he came of age in January 1218, indicating a birth year about 1197. He had been privately nursed by a Welsh woman, at Gower. This John de Braos had grants of lands from King Henry III. and held also the Barony of Brembye, in Sussex, where he died in 1231, by a fall from his horse, his foot remaining in the stirrup. Nicknamed "Tadody" by the Welsh when he was hidden in Gower as a child after King John had his father and grandmother killed. He was later in the custody of Engelard de Cigogny (castellan of Windsor) along with his brother Giles. Cigogny was ordered to give the two boys up to William de Harcourt in 1214. At this time John became separated from his brother. M: Margred verch Llewelyn B: 1202 Meisgyn, Penychen, Glamorganshire, Wales D:1264 Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England, buried Priory Church/Aconbury, Herefordshire, England. John disputed his uncle Reginald's claim to the Braose lands, sometimes resorting to arms. Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, helped him to secure Gower (1219). In 1221, with the advice and permission of Llewelyn, he repaired his castle of Abertawy (Swansea). He purchased the Rape of Bramber from Reginald and his son William in 1226. In that year John confirmed the family gifts to Sele Priory, near Bramber, and to the Abbey of St FLorent, Saumur, and added others. After the death of Reginald (1228) he became Lord of Skenfrith, Grosmont, and Whitecastle, the three Marcher castles, by charter from the king but he lost these in 1230 to Hugh de Burgh at the same time as Gower became a subtenancy of de Burgh's Honour of Carmarthen and Cardigan.

John married verch Llywelyn, Lady Margred in 1219 in Bramber Castle, Bramber, Sussex, England. Margred was born in 1202 in Glamorgan, Wales; was christened in 1208 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 28 Oct 1267 in Clifford Castle, Clifford, Herefordshire, England; was buried on 28 Oct 1267 in Priory Church, Aconbury, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]