William de Briouze

- 1230

• Name	William de Briouze  [1]
  Birth	of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Totnes, Devon, England   [3]
  Death	2 May 1230  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Alternate death	Bef 1247  [7]
  Person ID	I9948	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, 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
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Reynold de Briouze,   b. of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales d. Between 1227 and 1228
  Mother	Grace Briwerre   d. Bef 1215
  Family ID	F6152	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eve Marshal   d. Between Jan 1242 and 1246
  Children	+ 1. Eve de Briouze   d. Between 20 Jul 1255 and 28 Jul 1255 + 2. Maud de Briouze   d. 16 Mar 1301 + 3. Eleanor de Briouze   d. Bef 25 Jun 1252
  Family ID	F1949	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2017

  
  

• Notes

  "William de Briouze, s. and h. by 1st wife. He m. Eve, da. and in her issue coh. of William (Marshal), Earl of Strigul and Pembroke, by Isabel, suo jure Countess of Pembroke. He d. 1 May 1230, being hanged by Llewelyn abovenamed. His widow d. before 1246." [Complete Peerage I:22, as corrected in Volume XIV.] Hanged by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, after intrigues with Llewelyn's wife. "He was discovered in Joan's chambers, accused of being her lover, and promptly and publicly hanged. While the story that William and Joan were lovers has been generally accepted, the Annals of Margam (in T. Gale, ed , Historiae Britannicae et Anglicanae Scriptores XX (Oxford, 1687), 2-18, [anno] MCCXXX) implies that the 'intimacy' was devised by Llywelyn to avenge himself on William for political injuries inflicted not only by William but by the entire Braose family; the execution was hailed by the Welsh as a vindication of a blood-feud against the Braoses dating from at least 1176. Indeed, shortly after the execution Llywelyn wrote to William's widow Eva and to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Eva's brother, stating, in effect, that so far as he was concerned, the intended marriage between Llywelyn's son Dafydd and Eva's daughter Isabella could go forward as planned, and that he could not have prevented the Welsh magnates from taking their vengeance. See J. Goronwy Edwards, Calendar of Ancient Correspondence concerning Wales (Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales, History and Law Series, 2)(Cardiff, 1935), pp 51-52, nos. XI.56a, 56b. The marriage in fact took place three months later." [William Addams Reitwiesner, "The Children of Joan, Princess of North Wales," The Genealogist 1:80, Spring 1980.]

  
  

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