William IV the Younger de BRAOSE, LORD BRAMBER

Birth:
Abt 1175
of Bramber, Sussex, England & Gower, Wales
Death:
1210
Corfe, Windsor, England
Marriage:
Bef 1196
2nd Husband
Sources:
The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by WalterLee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 28A-2
Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter LeeSheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 28A-2
The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by WalterLee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, line 28A
Notes:
                   Name Suffix: Lord Bramber
Ancestral File Number: 9G90-PS
William de Braose, born perhaps c1175, died Corfe or Windsor Castle 1210, of starvation by order of King John, son of William de Braose, died 1211, Lord of Bramber, Sussex, by his wife Maud de St Valery.  [Magna Charta Sureties]

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William did not accompany King Richard on Crusade butfought with King John against Philip in Normandy (1203/4).  King John demandedWilliam as a hostage for his father's loyalty in 1208.  His mother Maud refused and the fled to Ireland.  In 1210 John prepared an expedition to Ireland. Maud and William escaped Ireland, but were apprehended in Scotland. William the father was in Wales at the time.  It is believed that Maud and William were starved to death at Windsor Castle (Some say Corfe).

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William, who perished by starvation with his mother at Windsor m. Maud, dau. of the Earl of Clare, with whom he had the town of Buckingham, in frank marriage, and left a son, John. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 72,Braose, Baron Braose, of Gower]
Maud de CLARE
Birth:
Abt 1176
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Death:
1213
Sources:
Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter LeeSheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 28A-2
Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter LeeSheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 54-1
The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by WalterLee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, line 28A, 54
Notes:
                   Maude (or Mathilde) de Clare; m. William de Braose, b. perhaps c 1175, died Corfe or Windsor Castle, 1210, of starvation by order of King John, son of Williamde Braose, d. 1211, Lord of Bramber, Sussex, by his wife Maud de St. Valery.  [Magna Charta Sureties line 28a-2]

Note: MCS line 54-1 refers to Maud de Clare m. Roger de Lacy, without giving Maud's parents.  The above (which indicatesher parents in the prior generation 28a-1) references her m. William de Braose.  I assume that the two Maud(e)s are the same person; but MCS doesn't say.


Sed et iste Rogerus constabularius duxit in uxorem Matildem de Clere, sororemthesaurarii Eboracensis Ecclesie, de qua genuit Johannem constabularium" (Thoresby Society VIII, p 241). She is not Maud de Clare, duaghter of Richard de Clare and Amicia de Mellent. It would appear from this that Matilda was not a member of the famous Clare family but of a known Yorshire family of Clere. This is suggested by the fact that her brother was treasurer of the church at York (presumably of the Minster). [See Loyd *Origins of some Anglo-Norman Families, p.29
Children
Marriage
1
Maude de BRAOSE
Birth:
Abt 1196
Gower, Wales
Death:
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Maud is daughter of Maud de Clare, according to Ancestral Roots.  The Plantagenet Ancestry indicates her mother is Maud de Fay.  Even though Ancestral Roots is probably more reliable, I am keeping her parentage as I originally had it.
2
John de BRAOSE, LORD OF BRAMBER & GOWER
Birth:
Abt 1197
Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales
Death:
18 Jul 1232
Bramber, Sussex, England
Notes:
                   Name Suffix: Lord Of Bramber & Gower
Ancestral File Number: V9SV-0K
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 theAbbey 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 atthe 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]
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William IV the Younger de Braose, Lord Bramber - Maud de Clare

William IV the Younger de Braose, Lord Bramber was born at of Bramber, Sussex, England & Gower, Wales Abt 1175. His parents were William III 5Th Baron de Braose, Lord Bramber and Maud (Matilda) de [Lady of Lahaie] St. Valery.

He married Maud de Clare Bef 1196 at 2nd Husband . Maud de Clare was born at Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Abt 1176 daughter of Richard de Clare, Earl Hertford & Glouceste and Amice [Countess] Fitzrobert .

They were the parents of 2 children:
Maude de Braose born Abt 1196.
John de Braose, Lord of Bramber & Gower born Abt 1197.

William IV the Younger de Braose, Lord Bramber died 1210 at Corfe, Windsor, England .

Maud de Clare died 1213 .