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WILLIAM DE BRAOSE (d. 1211)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM DE See also:BRAOSE (d. 1211)  , See also:lord of Brecknock, See also:Radnor and See also:Limerick, spent the See also:early See also:part of his See also:life fighting the Welsh in See also:Radnorshire . He was high in See also:King See also:John's favour, received a large number of honours, and was even given the custody of See also:Prince See also:Arthur . But John and he quarrelled, probably over See also:money (1207) . In 1208 John began to suspect the fidelity of the whole See also:family, and See also:William had to See also:fly to See also:Ireland . After a number of attempted reconciliations, he was outlawed (1210) and died at See also:Corbeil (1211) . It is said that his wife and son were starved to See also:death by John . See Foedera, i . 107; Histoire See also:des dues (ed . See also:Michel), See also:Wendover; Kate Norgate's John Lackland . A descendant, William de See also:Braose (d . 1326), lord of See also:Gower, was a devoted follower of See also:Edward I., and in 1299 was summoned to See also:parliament as See also:baron de Braose; and his See also:nephew See also:Thomas de Braose (d . 1361) also distinguished himself in the See also:wars and was summoned as baron de Braose in 1342 .

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barony became See also:extinct in 1399; but a claim to the barony of William de Braose, which, as he had no son, See also:fell into See also:abeyance between his two daughters and co-heirs, Alina (wife of Lord See also:Mowbray) and See also:Joan (wife of John de See also:Bohun), or their descendants, may still be traced by careful genealogists in various See also:noble See also:English families .

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