William de Braose

Also known as: William de Breuse / lord William de Breuse · Family: England · Role: lord · First appears: King John 13

Life events

1208 · William de Braose fled England with his wife and children to safeguard their lives.(King John 13 · 📍 Ireland)
- With: King John
- “These words being signified vnto the king, set him in such an heat against hir husband (though he rebuked hir sharpelie for the same) that the said lord was glad togither with his wife and children to flée out of the realme into Ireland for safegard of their liues.”
1210 · William de Braose escaped captivity and fled to France.(King John 15 · 📍 France)
- “William the father escaped, and got away into France.”
c. 1211 · William de Braose the elder died at Corbell and was buried in Paris.(King John 16 · 📍 Corbell)
- “Shortlie after this also, died William de Breuse the elder, which fled from the face of king John out of Ireland into France, and departing this life at Corbell, was buried at Paris in the abbeie of S. Victor.”

enemies with King John “These words being signified vnto the king, set him in such an heat against hir husband (though he rebuked hir sharpelie for the same) that the said lord was glad togither with his wife and children to flée out of the realme into Ireland for safegard of their liues.”

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.”
child: William de Braose (son) (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”

enemies with King John “Shortlie after this also, died William de Breuse the elder, which fled from the face of king John out of Ireland into France, and departing this life at Corbell, was buried at Paris in the abbeie of S. Victor.”

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