Maud de St. Valéry Lady of la Haie

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 63A:28 - as mother of William de Braose who married Isabella or Matilda de Clare, 70:29 - as mother of Margaret de Braose who married Walter de Lacy, 177:6 - married to William de Braose & was starved to death by King John. ¹⁶⁰

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition,(Abergavenny), Vol. I, p. 22, Lord of Brioze, Bramber, Brecon, Over Gwent, and other places, m. Maud de St. Valery, "Lady of La Haie." due to conflict with King John, his lands were forfeited in 1208, ahd his wife and eldest son starved to death in the dungeons of Corfe of Windsor in 1210. ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Maud de St. Valery. ^171,220
Due to Matilda's long defencs of Pain's Castle while being besieged by the Welsh, the castle became known as "Matilda's Castle."

The downfall of her family may have something to do with her reply to King John's request for her son William as a hostage in 1208. She hastly refused because she was angry at King John for murdering his nephew Arthur, whom she felt he should have protected.

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Mthilde de Saint-Valéry.
"Willelmus de Braosa dominus de Brechen" donated property to Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, for the souls of "uxoris meæ Matildis de Sancto Walerico et puerorum nostrorum", by undated charter, witnessed by "Willelmo et Philippo filiis meis" [Crawley-Boevey, A. W. (ed.) (1887) The Cartulary and Historical Notes of the Cistercian Abbey of Flaxley otherwise called Dene Abbey in the county of Gloucester (Exeter) ("Flaxley (Dene)") 8, p. 134]. The Annals of Waverley record that "Matildis matrona nobilis cognomento de la Haie, uxor Willelmi de Braose" was captured with "Willelmo filio suo milite…in Galwaitha" in 1210 and starved to death "apud Windeshores" [Annales de Waverleia, p. 265]. Matthew Paris records that "uxorem Willelmi de Brause et Willelmum filium eius cum uxore sua" were captured in 1210 at the siege of Meath, but escaped, were captured again "in insula de May", and imprisoned at Windsor, in a later passage recording that all four died "apud Windleshores"[MP, Vol. II, 1210, pp. 530-].

Maud married William de Braose Lord Brecknock, Baron of Braiose, son of William de Braose Baron Bramber. Lord Brecknock, Abergavenny and Bertha of Hereford.¹³⁰ (William de Braose Lord Brecknock, Baron of Braiose was born about 1144 in Bramber, Sussex, England, died in 1212 in Corbeil, France ^141,737 and was buried in 1212 in Abbey of St. Victor, Parish, France ^141,737.)