Ancestral Trails 2016 » MAUD ST VALERY (1148-1210)

Personal data MAUD ST VALERY 

• Alternative name: Matilda Of Hay (also known as / alias)
• She was born in the year 1148 in St Valery-en-Caux, Normandy, France.
• She died in the year 1210 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, she was 62 years old.
• A child of BERNARD ST VALERY and MATILDA

Household of MAUD ST VALERY

She is married to WILLIAM III de BRAOSE.

They got married in the year 1168 at Bramber, West Sussex, she was 20 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Joan ALICE  1175-1189 
2. Annora de BRAOSE  1185-> ????
3. WILLIAM de BRAOSE  1171-1210 
4. REGINALD de BRAOSE  1178-1227 
5. Philip de BRAOSE  1187-????
6. Thomas de BRAOSE  ± 1181-????
7. Walter de BRAOSE  ± 1182-????
8. MARGARET de BRAOSE  1176-> 1255 
9. Roger de BRAOSE  ± 1175-????
10. Flandrina de BRAOSE  ± 1192-± 1248
11. Loretta de BRAOSE  1181-????
12. Giles de BRAOSE  1173-1215
13. Maud de BRAOSE  1169-1210 
14. Henry de BRAOSE  1185-????
15. Bernard de BRAOSE  ± 1194-????
16. John de BRAOSE  1183-< 1205
17. Bertha de BRAOSE  ± 1179-????

Notes about MAUD ST VALERY

Matilda's parentage was uncertain for a long time. Many writers have suggested that she may have been a daughter of Reginald de St Valery. There is a reference to her in L'Histoire des Ducs de Normandie et des Rois d'Angleterre, ed. Francisque Michel (Paris, 1840), written in the 13th century which describes her as a "daughter of Bernard de St Valery". This appears to have finally settled the matter

Maud (Matilda) de Braose was also known as the Lady of la Haie and to the Welsh as Moll Walbee. Married to William de Braose, the "Ogre of Abergavenny", she was a significant warrior in her own right. Her long defence of Pain's Castle when it was besieged by the Welsh earned it the name "Matilda's Castle". The local people saw her as a supernatural character. She was said to have built Hay Castle single handed in one night, carrying the stones in her apron. When one fell out and lodged in her slipper she picked it out and flung it to land in St Meilig's churchyard, three miles away across the River Wye at Llowes. The nine foot high standing stone can still be seen inside the church.

The final fall of her husband may owe a lot to her hasty reply to King John when he requested her son William as a hostage in 1208. She refused on the grounds that John had murdered his nephew Arthur whom he should have protected. The dispute between John and the de Braoses led to Maud dying of starvation in the King's castle at Windsor along with her son, while her husband, stripped of all his lands, died the following year in exile in France.
SOURCE Braose Family Website

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