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Marquis William de Braose, VI

Marquis William de Braose, VI

Male Bef 1224 - Bef 1291  (66 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name William de Braose 
    Prefix Marquis 
    Suffix VI 
    Birth Bef 15 Jul 1224 
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 6 Jan 1290-1291  Findon, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Sele priory Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 2 Siblings 
    Person ID I120634  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Father Baron John de Braose, 'Tadody',   b. Abt 1197, Brembye, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jul 1232, Brembye, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years) 
    Mother Marared Drwyndon ferch Llywelyn Fawr,   b. 1205-1208   d. 1263 (Age 55 years) 
    Marriage 1219  Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F17592  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Aline (Aliva) Multon,   b. Abt 1255, Bramber, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
    +1. William VII de Braose,   b. Abt 1280, Bramber, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1 May 1326 (Age 46 years)
     2. Peter de Braose   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F145793  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Family 2 Isabelle de Clare,   b. 1240   d. Bef 1271 (Age 31 years) 
    Marriage Jun 1258 
    Family ID F48957  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2010 

    Family 3 Mary de Ros   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
    +1. William de Braose   d. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Piers de Braose,   b. Abt 1274, Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Feb 1312, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
    Family ID F145794  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Family 4 Beatriz de Castilla,   b. Dec 1254   d. 1280 (Age 25 years) 
    Marriage 1271 
    Children 
    +1. Margaret de Braose,   b. Abt 1274, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1370 (Age 97 years)
    Family ID F48956  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Family 5 Agnes de Moels   d. Bef 1271 
    Children 
    +1. Giles de Braose   d. 1304-1305, Woodlands, Dorsetshire Or Buckingham Manor, Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F246834  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Dec 2007 

  • Notes 
    • Lord Buckingham

      William was only twelve at the death of his father and became a ward of Henry III's chief minister, Peter de Rivaux. But within two years a warrent was out for Peter's arrest and his fall was imminent.
      The king demanded the return of Peter's ward and the surrender of the de Braose lands. Peter de Rivaux flatly refused and sent a message to say that William de Braose was too ill at present. The king's messenger reported, however, that "he had found the youth sound and well, riding a large black Spanish horse, with Peter, from the town of Rosse towards London."
      William was finally placed in the wardship of the king's brother, Richard of Cornwall. He was raised at Henry's court and was probably introduced to his first wife there. She was another royal ward and heiress, Alina de Moulton.
      When he came of age, the young lord met with a barrage of law suits from the women of the family, including his mother and sister. Later the children and relatives of his three wives added further claims for a portion of the de Braose inheritance.
      William was removed from the turmoil of his family's earlier history and became a committed royalist. His Welsh roots were forgotten and even relations with his mother appear to have deteriorated. She married Walter de Clifford and the couple issued several claims against William arising from her first marriage. William was called to answer charges that he seized his mother's goods as they were transported towards Chichester and imprisoned her men.
      William went to some lengths to make provision for all his children and involved the Countess of Devon in the legal processes. Decendants of his son Peter lived at Chesworth in Horsham, Sussex and others became the de Braoses of Wiston, near Steyning. William also negotiated some excellent marriages. The earliest full length brass memorial of a woman represents William's daughter Margaret, who married Ralph de Camoys. It is set in the floor of Trotton church, near Midhurst in Sussex. Scoundrels
      Law suits over land and money continued throughout William's life. His debts soared when Simon de Montfort attempted to ruin him. As a committed royalist, William had fought against the de Montforts and devastated Simon de Monfort junior's manor of Sedgewick (which was in the rape of Bramber). In the months after his victory at the battle of Lewes, Simon de Montfort set his sights on revenge as well as personal expansion in Sussex.
      William de Braose failed to appear at the Tower of London when a de Montfort "court" summoned him to hear the charges. On June 30, 1264 damages were awarded against William for the outrageous sum of ten thousand marks. In addition, his son and heir and his castle at Knepp, already seized by Simon de Montfort, would be held until arrangements for payment were made.

      In 1278 William's port of Shoreham was protesting to the king about their lord's extortionate methods of raising revenue and abuses of custom duties. He was accused of taking "from every ship one cask before the mast and one behind and likewise took prise of wax and other merchandise against the will of the merchants and in the king's despite". William denied the charge but his financial affairs had become a source of scandal and earned him a scoundrel's reputation.

      A Swansea historian (W H Jones) is quoted in the Oystermouth castle guidebook, referring to the de Braose lords of Gower:
      "The de Braoses were a licentious clan of freebooters, who appear to have been so habituated to duplicity and chicanery as to render it impossible to be straightforward and honest in their dealings with their neighbours".

      Lord Buckingham.
      Marquis of Montferrat in NW Italy, in italian province of Alessandria.
      Montferrat was in north-west Italy, and the Italian name for it is "Monferrato".
      It's about midway between Torino (Turin) and Milano (Milan) and south of the Po River.
      The old capital is now the city of "Casale Monferrato" and, if geographical coordinates help any, that city is at 45 08 N and 8 27 E. In italian province of Alessandria.

      Montferrat was a lordship in northern Italy, technically a member of the Empire but subject to Provencal and Angevin influences. The marquis was a prominent figure on the Ghibelline side in thirteenth century Mediterranean politics,
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      Lord of Brampton and Gower, Lord of Buckingham, stiled "Lord Brewose." Born about 1224, was of full age by 15 July 1245. He succeeded his father in 1232 and held Buckingham Manor in full by 1259.
      From The de Braose Web: [http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/index1.htm]: "William was only 12 when his father died. The wardship of William and the de Braose lands were granted by Henry III to Peter des Rievaux. On his fall in 1234 these custodies were passed on to the king's brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall. When William came of age he took control of the Braose lands in Gower, Bramber and Tetbury. He confirmed the grants made by his father of the rents of cottages in Tetbury to the priory at Aconbury, founded in memory of Maud de St Valery by her daughter Margaret. (The cottages are still there.)He was plagued throughout his life by a series of legal battles with his female relatives."



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