Lord Of Bramber & Gower John De Braose Lord Of Bramber & Gower 
John De was born about 1197 in Of Bramber, Sussex, England & Gower, Wales. John De's father was William III 5Th Baron De Braose Lord Bramber and his mother was Maud (Matilda) De St. Valery [Lady Of Lahaie]. His paternal grandparents were William II De Braose 1st Baron Of Gwentland and Bertha De Pitres Heiress Of Brecon/Hereford; his maternal grandparents were Bernard IV De St. Valery and Eleanor De Domnart. He had twelve brothers and seven sisters, named Roger De, Robert De, Thomas De, Giles De, William IV The Younger De, Walter De, Reginald De, Hugh De, Henry De, Bernard De, Fulk De, Phlilp De, Flandrina De, Matilda De, Joan De, Laurette De, Margaret De, Leuca De and Eleanor De. He was the youngest of the twenty children. He died on July 18th, 1232 in Bramber, Sussex, England. He was buried in (See Notes).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.~ 1025 in Bruis, Normandy, France d.< 1098
- b.1040 in Briouze Near Argentan, Normandy, France d.> 1089 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1025
- b.1075 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.1112 in Holy Land, Palestine
- b.~ 1025 in St Clair-Sur-Elle, Manche, Normandy, France d. in Barnstable, Devonshire, England
- b.1058 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1027 in Normandy, France
- b.1112 in Abergavenny, Gwent, Wales d.~ 1192 in Weobley, Herefordshire, England
- b.1029 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England
- b.1059 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England d.> 1123
- b.~ 1020 in Of, Barnstaple, Devonshire, England
- b.1084 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1040 in Picquigny, Picardy, France d.1085
- b.1060 in Picquigny, Picardy, France
- b.1153 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.09 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, Marne, France
- b.1045 in Bal DE Pitres, France d.1089 in Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1070 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.1129 in Llanthony Abbey, Gloucester, England
- b.1050 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d. in England
- b.1092 in Glouster, Gloustershire, England d.24 Dec 1143 in Forest Of Dean, Shot By An Arrow
- b.~ 1052 in Ballon, Maine, France
- b.~ 1070 in Ballon, Maine, France d.Unknown
- b.~ 1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.Unknown
- b.1018 in Neufmarche, Seine-Inferiere, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1050 in Neufmarche, Seine-Inferiere, Normandy, France d.1093 in Aberhonwy, Breconshire, Wales
- b.1027 in St Valaery-En-Caux, Normandy, France
- b.< 1093 in Aberhonwy, Breconshire, Wales d.> 1143 in Gloucestershire, England
- b.1055 in Arwystle, Herefordshire, England d.> 1100 in Richard's Castle, Ludlow, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1075 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.Unknown
- b.~ 1056 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales d.1153
- b.~ 1197 in Of Bramber, Sussex, England & Gower, Wales d.18 Jul 1232 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.1035 in St Valery, -En-Caux, Normandy, France d.> 1097 in Holy Land
- b.1061 in Isleworth, Middlesex, Enland d.1099 in Isleworth, Middlesex, Enland
- b.1040 in Montlhery, Seine-Et-Oise, France d.Unknown
- b.1094 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England d.1166
- b.1117 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England d.1190
- b.1155 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England d.1210 in Corfe, Windsor, England
- b.1128
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