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William de Briouze

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  • Name William de Briouze 
    Birth of Briouze, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth of Bramber, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 9 Aug 1211  Corbeil, near Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Alternate death Sep 1211  Corbeil, near Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I7525  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
    Last Modified 6 Jan 2018 

    Father William de Briouze,   b. Abt 1100, of Bramber, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1180 (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Mother Bertha of Hereford,   b. of Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1150  [1, 3, 5
    Family ID F6214  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Maud de St. ValĂ©ry,   b. Abt 1150   d. 1210, Windsor, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Children 
    +1. William de Briouze   d. 1210, Windsor, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Reynold de Briouze,   b. of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1227 and 1228
    +3. Bertha de Briouze
    +4. Matilda de Briouze   d. 29 Dec 1210, Llanbardarn Fawr, Ceredigion, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location
    +5. Margaret de Briouze,   b. Abt 1181   d. Aft 25 Jun 1245 (Age ~ 64 years)
    Family ID F2352  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Dec 2019 

  • Notes 
    • "William was the most notable member of the de Braose dynasty. His steady rise and sudden fall at the hands of King John is often taken as an example of that king's arbitrary and capricious behaviour towards his barons." [Wikipedia]

      "William de Briouze, Lord of Briouze, Bramber, Brecon, Over Gwent, &c., s. and h. He m. Maud De St. Valery, "Lady of La Haie." In consequence of his well-known quarrel with King John, his lands were forfeited in 1208, and his wife and 1st s. starved to death in the dungeons of Corfe (or of Windsor) in 1210. He d. at Corbeil near Paris, 9, and was bur. 10 Aug. 1211, in the Abbey of St. Victor at Paris." [Complete Peerage I:22]

      "He slaughtered Seisyll ap Dyvnwal (abovenamed) and a host of unarmed Welshmen, in the castle of Abergavenny in 1175, in revenge for the death of his uncle Henry of Hereford [Brut y Tywysogian, R. de Diceto, etc.). Seisyll was owner of Castle Arnold, and is said in an inaccurate version of the Brut to have captured Abergavenny in 1172, the slaughter being dated 1177 (The Gwentian Chronicle, Cambrian Arch. Assoc, p. 137). But the better version of the Brut (Rolls Ser., p. 218; Y Brutieu, in Welsh Texts, ed. Rhys and Evans, 1890, p. 330) on the contrary, states that Seisyll was captured in 1172 by the garrison of Abergavenny. (ex inform. G. W. Watson.)" [Complete Peerage I:22, footnote (a).]

  • Sources 
    1. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.

    2. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    3. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.

    4. [S1182] John P. Ravilious, 30 Sep 2002, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.

    5. [S2158] Pedigree and Progress: Essays in the Genealogical Interpretation of History by Anthony Wagner. London: Phillimore & Co., 1975.