John de Braose

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John de Braose , also John de Breuse , (* around 1197 or 1198 ; † before July 18, 1232 in Bramber ), 8th Baron von Bramber, was a cambro-Norman nobleman.

Origin and youth

John came from the old Braose family and was the eldest son of William de Braose , who died in captivity of King John Ohneland , the eldest son of William de Braose, 4th Baron of Bramber , and his wife Maud de Clare .

There are contradicting information about his childhood: according to some information, he and his three younger brothers remained in captivity at Corfe Castle until, after King John's death in 1216 , they were taken into the care of Peter des Roches by Peter de Maulay , the castle's constable , of the Bishop of Winchester and were finally released in 1218. According to another version, Engelard de Cigogné , the castellan of Windsor Castle , took John and his brother Giles into his care after the death of their father and handed them over to William de Harcourt in 1214 . Nicknamed Tadody in Welsh , John lived tucked away on the Gower Peninsula , one of his grandfather's former Welsh possessions.

Fight for the grandfather's inheritance

In the meantime, his uncle Reginald , a younger brother of his father, had taken most of his grandfather's goods. John also claimed his grandfather's inheritance from 1217 and allied himself with Llywelyn ab Iorwerth , Prince of Gwynedd in Wales. Reginald, who was married to a daughter of Llywelyn, had just had his father-in-law through a settlement with the new King Henry III. betray. Thereupon this occupied part of his lands, including Gower, which he handed over to his ally Rhys Gryg . In 1219 John finally married Margaret ferch Llewelyn († after 1268), a daughter of Llewelyn and his wife Johanna von Wales . Llywelyn had arranged this marriage, presumably to humiliate Reginald, and gave 1220 Gower to his new son-in-law. With the approval of his father-in-law, John secured his property in 1221 by rebuilding the ruined Swansea Castle . His claims to his grandfather's other estates were not upheld in court, but in 1226 he acquired the Rape of Bramber in Sussex from Reginald's son William . After Reginald's death in 1228 he inherited the three castles of Skenfrith , Grosmont and White Castle in Wales, but in 1230 the king withdrew these three castles and gave them to Hubert de Burgh . At the same time, the king placed Gower under a fiefdom of Carmarthen and Cardigan , a Welsh rule of de Burgh.

John died in Bramber in 1232 after falling from his horse. His widow married Walter Clifford von Bronllys and Clifford for the second time .

Family and offspring

From his marriage to Margaret ferch Llewelyn, John had four sons, including:

  • William de Braose (1220–1291), 2nd Baron of Gower and Bramber
  • John de Braose , Lord of Glasbury († before June 18, 1292),
  • Richard de Breuse (* before 1232, † before 1292); ∞ before 1265 Alice Le Rus († 1300/01), heiress of William Le Rus, of Stinton Hall ( Salle (Norfolk) )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Edward Lloyd: A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest . Vol. 2. Longmans, Green and Co., London 1912, p. 658