William de Braose 3rd Baron Bramber. Lord Brecknock, Abergavenny

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots. . . , 177:5, 194:5 ¹⁶⁰

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition,(Abergavenny), Vol. I, pp. 21, 22, William de Broase, Lord of Briouze in Normandy, and Bramber, Sussex, son and heir of Phillip by Aenor, daughter and heir of Jushel son of Alvred, Lord of Barnstaple and Totnes, m. Bertha, 2nd sister and coheir of William of Hereford. Sheriff of Herefordshire, Easter 1173-1175. He was alive in 1179. ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷³⁷
William de Braose was the son of Phillip de Braose. He married Berta, daughter of Milo de Gloucester, Earl of Hereford, and coheir of her brother, William, Earl of Hereford, by whom he acquired Brecknock, with other extensive territorial possessions. He had two sons, William and Reginald, and was succeeded by his eldest son, William.
~Burke's A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, pg. 72

• Background Information. ⁸⁴⁶
William de Braose, feudal Lord of Bramber, Sussex was married to Bertha, daughter of Miles, Earl of Hereford, second sister and coheir of Roger, the second Earl of Hereford, and of Henry Fitz Miles, feudal Lord of Bergavenny. With her he obtained the Bordship of Brecknock and also the right to the lands of Overwent, containing the castle of Abergavenny.
~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, 1887, Vol. I, pg. 12

• Children. ⁷²²
• William, d. Corbeil, 9 Aug 1211, bur. Abbey of St. Victor, Paris, m. Maud de St. Valerie, d. 1210
• Phillip, settled in Ireland
• Gilian
• Maud, m. John de Brompton
• Sybil, m. 1st, Willim de Ferrières, 3rd Earl of Derby, who d. Acre, Palestine, 1190, before 21 Oct, while on a crusade; m. 2nd, Adam de Port of Basing
• Bertha, m. William I de Beauchamp
• Isabel, m. her cousin Peter Fitz Herbert, son of her mother's sister Lucy

~The Medieval Ancestors of Certain Americans, pg. 40

• Background Information. ⁷²⁶
William de Braose was Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1174-1175, He gave 1000 marks of silver for part of the honor of Barnstaple, his right from his grandfather Johel de Totenais, and 10 Henry II, 1164, he was one of the subscribers to the Constitution of Claredon. He married Bertha, second daughter and eventually co-heiress of Milo de Gloucester, Lord of Brecknok, created Earl of Hereford by the Empress Matilda, 25 Jul 1140. Milo was sometimes called FitzWalter, being the son of Walter "Constabularius princeps militiae domus regiae," who built the castle of Gloucester on his own domain. In 34 Henry I, Milo was Sheriff of Staffordshire and Gloucestershire and also Justice Itinerant for these counties. His mother was sister of Hameline de Balun, a companion of the Conqueror. William and his wife Bertha had two daughters, Bertha, who married Walter de Beauchamp and Sibilla who married Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby
~Fenwick Allied Ancestry, "pedigree 105," p. 136-137

William married Bertha de Pîtres, daughter of Mile de Pîtres 1st Earl of Hereford, and Constable of England and Sibyl de Neufmarché.⁸⁴⁶ (Bertha de Pîtres was born about 1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.)