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• Appointments / Titles: Lord of Gower, Abergavenny, Brecknock, Builth, Radnor, Kington, Limerick, Glamorgan, Skenfrith, Briouze in Normandy, Grosmont, and White Castle
• FSID: 9HTG-9V9
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1192 and 1199, Herefordshire, England; Sheriff of Herefordshire
• Military: 1195, Painscastle, Radnorshire, Wales; The castle remained in Welsh hands until about 1195 when the area was captured by William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, who refortified the castle. His formidable wife Maud de Braose, also known as Matilda, held Painscastle against the Welsh for a few m

Notes:

William de Braose, (or William de Briouze), 4th Lord of Bramber (1144/1153 – 9 August 1211), court favourite of King John of England, at the peak of his power, was also Lord of Gower, Abergavenny, Brecknock, Builth, Radnor, Kington, Limerick, Glamorgan, Skenfrith, Briouze in Normandy, Grosmont, and White Castle.
William was the most notable member of the de Braose dynasty. His steady rise and sudden fall at the hands of King John is often taken as an example of that king's arbitrary and capricious behaviour towards his barons.

William was the son of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber and his wife Bertha of Hereford, also known as Bertha de Pitres, (born 1130) daughter of Miles Fitz Walter, Earl of Hereford and his wife, Sibyl, daughter of Bernard de Neufmarche. From his father he inherited the Rape of Bramber, in Sussex, and through his mother he inherited a large estate in the Welsh Marches area of modern-day Monmouthshire.

In 1175, William de Braose carried out the Abergavenny Massacre, luring three Welsh princes and other Welsh leaders to their deaths. His principal antagonist was a Seisyll ap Dyfnwal, of Castell Arnallt near Llanover in the valley of the River Usk near Abergavenny, whom he blamed for the death of his uncle Henry. After having invited the Welsh leaders to a Christmas feast at Abergavenny Castle under the pretense of peace and the start of a new era at the end of the year (a traditional time for settling outstanding differences amongst the Welsh), he had them murdered by his men. This resulted in great hostility against him among the Welsh, who named him the "Ogre of Abergavenny". Gerald of Wales exonerates him and emphasizes the religious piety of de Braose and his wife and de Braose generosity to the priories of Abergavenny and Brecon. William de Braose did however reputedly hunt down and kill Seisyll ap Dyfnwal's surviving son, Cadwaladr, a boy of seven.

In 1192 William de Braose was made sheriff of Herefordshire, a post he held until 1199. In 1196 he was made Justice Itinerant for Staffordshire. In 1195 he accompanied King Richard I of England to Normandy and in 1199, William de Braose fought beside Richard at Châlus, where the king was mortally wounded. He then supported King John's claim to the throne of England, and represented the new king, making various royal grants.

In 1203, William de Braose was put in charge of Arthur of Brittany, whom he had personally captured the previous year at the Battle of Mirebeau. William was suspected of involvement in Arthur's disappearance and death, although no concrete evidence ever came to light. There is somewhat better evidence that he at least knew the truth of the matter. William was in attendance with John in Normandy at the time of Arthur of Brittany's imprisonment and it was alleged that Arthur suffered the same fate as the Welsh princes at William's hand, although this has never been proven. Arthur's death remains a mystery. After Arthur disappeared, De Braose served in the war of 1204 against King Philip II of France in France.

He was greatly favoured by King John early in his reign. John granted him all that he might conquer from the Welsh in Radnorshire, gave him lordship over Limerick in Ireland (save for the city itself), possession of Glamorgan castle, and the Lordship of Gower with its several castles.

In early 1200, King John deprived Theobald Walter, 1st Baron Butler of all his offices and lands in Ireland because of his irregularities as sheriff. His lands were not restored until January 1202. ...
Before 1206 William successfully claimed half of the barony of Totnes from Henry de Nonant, to which family it had been granted after its forfeiture from Juhel de Totnes.
In 1206, after his service in France, King John gave William de Braose the three great neighbouring trilateral castles of Gwent (Skenfrith Castle, Grosmont Castle, and White Castle). These have been interpreted as bribes encouraging silence on the demise of Arthur, seen by many as a rightful heir to the throne occupied by John of England.

At this point only an earldom separated him from the greatest in England.

Soon after this, William de Braose fell out of favour with King John of England. The precise reasons remain obscure. King John cited overdue monies that de Braose owed the Crown from his estates, but the King's actions went far beyond what would be necessary to recover the debt. He distrained (seized) de Braose's English estates in Sussex and Devon, and sent a force to invade Wales to seize the de Braose domains there. Beyond that, he sought de Braose's wife, Maud de St. Valery, who, the story goes, had made no secret of her belief that King John had murdered Arthur of Brittany.

De Braose fled to Ireland, then returned to Wales as King John had him hunted in Ireland. In Wales, William allied himself to the Welsh Prince Llywelyn the Great, and helped him in his rebellion against King John.

In 1210, William de Braose fled Wales disguised as a beggar, to France. His wife and eldest son were captured. William died the following year in August 1211 at Corbeil, France. He was buried in the Abbey of St. Victor in Paris by a fellow exile and vociferous opponent of King John, Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury. His hopes to return alive to Wales and for a burial in Brecon were to be unfulfilled. William's wife, Maud, and eldest son, William, once captured, were allegedly murdered by King John, possibly starved to death while incarcerated at Windsor Castle and Corfe Castle in 1210.

While William had aroused the jealousy of the other barons during his rise, the arbitrary and violent manner of his fall very probably discomfited them and played a role in the Baronial uprisings of the next decade. The historian Sidney Painter, in his biography of King John, called it "the greatest mistake John made during his reign, as the King revealed to his Barons once and for all his capacity for cruelty."

The de Braose lineage
1. William de Braose's eldest son, William, married Maud (Matilda) de Clare (ca. 1184–1213), the daughter of Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford. This younger William was captured with his mother and starved to death in 1210. He had fathered four sons, John, Giles, Philip and Walter and although they were also held in prison, they were released in 1218. John, the eldest, was said to have been brought up secretly, in Gower, by a Welsh ally or retainer. On his release he came under the care of his uncle Giles de Braose. John made a claim to being the rightful heir of the de Braose lands and titles and although the courts did not find for him, his other uncle Reginald de Braose was able to cede by a legal convention the Baronies of both Gower and Bramber to him for a fee. This established John's branch of the family and positioned it for survival at least or, at best, an opportunity for continued future power and influence.
2. The middle son, Giles de Braose, exiled in France until 1213, was Bishop of Hereford from 1200 until his death in 1215. He made peace with King John and agreed terms for regaining de Braose lands in 1215 but had also made alliances with the Welsh leader Llywelyn the Great. He died in 1215 before he could come into the lands.
3. William's third son, Reginald de Braose reacquired his father's lands and titles for himself through simply seizing them back by force following the death of Giles. Reginald did not actually come to terms with the Crown until 1217 and the new, young King Henry III of England, after the death of King John. This, in turn, aroused the anger of Llywelyn the Great who had an understanding with Giles de Braose and the seeming duplicity caused the Welsh to attack de Braose lands in Brecon and Abergavenny and Gower. Abergavenny Castle had to be rebuilt as a result. Reginald de Braose died in 1228.
4. William's eldest daughter Matilda/Maud married a prominent Welsh prince, Gruffydd ap Rhys II of Deheubarth.
5. Another daughter, Margaret, married Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath in Ireland and himself another powerful Marcher Lord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Braose,_4th_Lord_of_Bramber

William married de Valéry, Lady Maud in 1167 in Bramber Castle, Bramber, Sussex, England. Maud (daughter of de Valéry, Bernard IV and de Valéry, Matilda) was born on 30 Nov 1155 in France; died in 1210 in Corfe Castle, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. de Braose, Baron Reginald was born in 1178 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died on 16 Jun 1228 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales; was buried after 16 Jun 1228 in Brecon Cathedral, Brecon, Breconshire, Wales.
2. de Braose, Lord William IV was born in 1175 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died in 1210 in Corfe Castle, Dorset, England; was buried in 1210 in Corfe Castle, Dorset, England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Bramber, Sussex, England; 3rd Lord of Bramber
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1173 and 1175, Herefordshire, England; Sheriff of Herefordshire

William married de Pitres, Bertha in 1150. Bertha was born in 1130 in England; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bertha of Hereford, also known as Bertha de Pitres (born c. 1130), was the daughter of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, and a wealthy heiress, Sibyl de Neufmarché.[1] She was the wife of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber[2] to whom she brought many castles and Lordships, such as Brecknock (including Hay Castle), and Abergavenny.

Family
Bertha was born in England in about 1130. She was a daughter of Miles, Earl of Hereford (1097- 24 December 1143) and Sibyl de Neufmarché.[3] She had two sisters, Margaret of Hereford,[4] who married Humphrey II de Bohun, by whom she had issue,[5] and Lucy of Hereford, who married Herbert FitzHerbert of Winchester, by whom she had issue.[citation needed] Her brothers included Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Walter de Hereford, Henry Fitzmiles, William de Hereford, and Mahel de Hereford.[6]

Bertha's paternal grandparents were Walter FitzRoger de Pitres, Sheriff of Gloucester and Bertha de Balun of Bateden,[7] a descendant of Hamelin de Balun,[citation needed] and her maternal grandparents were Bernard de Neufmarché, Lord of Brecon, and Nesta ferch Osbern.[8] The latter was a daughter of Osbern FitzRichard of Richard's Castle, and Nesta ferch Gruffydd.[9] Bertha was a direct descendant, in the maternal line, of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (1007- 5 August 1063) and Edith (Aldgyth), daughter of Elfgar, Earl of Mercia.[citation needed]

Bertha's father Miles served as Constable to King Stephen of England. He later served in the same capacity to Empress Matilda after he'd transferred his allegiance. In 1141, she made him Earl of Hereford in gratitude for his loyalty. On 24 December 1143, he was killed whilst on a hunting expedition in the Forest of Dean.[10]

Marriage and issue

Abergavenny Castle in Monmouthshire, Wales, was one of the castles Bertha of Hereford brought to her husband William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber
In 1150, Bertha married William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber (1112–1192), son of Philip de Braose, 2nd Lord of Bramber and Aenor, daughter of Judael of Totnes. William and Bertha had three daughters and two sons, including William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber.

In 1173, Bertha's brothers all having died without issue, she brought the Lordships and castles of Brecknock and Abergavenny, to her husband.[10] Hay Castle had already passed to her from her mother, Sibyl of Neufmarche in 1165, whence it became part of the de Braose holdings.

In 1174, Bertha's husband became Sheriff of Hereford.

Bertha's children include

William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, (1144/1153- 11 August 1211, Corbeil),[11] married Maud de St. Valery, daughter of Bernard de St. Valery, by whom he had 16 children.
Roger de Braose or Reynold de Briouse
Sibyl de Braose (died after 5 February 1227), married William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby (1136- 21 October 1190 at Acre on crusade), son of Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby and Margaret Peverel, by whom she had issue.
Maud de Braose, married John de Brompton, by whom she had issue.[12]
Legacy
Bertha died on an unknown date. She was the ancestress of many noble English families which included the de Braoses, de Beauchamps, de Bohuns and de Ferrers; as well as the Irish families of de Lacy and de Burgh.

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• Appointments / Titles: Bramber, Sussex, England; 2nd Lord of Bramber
• FSID: 9HVG-3HS
• Alternate Birth: 1075, Bramber Castle, Bramber, Sussex, England
• Life Event: 1103, Israel; Crusader

Philip married de Totnes, Lady Aenor in 1098 in Sussex, England. Aenor (daughter of de Totnes, Judeal Johel and de Picquigny, Bertha) was born in 1084 in Barnstaple, Devon, England; was christened in Briouze, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died in 1153 in Barnstaple, Devon, England; was buried in 1153 in Saint Mary Magdalene, Barnstaple, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: MRRC-VW8

Notes:

Aenor Eva de Totenais
Birth: circa 1084 Barnstaple, North Devon, Devonshire, England
Death: 1153 (65-73)
.
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Lord Judeal Juhel de Totenais, of Barnstable and Bertha de Picquigny
Wife of Philip de Braose, 2nd Lord of Bramber

Mother of William de Braose II, 3rd Lord of Bramber; Robert de Braose; Philip de Braose, II; Basilia de Braose; Maud Matilda de Braose; and Gillian de Braose « less
Half sister of Walter/Watheus lord of Etchells, Bredbury, and Brinnington and William de Aldithley, Knight

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Bramber, Sussex, England; 1st Lord of Bramber
• Appointments / Titles: Briouze, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; Lord of Briouze
• FSID: LYPR-VX5
• Residence: 1073, Horsham, Sussex, England; Bramber Castle

Notes:

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.

Norman victor
Braose had been given extensive lands in Sussex[1] by 1073. He became feudal baron of the Rape of Bramber[2] 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[1] 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.

Land disputes
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.

House of Braose
^ a b "Domesday Map". Retrieved 10 August 2011.
^ The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Lewis Christopher Loyd, David C. Douglas, The Harleian Society, Leeds, Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975, ISBN 0-8063-0649-1, ISBN 978-0-8063-0649-0
^ Elwes, Dudley G. Cary (1883). The Family of de Braose, 1066–1326. pp. 1, 2.
The Braose website
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Biography
One of 5 castellans of the Sussex Rapes: 1072. In Domesday. 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 issuing charters. From this we can deduce 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.

Per British History Online: "King Alfred(d. 899) devised BEEDING manor to his nephew Aethelm, but it was later evidently resumed, for in 1066 King Edward the Confessor had it as part of his feorm. William de Braose held it in demesne in 1086, when some outlying parts had been separated from it. Thereafter it descended with Bramberrape in the Braose, Mowbray, and Howard families until 1547, except between 1290 and 1326 when Mary, widow of William, Lord Braose, held it in dower and between 1524 and 1542 when Agnes, widow of Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, so held it. William, Lord Braose (d. 1290), was granted free warren there in 1281." (1)

"The manor of HORTON, called in the 16th century HORTON MAYBANK or HORTONHORSEY, was held in demesne by William de Braose in 1073.(1)

"The manor of TOTTINGTON, often called TOTTINGTON WOWOOD, in reference apparently to the wood later known as Hoe wood or Oldwood in the north-east part of the parish, belonged in 1066 to King Harold. William de Braose held it indemesne in 1073 and 1086."

"It is now generally agreed that the Sussex rapes as they existed later originated after the Norman Conquest, though there may have been other divisions of the county called rapes in Saxon times.Bramber rape had been granted to William de Braose by 1073 when he held in demesne a number of manors in a triangular area between Clapham in the west, Southwick in the east, and Shipley in the north.There seems no reason to think, as has been stated, that he received those lands appreciably later than the lords of the other rapes received their lands. The rape was known in the late 11th century by the name of its lord and perhaps alternatively as the castelry of Steyning, after its chief town. There are references of the late 11th century and c. 1139 to the castelry of Bramber; no reference to the rape of Bramber eo nomine has been found before 1188. The honor of Bramber was considered to be virtually coterminous with the rape, except in the early 13th century, when an honor or bailiwick of Knepp ,presumably corresponding to the northern part of the rape, was mentioned as well. Some lands outside Sussex were held of the honor, in Surrey, Wiltshire, and Dorset. It is not clear whether the rape was a true barony. It was, however, called a barony from 1218 or earlier, and in 1307 it was stated that baronial relief had regularly been paid in the past. William de Braose was succeeded between 1093 and 1096 by his son Philip, between 1134 and 1155 by his son William (d. c. 1192), whose son William lost his lands through confiscation in 1208 and died in 1211. Between 1210 and 1215 Roland Bloet had the keeping of the rape. William's second son, Giles, bishop of Hereford, received the rape in 1215 but died later that year.In the following year it was restored to Giles's younger brother Reynold. Reynold surrendered it in 1218 to his son William and in 1219 was sued for dower in Bramber by Maud de Clare, apparently his father's widow. In 1226 Reynold and William sold the rape to John de Braose, who had claimed it in 1219-20. He was son of William (d. 1210 or 1211). After John's death in 1232 dower was assigned in 1234 to his widow Margaret, then wife of Walter de Clifford. From 1235 to at least 1242 the rape was in the keeping of Richard, earl of Cornwall. John's son William, Lord Braose, who had come of age by 1245, was succeeded in 1290 by his son William (d. 1326). In 1316 the last William de Braose settled the reversion of the lordship of Bramber on John de Mowbray (d. 1322) and his wife Aline, one of William's daughters and heirs. In 1324 William granted his life-estate in Bramber to the Crown in return for a pension and in the same year Aline granted her reversionary interest to Hugh le Despenser, earl of Winchester, a grant which having been made under duress was later annulled. Aline was confirmed in her estates in 1328 and she and her second husband Richard de Peshale were confirmed in the lordship in 1331, the year of Aline's death. Aline's son and heir, John de Mowbray, Lord Mowbray was lord of the rape apparently in 1332 and certainly in 1333.

"THE PRIORY OF SELE William de Braose, soon after he had obtained his extensive fief in Sussex, appears to have built the church of St. Nicholas at Bramber as a chapel to his castle, and to have founded there a small college of secular canons, under a dean. In 1073 he endowed this college with the church of Beeding and the tithes of a large extent of his lands in Shoreham, Southwick, Washington, Findon, Thakeham and the neighborhood. William appears also to have claimed the right of burial for his church, but about 1086 the abbey of Fécamp successfully contested this claim, and Herbert the dean (of Bramber) had to restore the bodies buried at

William married de Boissey, Eve in 1073 in Briouze, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France. Eve was born in 1038 in Boissey, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There are charters where Robert de Harcourt's sons, Philip and Richard, refer to Philip de Braose as "patruus" - paternal uncle. This lends weight to the theory that Robert de Harcourt and Philip de Braose were both sons of Eve de Boissey. In another record dated 1103 (Pipe Roll Soc. Vol 71 no 544) it is stated that Philip de Braose was represented by "his brother Robert, the son of Anketill". SOURCE Braose Family Web Online

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Barnstaple, Devon, England; 1st Lord of Barnstaple
• FSID: LY6D-VDY
• Residence: Totnes, Devon, England
• Residence: Barnstaple, Devon, England

Notes:

Also known as :Johel DeTotenais , Judhael de Totnes 1st Lord Barnstaple

Juhel de Totnes
Juhel de Totnes (died 1123/30) (alias Juhel fitz Alfred, Juhel de Mayenne,
[1] Judel, Judhel, Judael,
Judhael, Joel, Judhel de Totenais), Latinised to Judhellus filius Aluredi, "Juhel son of Alured") was a
soldier and supporter of William the Conqueror (1066-1087). He was the first Anglo-Norman feudal
baron of Totnes and feudal baron of Barnstaple, both in Devon.
Origins
Career
Progeny
Death
References
Further reading
He originated either in Brittany or in Mayenne, in the Pays de la Loire/Maine, as his surname of de
Mayenne given in an early charter suggests. He was the son of a certain Alfred, Latinised to Aluredus,
[2]
expressed in Anglo-Norman French as fitz Alfred (i.e. Latin filius, modern French fils de, "son of"). He
had a brother named Robert (Latin: Rotbertus) named in the foundation charter of Totnes Priory, c. 1087.
In 1069 Juhel was one of the leaders of the Breton forces on the Norman side, fighting against the
remaining forces that had been loyal to King Harold.
[3] He had been granted by William the Conqueror
the feudal barony of Totnes, Devon, and held many manors in south-west England, at the time of the
Domesday Book of 1086, including Clawton, Broadwood Kelly, Bridford and Cornworthy.
[4][5][6][7]
In
about 1087, he founded Totnes Priory. He was expelled from the barony of Totnes shortly after the death
of King William I in 1087. According to the historian Frank Barlow (1983), King William II "replaced
the Breton Judhel, whom he expelled from Totnes at the beginning of his reign for an unknown reason,
with his favourite, Roger I of Nonant".[8] However at some time before 1100 Juhel was granted the large
feudal barony of Barnstaple, Devon.[9]
Juhel had two daughters and a son named Alfred, the latter who died without progeny before 1139.[10]
Alfred's two sisters, one of whose name is unknown and Aenor, were his co-heiresses, each inheriting a
moiety of the barony of Barnstaple. The unnamed sister married Henry de Tracy[11]
whilst Aenor married
Philip de Braose (d. 1134/55), feudal baron of Bramber, Sussex and a Marcher Lord.,
[12]
son of William I
de Braose (d. 1093/6). In 1206 Juhel's great-grandson William III de Braose (1140/50-1211) regained
control of 1/2 the barony of Totnes.[13]
Contents
Origins
Career
Progeny
Juhel was still living in 1123 but had died before 1130.[14]
John Bryan Williams, "Judhael of Totnes: The Life and Times of a Post-Conquest Baron",
Anglo-Norman Studies; 16 (1993) pp. 271–289
1. Monasticon, iv, p. 630; v, p. 198; Regesta, ii, no. 1391 (quoted by Sanders, p. 89)
2. Aluredus (nominative case), Aluredi (genitive)
3. E. M. R. Ditmas, "Reappraisal of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Allusions to Cornwall", Speculum,
Vol. 48, No. 3 (Jul., 1973), pp. 510-524.
4. "British History Online : Parishes : Parishes : Cadbury - Clawton" (http://www.british-history.
ac.uk/magna-britannia/vol6/pp92-102). British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
5. "British History Online : Parishes : Bridestowe - Butterleigh" (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
report.asp?compid=50570). British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
6. "British History Online : Parishes : Parishes : Bickton - Bridford" (http://www.british-history.a
c.uk/report.asp?compid=50569). British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
7. "British History Online : Parishes : Parishes : Colyton - Culmstock" (http://www.british-histor
y.ac.uk/magna-britannia/vol6/pp129-151). British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
8. Barlow, F., William Rufus (1983), p. 171.
9. Sanders, I. J., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p. 104, Barnstaple
10. Sanders, I. J., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p. 104, Barnstaple
11. https://www.archive.org/stream/conquerorhiscomp02planuoft/conquerorhiscomp02planuoft_dj
Excerpt: TRACIE, "Sire de," 1. 13,605. The Norman family of Tracy does not appear to have
been of much importance in England before the reign of Stephen, who bestowed upon
Henry de Tracy the honour of Benstable (Barnstaple) in Devonshire ; but the first of the
name we hear of is Turgis, or Turgisins de Tracy, who with William de la Ferte was defeated
and driven out of Maine by Fulk le Rechin, Count of Anjou, in 1073, and who was therefore
in all probability the Sire de Tracy in the army at Hastings. Tracy is in the neighbourhood of
Vire, arrondissement of Caen, and the ruins of a magnificent castle of the middle ages were
and may still be seen there. In 1082 a charter was subscribed at Tracy by a William de Traci
and his nephew Gilbert (Gallia Christina, xi. Instrum. p. 107), one or the other being most
likely the son of Turgis, and the father of Henry of Barnstaple. The name of Tracy- is
principally known to the readers of English history from the unenviable notoriety of a William
de Tracy, one of the cowardly murderers of Thomas & Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury,
A.D. 1170 ; but his connection with the inain line is obscure, as in his charter granting to the
Canons of Torre, in the county of Devon, all his lands at North Chillingford, he writes himself
William de Traci, son of Gervase de Courtenay, whose name I do not find in the pedigree of
that house. Publication: THE CONQUEROR AND HIS COMPANIONS. Author: James
Robinson Planché, Somerset Herald. Publisher: Tinsley Brothers, 8, CATHERINE STREET,
STRAND, LONDON. Year: 1874.
12. Cokayne, George E (1910), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great
Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, I, London: St Catherine Press,
p. 21
13. Sanders, I. J., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, pp. 89-90, Tot

Judeal married de Picquigny, Bertha in 1074 in Bramber, Sussex, England. Bertha (daughter of de Picquigny, Eustache and de Pecguigny, Adele) was born in 1054 in Barnstaple, Devon, England; died in 1145 in Barnstaple, Devon, England; was buried in 1145 in Saint Peter's Church, Barnstaple, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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