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Personal data William de Braose, 10th Lord of Abergavenny 3rd Lord of Bramber Sheriff of Abergavenny II 

• Alternative names: William de Braose, William DeBraose 3rd Lord of Bramber - Sheriff de Braose II, William d'Braose Baron Gwentland II, William de Briouze
• He was born in the year 1112 in Briouze, Normandy, France.
• Alternative: He was born in the year 1112 in Bramber, Sussex, England.
• He died in the year 1192 in Bramber, Sussex, England, he was 80 years old.
• Alternative: He died in the year 1192 in Weobley, Herefordshire, England, he was 80 years old.
• A child of Phillip de Braose and Aenor de Totnais
• A child of Sir Philip de Braose, and Aenor de Totnais,

Household of William de Braose, 10th Lord of Abergavenny 3rd Lord of Bramber Sheriff of Abergavenny II

(1) He is married to Bertha fitz Walter d'Pitres.

They got married in the year 1145 at Herefordshire, England, he was 33 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Agnes de Braose  1130-1170 
2. Matilda (Maud) de Braose  1146-1210 
3. Bertha de Braose  1151-???? 
4. William III "The Ogre of Abergavenny" de Braose,  1153-1211 
5. Sybil de Braose  1157-> 1228 

(2) He is married to Millicent de Rethel.

They got married in the year 1129, he was 17 years old.

Notes about William de Braose, 10th Lord of Abergavenny 3rd Lord of Bramber Sheriff of Abergavenny II

From c1173 to 1230 successive fathers, sons, and younger brothers called de Briouze were feudal lords of Abergavenny. William de Briouze, the first of them, who derived his name from his lordship of Briouze in Normandy, married the sister and coheir of the 2nd Earl of Hereford (also daughter of 1st Earl) mentioned above, which seems to account for his coming into possession of a lordship in that part of the Welsh marches. [Burke's Peerage]ber, Sussex, son and heir of Philip de Briouze, be Aenor, daughter and heir of Juhel son of Alvred, Lord of Barnstaple and Totnes. He married, in or before 1150, Bertha, 2nd sister and coheir of William of Hereford being daughter of Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Gloucester (sic. Earl of Hereford). Sheriff of Hereford, Easter 1173-75, at which earlier date probably he already possessed the Lordship of Over Gwent. He was living in 1179. [Complete Peerage I:21-2, XIV:6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]cendants spelt the name Brewes. In some 25 early references to this name, not in charter latin, it appears as Breouse, Breuse, or Brewys (the last of which still exists as a surname), but never as Braose, the form adopted in peerages, for which it seems doubtful if there be any good authority.ke; Miles was Earl of Hereford.ortant lordships to the de Braoses in 1166. These included Brecon and Abergavenny. William became Sheriff of Hereford in 1174. His interest in Sussex was maintained as he confirmed the grants of his father and grandfather for the maintenance of Sele Priory and extended St Mary's, Shoreham.d co-heir of her brother, William, Earl of Hereford, by whom he acquired Brecknock, with other extensive territorial possessions. He had two sons, William and Reginald, and was s. by the elder. [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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