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  Cause of Death:<CAUS> Starved to death by KIng John.
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Walle d up within her castle with son William by KIng John in 1210;  starved.@@S005967 @@
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Earned John's enmity by accusinh him of murder of Arthur , Duke of Brittany.Sharon Kay Penman "Here be Dragons" p. 277@@S005967@@
  REFN: 4 974
  [G675.ged]
  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 h er
  young son William in her castle in 1210.  Does anyone know the story
  beh ind her death?
  Essentially, in about 1206-7 John, for reasons unknown, started to
  persecute William de Briouze and others. Over the next several years
  th ings 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 W illiam and his family were forced to flee to Ulster
  (William was Lord of Lime rick). 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 t he children were captured by a
  Scots lord and handed over to John. Matilda an d the eldest son (William
  IV) were imprisoned,  and were never seen again. Th e 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 :
  K ing John by W.L. Warren, Eyre Methuen, 1978
  The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042 -1216 by Frank Barlow, Longman, 1985

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