John de Braose , Lord of Bramber & Gower 
John de was born about 1197 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales. John de's father was William IV The Younger de Braose , Lord Bramber and his mother was Maud de Clare. His maternal grandparents were Richard de Clare , MCS, Earl of Hertford and Amice FitzRobert Countess of Gloucester. He had a sister named Maude de. He was the younger of the two children. He had a half-brother named John de. He died on July 18th, 1232 in Bramber, Sussex, England.General Notes
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 the Abbey 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 at the 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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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1175 in of Bramber, Sussex, England & Gower, Wales d.1210 in Corfe, Windsor, England
- b.~ 1197 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales d.18 Jul 1232 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1158 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.<28 Nov 1217
- b.~ 1176 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.1213
- b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.1 JAN 1224/25 in England
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John de and Margaret verch were married in a religious ceremony in 1219 in Wales. They had two sons named William V de and Richard de.
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Children
William V de Braose , Lord of Bramber & Gower
William V de was born about 1224 in Bramber, Sussex, England. He died in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales.
Richard de Braose , of Stinton, Sir
Richard de was born before 1232 in Bramber, Sussex, England. He died before June 18th, 1292 in Stinton, Norfolk, England.
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