WILLIAM De BRAOSE 
WILLIAM was born in 1153 in BRAMBER, SUSSEX.1 WILLIAM's father was WILLIAM De BRAOSE and his mother is BERTHA De HEREFORD. His paternal grandfather was PHILIP De BRAOSE and his paternal grandmother is JOHEL AENOR (EVA) De TOTNES; his maternal grandparents were MILES (MILO) FITZWALTER De GLOUCESTER and SIBYL De NEUFMARCHE. He had five brothers and three sisters, named ENGERAM, REGINALD, PHILIP, ROGER, GILES, SYBIL, MATILDA and BERTHA. He was the third oldest of the nine children. He had a half-sister named MAUD (SUSAN). He died at the age of 58 on August 9th, 1211 in CORBEIL, MARNE, FRANCE.1 General Notes
2 SOUR S002120
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4 TEXT Date of Import: Apr 17, 2001
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HISTWILLIAM DE BRAOSE III INHERITED THE LARGE ESTATES OF HIS GRANDMOTHE
R, AND P OSSESSED THE HONOR OF BRAOSE,NORMANDY. THIS FEUDAL LORD WAS A PE
RSONAGE OF POW ER AND INFLUENCE DURING THE REIGNS OF HENRY II, AND RICHA
RD I, FROM WHOM HE REC EIVED THEENTIRE KINGDOM OF LIMERICK FOR THE SERVI
CE OF SIXTY KNIGHTS TO BE HELD WITH JOHN LACKLAND. WILLIAM APPEARS TO HA
VE ENJOYED THE FAVOR OF KING JOHN IN THE FIRST FEW YEARS OF HIS REIGN 1196
-1205. BUT IN 1206,WHEN THE UNION LABORE D UNDER ANINTERDICTION, AND JO
HN DEEMED IT EXPEDIENT TO DEMAND HOSTAGES FROM HI S BARONS TO ASSURE ALLEG
IANCE, SHOULD THE POPE PROCEED TO ABSOLVING THEM FROM O BEDIENCE TO THE CR
OWN, HIS OFFICERS CAME UPON THE MISSION TO THE BARON DE BRAOS E, WERE SE
NT BYWILLIAM'S WIFE MATILDA (AKA MAUD) WITH THE MESSAGE THAT NONE OF T
HE DE BRAOSE CHILDREN SHOULD BE HANDED OVER TO JOHN BECAUSE OF HIS HEARTLE
SS M URDER OF HIS OWN NEPHEW, ARTHUR COMTE DE BRETAGNE. WILLIAM REBUKED H
IS WIFE, S AYING THAT IN ANY WAYHE HAD OFFENDED THE KING, HE WAS READY T
O, UPON JUDGEMENT OF THE COURT, SATISFY THE KING WITH ANYTHING BUT GIVI
NG HIM HOSTAGES. JOHN IMM EDIATELY ORDERED WILLIAM BE ORDERED TO WAL
ES TO FIGHT IN THE WAR WITH GWYNWYNWY N, AND THAT MAUD AND WILLIAMIV BE SE
IZED AND PLACED IN CONFINEMENT AT CORFE CAS TLE, WHERE THEY WERE WALL
ED UP AND STARVED TO DEATH. WILLIAM III ESCAPED ASSAS INATION IN WAL
ES BY DRESSING AS A BEGGAR AND DIED SOON AFTER IN PARIS.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0963 d.1027
- b.0979 d.1054
- b.0965
- b.1040 in BRIENZE, NORMANDY d.1089 in BRAMBER, SUSSEX, ENGLAND
- b.1005
- b.1075 in BRAMBER, SUSSEX, ENGLAND d.1112 in PALESTINE
- b.1018
- b.1048
- b.1001 in Normandy, France d.06 Aug 1028 in Poisoned
- b.1023
- b.1112 in BRAMBER, SUSSEX, ENGLAND d.1192 in CORBEIL, FRANCE
- b.1029
- b.1059
- b.1084 in BARNSTABLE, DEVONSHIRE
- b.1030
- b.1060
- b.1153 in BRAMBER, SUSSEX d.09 Aug 1211 in CORBEIL, MARNE, FRANCE
- b.1030 d.1086
- b.1065 in GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND d.1129 in LLANTHONY ABBEY, GLOUCESTER, ENGLAND
- b.1035
- b.1050
- b.1097 in HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND d.24 Dec 1143 in FOREST OF DEAN, GLOUSTERSHIRE, SHOT WHILE HUNTING
- b.1035
- b.1065
- b.1123 in GLOUCESTER, ENGLAND
- b.1020
- b.1050 in NEUFMARCHE, FRANCE d.1093
- b.1020
- b.1090 in ABERHONWY, BRECONSHIRE, WALES d.1143 in GLOUCESTERSHIRE
- b.1055 in HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND d.1100
- b.1079 in HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND
- b.1011 in RHUDDLAND, FLINTSHIRE, WALES d.05 Aug 1063 in WALES
- b.1056 in RHUDDLAND, FLINTSHIRE, WALES
- b.1035 in SAXE, MERCIA, ENGLAND d.1086
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‌WILLIAM were married in a religious ceremony in 1169.2
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