Ancestral Trails 2016 » WILLIAM de BRAOSE (1035-1096)

Données personnelles WILLIAM de BRAOSE 

• Il est né en l'an 1035 dans Briouze St Gervais, Normandie, France.
• Titre: 1st Baron Bramber
• (Alternative Name) : Guillaume de Briouze.
• Il est décédé entre le 1093 et le 1096 dans Bramber, West Sussex.
• Un enfant de ROBERT de BRAOSE et GUNNORA de FRANCE

Famille de WILLIAM de BRAOSE

Il est marié à EVE de BOISSEY.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1073 à Briouze St Gervais, Normandie, France, il avait 38 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. PHILIP de BRAOSE  1073-1134 
2. Matilda de BRAOSE  1075-????

Notes par WILLIAM de BRAOSE

Guillaume de Briouze is recorded in lists of those present at the Battle of Hastings. He became the first Lord of Bramber Rape by 1073 and built Bramber Castle. William made considerable grants to the abbey of Saint Florent, Saumur to endow the foundation of Sele Priory near Bramber and a priory at Briouze. He continued to fight alongside King William in the campaigns in Britain, Normandy and Maine.

The latest evidence for William is his presence at the consecration of his church at Briouze in 1093. In 1096 his son Philip was active in diplomacy in the Norman wars. From this we can surmise that William died between 1093 and 1096.

Father: Uncertain.
Mother: Gunnor (See Round, Cal. Doc. Fra. p148)

Brydges edition of Collins' Peerage claims he was first married to Agnes, dau of Waldron de Saint Clare but no evidence for this can be found. It may be an example of Bruce - Braose confusion.
According to L C Perfect, a 13th century genealogy in the Bibliothèque de Paris gives the name of his wife as Eve de Boissey, widow of Anchetil de Harcourt. There is a lot of evidence from contemporary charters which supports this view.
http://douglyn.co.uk/BraoseWeb/family/william1.html

William de Braose (or William de Briouze), First Lord of Bramber (died 1093/1096) was previously lord of Briouze, Normandy. He was granted lands in England by William the Conqueror soon after he and his followers had invaded and controlled Saxon England.

Braose had been given extensive lands in Sussex by 1073. He became feudal baron of the Rape of Bramber where he built Bramber Castle. Braose was also awarded lands around Wareham and Corfe in Dorset, two manors in Surrey, Southcote in Berkshire and Downton in Wiltshire and became one of the most powerful of the new feudal barons of the early Norman era.

He continued to bear arms alongside King William in campaigns in England, Normandy and Maine in France.

He was a pious man and made considerable grants to the Abbey of Saint Florent, in Saumur, and endowed the foundation of priories at Sele near Bramber and at Briouze.

He was soon occupying a new Norman castle at Bramber, guarding the strategically important harbour at Steyning, and began a vigorous boundary dispute and power struggle with the monks of Fécamp Abbey in Normandy, to whom William the Conqueror had granted Steyning, brought to a head by the Domesday Book, completed in 1086.

Braose built a bridge at Bramber and demanded tolls from ships travelling further along the river to the busy port at Steyning. The monks challenged this, and they also disputed Braose's right to bury people in the churchyard of his new church of Saint Nicholas at Bramber, demanding the burial fees for themselves, despite the church's having been built to serve the castle and not the town. The monks then produced forged documents to defend their position and were unhappy with the failure of their claim on Hastings, which was very similar. They claimed the same freedoms and land tenure in Hastings as King Edward had given them at Steyning. On a technicality, King William was bound to uphold all rights and freedoms held by the Abbey before King Edward's death, but the monks had already been expelled ten years before that. William wanted to hold Hastings for himself for strategic reasons, and he ignored the problem until 1085, when he confirmed the Abbey's claims to Steyning but compensated it for its claims at Hastings with land in the manor of Bury, near Pulborough in Sussex. In 1086 King William called his sons, barons, and bishops to court (the last time an English king presided personally, with his full court, to decide a matter of law) to settle the Steyning disputes, which took a full day. The result was that the Abbey won over William de Braose, forcing him to curtail his bridge tolls, to give up various encroachments onto the Abbey's lands, including a farmed rabbit warren, a park, 18 burgage tenements, a causeway, and a channel used to fill his moat. Braose also had to organise a mass exhumation of all Bramber's dead, the bodies being transferred to the Abbey's churchyard of Saint Cuthman's in Steyning.

Progeny
William de Braose was succeeded as Lord of Bramber by his son, Philip de Braose, and started an important Anglo-Norman dynasty (see House of Braose).

Death
William de Braose was present in 1093 at the consecration of a church in Briouze, his manor of origin whence originates his family name, thus he was still alive in that year. However, his son Philip was issuing charters as Lord of Bramber in 1096, indicating that William de Braose died sometime between 1093 and 1096.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Braose,_1st_Lord_of_Bramber

Lord of Briouze, Normandy, whose castle was not far from Falaise where William the Conqueror was born. His wife's identity is unknown, but she was probably a close relative of the Ralph son of Waldi for whose soul William made a grant to Saint-Florent in the 1080's.

William de Braose, 1st Baron Bramber made considerable grants to the abbey of Saint Florent in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. These grants were made to endow the foundation of Sele Priory near Bramber, in West Sussex, and a priory at Briouze, in Normandy.

He was a Norman from Briouze-Saint-Gervais, Normandy. Also called Guillaume de Briouze. He was born circa 1036 in Briouze, near Falaise, Orne, Normandy Brydges edition of Collins' Peerage claims William de Braose was first married to Agnes, dau of Waldron de Saint Clare but no evidence for this can be found. It may be an example of Bruce - Braose confusion.

According to L C Perfect, a 13th century genealogy in the Bibliothèque de Paris gives the name of his wife as Eve de Boissey, widow of Anchetil de Harcourt. There is a lot of evidence from contemporary charters which supports this view.

1066-1070 He may have accompanied William the Conqueror to England but is not found in the records as having fought at Hastings on 14 October 1066.

He built Bramber Castle after 1073 on the land that William I gave him in Sussex, England. He married Eve, dame de Boessey-le-Chatel before 1070; Her 2nd husband.

1072 He was one of the five castellans holding the militarily important Sussex Rapes, his own known by the late twelfth century as the Rape or Honour of Bramber, before 1072. 1st Lord of Bramber Rape in West Sussex, England, between 1073 and 1093.

1086 He held considerable estates in the counties of Berkshire, Wiltshire, Surrey, Dorset, and Sussex. He was holder of Washington, value £50 5s, his men-at-arms 50s and 12d, the manor revenue £100, in 1086 in West Sussex, England. He continued to fight alongside King William in the campaigns in Britain, Normandy and Maine before 1087.

1093 William was present at the consecration of his church at Briouze but by 1096 his son Philip was issuing charters, consequently from this evidence he probably died some time between 1093 and 1096. SOURCE:K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occuring in English Documents, 1066-1166, Volume I. Domesday Book and the Braose Family website.

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