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Personal data Maud 'Lady of la Haie' de Saint Valéry (=Matilda of Hay, de Waleran) 

• Alternative names: Matilda of Hay, Maud de Waleran
• She was born about 1155 in Bramber, Sussex, England, Great Britain.
• Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on September 2, 1933.
• She died in the year 1210 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, Great Britain.
• A child of Bernard de Saint Valéry
• A child of Renaud (Réginald) de Saint Valéry and Nn Nn
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Maud 'Lady of la Haie' de Saint Valéry (=Matilda of Hay, de Waleran)

She is married to Guillaume III 'Ogre of Abergavenny' de Braose.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Maud de Braose  ± 1173-???? 
2. Joan de Braose  ± 1175-????
3. Laurette de Braose  ± 1176-1266
4. Margareth de Braose  ± 1177-1200 
5. William 'Gam' de Braose  ± 1179-1211 
6. Giles de Braose  ± 1181-1215
7. Reginald (=Reynold) de Braose  ± 1182-1228 
8. John de Braose  ± 1183-1206
9. Eleanor de Braose  ± 1185-> 1241
10. Leuca de Braose   

Notes about Maud 'Lady of la Haie' de Saint Valéry (=Matilda of Hay, de Waleran)

Starved to death by King John

LifeNotes: She and her son William de Braose were thrown in prison by King John and both perished there of starvation. She was known as the "Lady of la Haie" and also as "Moll Walbee".

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Maud de Saint Valery (Matilda of Hay)
Died: 1210 in Windsor castle.  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 (above) 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 (left) 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. Father: Bernard de St Valery (d.ca. 1190) (see note) Mother: ???  Married to William de Braose, Lord of Brecknock, Bergavenny etc.   Child 1: William de Braose  ; Child 2: Maud (Susan) = Gruffyd ap Rhys Child 3: Giles, Bishop of Hereford   Child 4: Roger Child 5: Philip Child 6: Bertha = William de Beauchamp   Child 7: Thomas Child 8: Walter Child 9:  John = Amabil de Limesi Child 10: Margaret = Walter de Lacy   Child 11: Henry Child 12: Annora = Hugh de Mortimer  Child 13: Loretta = Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester   Child 14: Reginald de Braose   Child 15: Flandrina, Abbess of Godstow Child 16: Bernard  This ordering of the children follows the Braose genealogy given in the 13th century MS (British Library, Cotton Julius D, x ) on the history of the Lords of Brecon.  Note. 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. I recently discovered 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.  (See a copy of the post to soc.genealogy.medieval which gives more detail.)

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Child 1: William de Braose
Child 2: Maud (Susan) = Gruffyd ap Rhys
Child 3: Giles, Bishop of Hereford
Child 4: Roger
Child 5: Philip
Child 6: Bertha = William de Beauchamp
Child 7: Thomas
Child 8: Walter
Child 9:
John = Amabil de Limesi Child 10: Margaret = Walter de Lacy
Child 11: Henry
Child 12: Annora = Hugh de Mortimer 
Child 13: Loretta = Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester
Child 14: Reginald de Braose
Child 15: Flandrina, Abbess of Godstow
Child 16: Bernard

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