General Notes

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The name of the SIEUR DE BRAY occurs in the Roll of Battle Abbey, amongst the associates in arms of the CONQUEROR, and although the authenticity of that celebrated record has in many instances been questioned, in this the statement is confirmed by the fact of WILLIAM DE BRAY being one of the subscribing witnesses to the charter of the year 1088, conferred by the NORMAN on the Abbey he had founded in commemoration of his triumph at Hastings. No grant of lands appears however in Domesday Book to the Brays; but that the family supplied sheriffs to Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Bucks, and some other counties between 1202 and 1273, is fully established.
Source: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Vol III  P. 242