William de Braose (son)

Family: noble · Role: son of William de Braose · First appears: King John 15

Life events

1210 · William de Braose (son) was reportedly found dead from starvation in confinement at Windsor.(King John 15 · 📍 Windsor)
- “Touching the death of the said ladie, he saith, that within eleuen daies after she was committed to prison héere in England, she was found dead, sitting betwixt hir sonnes legs, who likewise being dead, sate directlie vp against a wall of the chamber, wherein they were kept with hard pitance (as writers doo report.)”

enemies with King John “At length, comming into the countrie of Meth, he besieged a castell, wherein the wife of William de Breuse, and hir sonne named also William were inclosed, but they found means to escape before the castell was woone, though afterward they were taken in the Ile of Man, and sent by the king into England, where they were so straitlie kept within the castell of Windsor, that (as the fame went) they were famished to death.”
parent: William de Braose (The son is identified through the wife of William de Breuse.) “the wife of William de Breuse, and hir sonne named also William were inclosed”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.