Maud de Braose
Maud de St Valery (also Matilda de St Valery and Maud de Braose ) (* 1153/55, † 1210) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. She was also known as Matilda of Hay or under its Welsh name Moll Walbee.
Origin and family
Maud was the daughter of the Anglo-Norman nobles Bernard de St. Valery († 1190 ) and his wife Eleanor of Hinton Waldrist in Berkshire. Probably in the 1170s, she married William de Braose, the eldest son and heir to his father William de Braose same name. The couple is said to have had a total of 16 children, including:
- Maud or Matilda (1172-1210) Gruffydd ap Rhys ∞
- William de Braose (1175-1210) ∞ Maud de Clare († 1213), daughter of Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford
- Giles de Braose ( probably * 1176, † November 11, 1215 ), Bishop of Hereford, 5th Baron of Bramber
- Margaret (* 1177, † after 1255 ); ∞ Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath (around 1171-1241 )
- Reginald de Braose (* 1178, † June 9, 1228 ), 6th Baron of Bramber
- Loretta (c. 1185 † around 1266 ); ∞ Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester († 1204)
- Annora (* 1190, † 1241 ) ∞ Hugh de Mortimer († 1227 )
- Flandrina, 1242 Abbess of Godstow, deposed in 1248
Life
The Welsh chronicler Giraldus Cambrensis describes it as a wise and virtuous woman, but she was a power-conscious woman who fought confidently for their rights. Through the legacy of his father and grandfathers as well as by the favor of kings Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland her husband had risen to become the most powerful baron of the Welsh Marches. His conquered lands in Wales, he had to constantly defend against rebellions and attacks by the Welsh, has said he supports his wife energetically. Your stubborn defense of the Castle of Pain Castle in Powys in 1198 brought the castle the nickname " Matilda 's Castle " a.
1207 her husband lost the favor of King John because he had been paid by the pledged for the investiture of Limerick sum of 5000 marks, 700 marks to the king. When her son Giles, Bishop of Hereford, 1208 went into exile in France because of the interdict against England, the king suspected the family of the conspiracy. He urged Maud her eldest son William to provide hostage. Your arrogant response to this request presumably led to the complete overthrow of their family. You should have mentioned in the presence of the royal messengers that they entrust their son any man who would have killed his own nephew itself, an allusion to the fate of John's nephew, Arthur, at the disappearing her husband had been thought to be involved. The possessions of the Braose were subsequently seized by the king and her husband began an open rebellion in Wales. Finally, he fled with his wife, his son William and his family to Ireland. When Johann persecuted them even in Ireland, Maud fled with her son and his family to Scotland. In Galloway they were captured by Duncan of Carrick and extradited to Carrickfergus to Johann. The king demanded for her and her son a ransom amounting to 40,000 marks, but her husband could not afford this enormous sum and fled into exile in France, where he died the following year. Maud and her son William died in the dungeons of Windsor or Corfe Castle, angelblich was Johann starve together.
Maud de Braose in the saga
The Welshman said after her supernatural properties. So they should have the castle of Hay-on -Wye in just one night built by hand and the stones are transported to the castle in her apron. When she fell out a stone, they should have thrown in and taken to the cemetery five kilometers away from St Meilig 's at Llowes. The three -meter high stone, the St Meilig 's Cross, is still in the church.
Maud de Braose in the literature
Her life was the inspiration for the novel The Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine, next to her fate plays a role in numerous other novels as The Scarlet Lion and The English by Elizabeth Chadwick or rebel, the fourth king of Sylvie von Frankenberg.