Second Generation  

2. 1st Lord William de BRAOSE of Bramber [123049] (de Brix (Seigneur)¹) was born about 1049 in Briouze Orne Normandy France and died about 11 Dec 1095 in Bramber Sussex England aged about 46.

General Notes: Wikipedia says of William,
William de Braose (or William de Briouze), First Lord of Bramber (died 1093/1096) was previously lord of Briouze, Normandy. He was granted lands in England by William the Conqueror soon after he and his followers had invaded and controlled Saxon England.
Braose had been given extensive lands in Sussex[1] by 1073. He became feudal baron of the Rape of Bramber[2] where he built Bramber Castle. Braose was also awarded lands around Wareham and Corfe in Dorset, two manors in Surrey, Southcote in Berkshire and Downton in Wiltshire[1] and became one of the most powerful of the new feudal barons of the early Norman era.

He continued to bear arms alongside King William in campaigns in England, Normandy and Maine in France.

He was a pious man and made considerable grants to the Abbey of Saint Florent, in Saumur, and endowed the foundation of priories at Sele near Bramber and at Briouze.

He was soon occupying a new Norman castle at Bramber, guarding the strategically important harbour at Steyning, and began a vigorous boundary dispute and power struggle with the monks of Fécamp Abbey in Normandy, to whom William the Conqueror had granted Steyning, brought to a head by the Domesday Book, completed in 1086.

William married Countess Agnes de SAINT-CLAIR [123050]. Agnes was born about 1054 in St Clair-sur-Elle Manche Normandy France and died between 1080 and 1100 in Bramber Sussex England.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 3    i. 2nd Lord Philip de BRAOSE of Bramber [123040] was born in 1073 in Bramber Sussex England and died in May 1134 in Palestine at age 61.

   4    ii. Matilda de BRAOSE [123051] was born in 1077 in Bramber Castle Sussex England and died in 1171 at age 94.