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  [SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
  
  Starved to death by KIng John.
  
  starved.
  
  
  she brought her husband many castles in the Welsh Marches.
  
  
  
  
  
  In "Ancestral Roots" I find that Maud de St. Valerie, wife of
  William de Braiose (177-6), was killed by King John by being
  walled up with her young son William in her castle in 1210.
  Does anyone know the story behind her death?
  
  Essentially, in about 1206-7 John, for reasons unknown, started
  to persecute William de Briouze and others. Over the next
  several years things went from bad to worse. In 1208, John
  demanded hostages from William and Matilda (Maud) apparently
  said that she wouldn't deliver up her sons to John as he had
  murdered his nephew Arthur. After this things got really bad
  and William and his family were forced to flee to Ulster
  (William was Lord of Limerick). In spring 1210 John prepared an
  expedition to Ireland and Matilda fled with her sons to
  Scotland (William was in Wales at this time). Matilda and the
  children were captured by a Scots lord and handed over to John.
  Matilda and the eldest son (William IV) were imprisoned,  and
  were never seen again. The common report, recorded in several
  monastic annals, was that they had been starved to death.
  
  For a fuller version of this I would suggest you read :
  King John by W.L. Warren, Eyre Methuen, 1978
  The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216 by Frank Barlow,
  Longman, 1985[charlemegne.FTW]
  
  Murdered by King John who had her walled up alive in her castl e walls with her young son William.
  
  Apparently her 'offence' was that when the king's messengers cam e to Maud to collect her sons as hostages, she said she would no t hand her sons over to John, the murderer of his own nephew Art hur.

Details of Maud's family with William de Braose III Lord Bramber

Details of Maud's family with William de Braiose