William I Baron de Braose , Sir 
William I Baron de was born in 1049 in Briouze near Argentan, Normandy, France. William I Baron de's father was Robert de Brus and his mother was Gunnora. His paternal grandparents were Ragnvald II Brusisson 19th Jarl of Orkney and Arlogia of Orkney. He had a brother named Roger de. He was the younger of the two children. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Adam de and Agatha de. He died after 1089 in Bramber, Sussex, England.General Notes
Guillaume de Briouze is recorded in lists of those present at the Battle of Hastings. He became the first Lord of the Bramber Rape by 1073 and built Bramber Castle. William made considerable grants to the abbey of Saint Florent, Saumur to endow the foundation of Sele Priory near Bramber and a priory at Briouze. He continued to fight alongside King William in the campaigns in Britain, Normandy, and Maine.
See remains of gatehouse at Bramber Castle.
William de Braose came into England with the Conqueror and held, at the general survey, considerable estates in the counties of Berks, Wilts, Surrey, Dorset, and Sussex. He was s. by his son, Philip de Braose. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 72, Braose, Baron Braose, of Gower]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1011 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland d.Dec 1046 in Papa Stronsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.~ 1030 in Bruis, Manche, Normandy, France d.< 1098 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1013 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.1049 in Briouze near Argentan, Normandy, France d.> 1089 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1030 in France d.< 1050
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‌William I Baron de and Agnes de were married in a religious ceremony before 1073 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England. They had a son and a daughter, named Philip Baron de and Miss de.
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Children
Philip Baron de Braose , Sir
Philip Baron de was born in 1075 in Bramber, Sussex, England. He died at the age of 37 in 1112 in Holy Land, Palestine.
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