House of Braose
The House of Braose (alias Breuse, Brewes, Brehuse, in the 11th to 14th centuries.
Lands held
The first English land-holding by the family was the
Prominent land-holders
The most significant members of this family were as follows, with ordinal numbers based on those shown by Sanders, English Baronies:
- William I de Braose (died 1093/1096). 1st feudal baron of Bramber.
- Builth.
- Juhel de Totnes. Held 1/2 barony of Barnstaple. He married Bertha FitzWalter, the heiress of the marcher lordships of Brecon and Abergavenny.
- Philip II de Braose (fl.1174), younger brother of William II.
- Henry FitzCount but was regained by grant in 1218 to Reginald de Braose(d.1228). Kington was seized by King John in 1208, but was regranted to Reginald in 1216 by King Henry III.
- William IV de Braose (d.1210), eldest son of William III, pre-deceased father, father of John de Braose (d.1232). He died in royal captivity at Corfe Castle, Dorset, with his mother Maud de St Valery.
- Giles de Braose (d.s.p. 1215), Bishop of Hereford, 2nd son of William III. 5th feudal baron of Bramber. Died without progeny.
- Reginald de Braose (d.1228), 3rd son of William III. 6th feudal baron of Bramber. In 1216 he was regranted by King Henry III many of the lands seized by King John in 1208 from his father William III, including Bramber (which he temporarily surrendered in 1218 to his son William V), the moiety of Totnes, and Kington. Reginald also held Brecon, Abergavenny, Radnor and Builth.
- William III de Cantilupe(d.1254))
- William VI de Braose (died 1291), son of John. 9th feudal baron of Bramber. Created Baron by writ 1st Baron Braose as he is recorded as having sat in the parliament of April to May 1290, whereby he may be held to have been summoned by writ.[5] Held Bramber and Gower.
- William VII de Braose (died 1326), son of William VI. 10th feudal baron of Bramber, 2nd Baron Braose. Held Bramber and Gower. On 29 December 1299 William VII de Braose was summoned to parliament. On his death in 1326, the first creation of the barony fell into abeyance.[5] His co-heiresses were his daughters Aline and Joan.
Others
- William de Braose, Bishop of Llandaff from 1266 to 1287
Arms
William III de Braose
These arms were attributed to William III de Braose (d.1211) by Matthew Paris in Historia Anglorum, Chronica Majora, Part III (1250–59) British Library MS Royal 14 C VII f. 29v[6] (shown there inverted to denote his death): Party per fesse gules and azure, three garbs or. Matthew Paris is not generally regarded as a reliable source for heraldry and these arms must be considered doubtful.
Giles and Reginald de Braose
The arms of Giles de Braose (d.1215) and his brother Reginald de Braose (d.1228), younger sons of William III de Braose (d.1211) : Barry of six vair gules and ermine and azure.
William V de Braose
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Matthew Paris (c.1200-1259) in his Historia Anglorum (folio 116) attributed the arms, Party per pale indented gules and azure, to William V de Braose (d.1230). They appear as a marginal drawing of an inverted shield referring to his "impious murder" (Nota impiam murthram).[7] However Matthew Paris depicts different arms for him in his Chronica Majora, Part III, fol.75v, in an inverted shield: Gules, four piles meeting in base or[8]
William VII de Braose
The Falkirk
See also
Sources
- Sanders, I.J., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960: Braose baronies in Wales, p. 21; Kington, p. 57; Totnes, p. 89; Bramber, p. 108; Barnstaple, p. 104
References
- ^ "Horsham – St Mary – Sussex Parish Churches". Sussexparishchurches.org. 2013-11-03. Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
- ^ Richardson Magna Carta Ancestry pp. 136–137
- ISBN 0-521-31153-5.
- ^ Holt, J.C. “The Casus Regis Reconsidered.” Haskins Society Journal 10 (2001): pp.163-182.
- ^ a b G E Cokayne ed. V Gibbs, The Complete Peerage, Vol. 2, (1912) pp302-4
- ^ Lewis, Susanne, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora [1]; and see The Matthew Paris Shields, published 1958 in series "Aspilogia II", MP IV No7, Boydell Press
- ^ Historia Anglorum, Chronica Majora, Part III; (1250–59) British Library MS Royal 14 C VII f. 116[2] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Lewis, Susanne, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora
Further reading
- Power, Daniel (2015). "The Briouze family in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries: inheritance strategies, lordship and identity". Journal of Medieval History. 41 (3): 341–361. ISSN 0304-4181.
- Rigollet, Amélie (2017). Mobilités du lignage anglo-normand de Briouze (mi-XIe siècle - 1326) (PhD) (in French). University of Poitiers.
- Rigollet, Amélie (2021). Mobilités du lignage anglo-normand de Briouze (mi- xi e siècle – 1326). Histoires de famille. La parenté au Moyen Age (in French). Vol. 22. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ISBN 978-2-503-59248-0.