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William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber

c. 1144–1211 · 12th century

William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, was a powerful Anglo-Norman marcher lord in Wales who held Brecknock through his mother and received Gower from King John in 1203. Notorious for the massacre of Welsh chiefs at Abergavenny in 1175, he later fell from John's favour and died in exile in France.

William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber
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