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Birth:          ABT 1198 of Bramber, Sussex, England
Death:          18 Jul 1232 Bramber, Sussex, England
Cause of Death: fall from horse

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Braose
John de Braose (born 1197 or 1198 – 18 July 1232), known as Tadody to the Welsh, 
was the Lord of Bramber and Gower.
Re-establishment of the de Braose dynasty[edit]

John re-established the senior branch of the de Braose dynasty.

His father was William de Braose, eldest son of William de Braose, 4th Lord of 
Bramber and Maud de St. Valery, and his mother was Maud de Clare, (born ca. 1184) 
daughter of Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford of Tonbridge Castle in Kent. John 
was their eldest son and one of four brothers, the others being Giles, Phillip and 
Walter de Braose.

Royal threat[edit]

His grandfather had had his lands seized and his grandmother Maud de St. Valery had 
been captured by forces of King John of England in 1210. She was imprisoned, along 
with John's father William, in Corfe Castle and walled alive inside the dungeon. Both 
mother and son starved to death on the King's orders. This was probably due to John's 
grandfather's conflict with the monarch, open rebellion and subsequent alliance with 
Llewelyn the Great. John's nickname Tadody means "fatherless" in the Welsh.

Hiding and imprisonment[edit]

At his family's fall from Royal favour John de Braose was initially hidden on Gower and 
spent some time in the care of his uncle Giles de Braose, Bishop of Hereford, but 
finally in 1214 John and his younger brother Philip were taken into custody. They were 
imprisoned until after King John had died (in 1216), the throne passing to Henry III. 
John was released from custody in 1218.

Welsh intermarriage[edit]

In 1219 he married Margaret Ferch Llywelyn, (born about 1202 in the Kingdom of 
Gwynedd), daughter of the leader of Wales Llywelyn Fawr and his English wife Joan 
Plantagenet also known as Joan, Lady of Wales, and he received the Lordship of 
Gower as her dowry with Llywelyn's blessing.

In 1226 another surviving uncle Reginald de Braose sold him the honour of Bramber, 
and he inherited more lands and titles when this uncle died a few years later in 1228. 
Sometime in the 1220s, he established the deer park, Parc le Breos in the Gower 
Peninsula.

He and Margaret, his Welsh wife, had three sons, his heir, William de Braose the 
eldest son, John and Richard (born about 1225 in Stinton, Norfolk) the youngest, 
(buried in Woodbridge Priory, Suffolk) having died before June 1292.

Death and legacy[edit]

In 1232 John was killed in a fall from his horse on his land in Bramber, Sussex at 34 
years of age. His widow soon remarried to Walter III de Clifford. William de Braose 
(born about 1224; died 1291 in Findon, Sussex), his eldest son, succeeded him in the 
title of Lord of Bramber. John the younger son became Lord of the manor of Corsham 
in Wiltshire and also later Lord of Glasbury on Wye.

William de Braose (c.1224–1291) also had a son named William de Braose who died 
"shortly before 1st May 1326".[1]

Another William de Braose who became Bishop of Llandaff cannot be placed with 
certainty in this branch of the family.

The de Braose name modified to de Brewes in the Middle Ages 1200 to 1400.

Parents
DE BRAOSE William (ABT 1175 - 1210)
DE CLARE Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1177 - 1213)

Siblings
DE BRAOSE Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1196 - BEF 1274)
DE BRAOSE John (ABT 1198 - 18 Jul 1232)

Marriage To VERCH LLYWELYN Margaret (ABT 1210 - AFT 1263)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
AP IORWERTH Llewelyn (1173 - 11 Apr 1240)
____ Joan (ABT 1188 - 2 Feb 1237)

Children by VERCH LLYWELYN Margaret ABT 1210 - AFT 1263
DE BRAOSE William (1224 - 6 Jan 1290)
DE BRAOSE Richard (BEF 1232 - BEF 18 Jun 1292)

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