William "Black Will" de Braose Baron de , Lord Abergavenny 
William "Black Will" de was born in 1204 in Brecknock, Surrey, England. William "Black Will" de's father was Reginald Baron de , Lord Abergavenny Braose and his mother was Grace Briwere. His paternal grandparents were Baron de Braiose William de Braose Baron de Braiose and Maude de St. Valery; his maternal grandparents were William II de Briwere and Beatrice de Vaux. He had a brother named William "Black Will" de Braose. He died at the age of 26 on May 2nd, 1230 in Wales.General Notes
William de Briouze, son and heir by 1st wife. He m. Eve, daughter an in her issue coheir of William (Marshal), Earl of Strigul and Pembroke. He d. 2 May 1230, being hanged by Llewelyn [ap Iorwerth, his step-mother's father] abovenamed. His widow d. bef. 1246. [Complete Peerage I:22]
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William de Braose fell victim to the jealousy of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, who suspecting an intimacy between him and the princess, his wife, King Henry's sister, invited him to an Easter feast, and treacherously cast him in prison at the conclusion of the banquet. He was soon afterwards put to death with the unfortunate princess. [I believe Joan Plantagenet died 6 or 7 years later.]
From The Genealogist article by Wm. Addams Reitwiesner
He was discovered in Joan's chambers, accused of being her lover, and promptly and publicly hanged. While the story that William and Joan were lovers has been generally accepted, the Annals of Margam (in T. Gale, ed , Historiae Britannicae et Anglicanae Scriptores XX (Oxford, 1687), 2-18, [anno] MCCXXX) implies that the "intimacy" was devised by Llywelyn to avenge himself on William for political injuries inflicted not only by William but by the entire Braose family; the execution was hailed by the Welsh as a vindication of a blood-feud against the Braoses dating from at least 1176. Indeed, shortly after the execution Llywelyn wrote to William's widow Eva and to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Eva's brother, stating, in effect, that so far as he was concerned, the intended marriage between Llywelyn's son Dafydd and Eva's daughter Isabella could go forward as planned, and that he could not have prevented the Welsh magnates from taking their vengeance. See J. Goronwy Edwards, Calendar of Ancient Correspondence concerning Wales (Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales, History and Law Series, 2)(Cardiff, 1935), pp 51-52, nos. XI.56a, 56b. The marriage in fact took place three months later.
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- b.1040 in Briouze near Argentan, Normandy, France d.> 1089 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.1075 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.1112 in Holy Land, Palestine
- b.1058 in Normandy, France
- b.1112 in Abergavenny, Gwent, Wales d.< 1193 in Weobley, Herefordshire, England
- b.1059 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England d.> 1123
- b.1084 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England
- b.1060 in Picquigny, Picardy, France
- b.1153 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.09 Aug 1211 in Corbiel, Marne, France
- b.~ 1070 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.1129 in England
- b.1092 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.24 Dec 1143 in Shot while hunting in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1070 in Ballon, Maine, France
- b.~ 1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1050 in Neufmarche, Seine-Inferiere, Normandy, France d.1093 in Aberhonwy, Breconshire, Wales
- b.< 1093 in Aberhonwy, Brecon, Wales d.> 1143 in Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1075 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England
- b.1178 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.09 Jun 1228 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
- b.1061 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England d.1099 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England
- 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
- b.1204 in Brecknock, Surrey, England d.02 May 1230 in Wales
- b.~ 1060
- b.~ 1088 in Normandie, France
- b.~ 1115 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.1226 in Stoke, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1145 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.1226 in Stoke, Devonshire, England
- b.1186 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1102 in Gillesland, Irthington, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1070 in Idsell, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1105 in Burgh-on-the-Sands, Near Carlisle
- b.~ 1086 in Cumberland, England
- b. in Stoke, Devonshire, England
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‌William "Black Will" de and Eva were married in a religious ceremony on May 2nd, 1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales. They had a son named Peter de.
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