de Braose, William VII 1 2a 3 4a 5a

Birth Name de Braose, William VII
Gender male
Age at Death 71 years, 4 months

Narrative

William had already taken on many of the duties of the lordship from his father when the inheritance was granted to him by the king on March 1, 1291. Their favourite residence in Gower was Oystermouth castle.
True to his father's tradition, young William had law suits that had been rumbling on for years. In 1299 the Bishop of Llandaff succeeded in a plea to the king, who ordered William to answer for his misdeeds before the court and the royal justices. In 1306 William's tenants in Gower sought justice from the king, having taken the drastic step of deserting their lands. They accused their lord of failing to protect them and their rights. His neglect and mismanagement had disgraced the marcher lordships. William was forced to issue charters of rights for the burgesses of Swansea and his tenants in Gower.

William and his first wife, known only from surviving records as Agnes, had a son William. This son, the de Braose heir, died in 1320. William married his second wife, the heiress Elizabeth de Sully, in 1317 but she remained childless. William's oldest daughter Joan married James de Bohun of Midhurst in about 1295, but she too died before her father in 1323.

William died in 1326, ironically the year the Despensers were executed. The king was deposed the following January. Alina married Richard de Peshale, whom she met when they were prisoners together in the Tower, and together they held Gower until her death in 1331. Bramber passed to her son John de Mowbray.
(http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/William7.htm)

 

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1255 Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales   6
Death 1326-05-01 Bramber, Sussex and Gower, Wales   6

Age: 71y

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father de Braose, William VI1224-07-151291-01-06
Mother of Multon, Alina1240
         de Braose, William VII 1255 1326-05-01

Families

Family of de Braose, William VII and of Sully, Elizabeth
Married Wife of Sully, Elizabeth ( * 1263 + 1328-08-24 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage 1317     1
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
de Braose, Joan1284
de Braose, Aline12861331-07-20

Family of de Braose, William VII and de Bavant, Eleanor
Unknown Partner de Bavant, Eleanor ( * 1298 + ... )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
de Braiose, William VIII1318
de Braiose, Peter13201373

Source References

  1. RCKarnes: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I21806&style=TABLE Carrie's Family Tree
  2. RCKarnes: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I27197 Carrie's Family Tree
      • Source text:

        ID: I27197
        Name: *William DE BRAOSE
        Sex: M
        Birth: 1261 1
        Death: 1326 1
        Occupation: Lord of Bramber and Gower 1
        Note:
        William had already taken on many of the duties of the lordship from his father when the inheritance was granted to him by the king on March 1, 1291. Their favourite residence in Gower was Oystermouth castle.
        True to his father's tradition, young William had law suits that had been rumbling on for years. In 1299 the Bishop of Llandaff succeeded in a plea to the king, who ordered William to answer for his misdeeds before the court and the royal justices. In 1306 William's tenants in Gower sought justice from the king, having taken the drastic step of deserting their lands. They accused their lord of failing to protect them and their rights. His neglect and mismanagement had disgraced the marcher lordships. William was forced to issue charters of rights for the burgesses of Swansea and his tenants in Gower.

        William and his first wife, known only from surviving records as Agnes, had a son William. This son, the de Braose heir, died in 1320.
        William married his second wife, the heiress Elizabeth de Sully, in 1317 but she remained childless. William's oldest daughter Joan married James de Bohun of Midhurst in about 1295, but she too died before her father in 1323.

        William died in 1326, ironically the year the Despensers were executed. The king was deposed the following January. Alina married Richard de Peshale, whom she met when they were prisoners together in the Tower, and together they held Gower until her death in 1331. Bramber passed to her son John de Mowbray.
        (http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/William7.htm)

         

        Father: *William DE BRAOSE b: 1220 in Bramber, Sussex, England
        Mother: *Alina of MULTON b: ABT 1240 in Gilsland, Irthington, Cumberland, England

        Marriage 1 Elizabeth of SULLY b: 1263 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales
        Married: 1317 1
        Children
        *Aline DE BRAOSE b: ABT 1286 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales

        Sources:
        Title: http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/William7.htm

         

      • Citation:

        arciek@juno.com

  3. http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/William7.htm
  4. Holly Forrest Tamer: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stolp&id=I875 Stolp Line
      • Source text:

        ID: I875
        Name: @*William de Braose
        Sex: M
        Birth: 1255 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales
        Death: BEF 1 MAY 1326 in Bramber, Sussex, England & Gower, Wales
        Note:
        William de Braose, in the 22nd of Edward I [1293], had summons to attend the king with other great men to advise regarding the important affairs of the realm. And about the beginning of the ensuing September, he was one of those who embarked at
        Portsmouth with horse and arms in the king's service for Gascony. In the 28th and 29th of the same reign,he was in the wars of Scotland, and in the latter year he had summons to parliament as a baron. In the 32nd [1304], he was again in the
        Scottish wars and then enjoyed so much favour that the king not only confirmed to him and his heirs the grant of Gower Land, made by King john to his ancestor, but granted that he and they should thenceforth enjoy all regal jurisdiction,
        liberties, and privileges there in as ample a manner as Gilder de Clare, son of Richard de Clare, sometimes Earl of Gloucester, had in all his lands of Glamorgan. For several years afterwards, his lordship appears to have been constantly
        engaged upon the same theatre of war and was always eminently distinguished. In the 14th Edward II [1321], according to Thomas of Walsingham, being "a person who had a large patrimony but a great unthrift," his lordship put up for sale his
        noble territory of Gower Land, and absolutely sold it under the king's license to the Earl of Hereford; but its contiguity to the lands of the younger Spencer (who was then high in royal favour, and the king's chamberlain), attracting the
        attention of that minion, he forcibly possessed himself of the estate and thus gave rise to the insurrection headed by Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster. Lord Braose m. Aliva, dau. of Thomas de Moulton, and had issue, Aliva, m. 1st, to John
        de Mowbray, and 2ndly, to Sir Richard de Pershall, and Joan, m. to John* de Bohun, of Midhurst. His lordship, who had regular summons to parliament to 18 September, 1322, d. in that year, when the Barony of Braose, of Gower, fell into abeyance
        between his daus. and co-heirs, and it so continues with their representatives. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, pp. 72-73, Braose, Barons Braose, of Gower]
        Note:
        Note: * The Bohun entry on pg. 58 in the same source cited above, states it was James de Bohun, younger brother of John de Bohun, who d. s. p., that Joan married.
        Note:
        Note: Title: Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
        Note: Page: 63-4, 122a-4
        Note: Text: 63-4 indicates a William de Braose father of Aline (wife of John de Mowbray). 122a-4 indicates father-in-law of John de Mowbray, and son of William by Aline de Multon.
        Note: Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
        Note: Page: 2026
        Note: Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
        Note: Page: VI:353
        Change Date: 5 OCT 2006

        Father: @*William de Braose b: BEF 15 JUL 1224 in Bamber,Sussex,England
        Mother: @*Aline de Multon b: ABT 1240 in Gilsland, Irthington, Cumberland, England

        Marriage 1 @*Elizabeth de Sully b: 1263 in Sully, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales
        Children
        @*Joan de Braose b: 1284 in Gower,Glamorganshire,Wales
        @Aline de Braose b: ABT 1286 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales

         

      • Citation:

        holly_tamer@yahoo.com

  5. Michael Neuman: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=michaelrneuman&id=I002746 Neuman-Smith-Goodale Family and Ancestors
      • Source text:

        ID: I002746
        Name: Sir William VII de Braiose 1 2 3
        Sex: M
        Birth: ABT 1285 in Bramber Castle, Sussex, England 1 2
        Birth: ABT 1285 in Bramber, Sussex, England 3
        Death: 1360

        Father: William VI de Braiose b: ABT 1255 in Bramber Castle, Sussex, England
        Mother: Aline de Multon b: ABT 1257 in Egremont, Cumberland, England

        Marriage 1 Elizabeth de Sully b: 1287 in Sully, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales
        Children
        Joan de Braiose b: ABT 1310 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales
        Alice de Braiose b: ABT 1305 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales

        Marriage 2 Eleanor de Bavant b: ABT 1298 in Wiston, Sussex, England
        Children
        Sir Peter de Braiose b: ABT 1320 in Bramber Castle, Sussex, England
        William VIII de Braiose b: ABT 1318 in Bramber Castle, Sussex, England

        Sources:
        Title: CALDWELL.FTW
        Repository:
        Media: Other
        Text: Date of Import: Mar 23, 2002
        Title: CALDWELL.GED
        Repository:
        Media: Other
        Text: Date of Import: Mar 23, 2002
        Title: Emma de Clare.ged
        Repository:
        Media: Other
        Text: Date of Import: 26 Feb 2005

         

      • Citation:

        Descendants and ancestors of George Smith and Eva Goodale

        michaelneuman@earthlink.net

  6. Holly Forrest Tamer: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=stolp&id=I625&style=TABLE Stolp Line