William IV De Braose 
William IV was born in 1204 in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales. William IV's father was Reginald De Braose and his mother was Grace De Briwere. His paternal grandparents were William III De Braose and Matilda De St Valery; his maternal grandparents were William De Briwere and Beatrice De Lavalle. He was an only child. He died at the age of 26 on May 2nd, 1230.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Lord Of Abergavenny
William de Braose. This feudal lord fell a 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 into prison at the conclusion of the banquet. He was soon afterwards put to death with the unfortunate princess. He had married, Eva, dau. of Walter Mareschal, and sister of Richard, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had four daus., his co-heirs, viz., Isabel, Maud, Even, and Eleanor. The line of the branch thus terminating in heiresses. [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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In 1229, Dafydd went to London to do homage for the lands and rights he would inherit, and in the same year he married Isabella, the daughter of William de Breos. That was one of a series of marriages between Llywelyn's offspring and members of the great families of the March, for apart from Gruffudd, who married Senana, a descendant of Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd, all Llywelyn's progeny married into the Francigenae. So great was the desire of the de Breos family to ally with the prince that the uncle, the brother and the daughter of William de Breos married members of the house of Aberffraw. Yet the relationship between the two families did not prevent Llywelyn from hanging William de Breos in 1230 for excessive familiarity with Joan. The hanging was an audacious act and the lack of reaction to it proof of the power of Llywelyn and of the intensity of the desire of William's sons-in-law to obtain their share of his possessions, for William was the last of his line of the de Breoses. The male line died out remarkably frequently among the families of the Marcher Lords and the marriages of co-heiresses played a key role in the dismemberment of the empires of their fathers. [A History of Wales, John Davies, Allen Lane - The Penguin Press, London, 1993]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1049 in Brieuze, Normandy, France d.~ 1087 in Bramber, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1075 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.Bet 1134 and 1135 in Palestine, Holy Land
- b.~ 1030
- b.1126 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.Bet 1192 and 1193
- b.~ 1049 in Totnes, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1084 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1153 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.09 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, Seine-Et-Oise, France
- b.~ 1065 in Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1097 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Engl d.24 Dec 1143 in Forest Of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1067 in Ballon, Maine, France
- b.1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1050 in Neufmarché, Seine-Inferieure, France d.1093
- b. in Aberhonwy, Brecon, Wales d.> 1143 in Abbey Of Lanthony, Wales
- b.~ 1081 in Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1182 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.05 May 1221
- b.~ 1061 d.~ 1091
- b.~ 1090 d.1166
- b.~ 1125 in Beckley, Oxfordshire, England d.~ 1192
- b.~ 1155 in Beckley, Oxfordshire, England d.1210 in Corfe Castle, , England
- b.1204 in Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales d.02 May 1230
- b.~ 1115
- b.~ 1145 in Stoke, Devonshire, E d.1226
- b.~ 1186 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.~ 1215
- b.~ 1149 in Stoke, Devonshire, England
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