Let’s take a look at Matilda de Braose and her family …


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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Richard I being anointed during his coronation in Westminster Abbey in 1189, from the chronicle of Matthew Paris (13th century). Chetham MS Ms 6712 (A.6.89), fol.141r.

Depiction of Hay Castle by John George Wood (1816). Held by the National Library of Wales.

King John hunting a stag with hounds in the Statutes of England (14th century). Held by the British Library Cotton Claudius D. II, f.116.

Arthur of Brittany as portrayed in a genealogical roll in the British Library (13th century).

Detail from "The Pope Innocent III" fresco mid 13th century Monastery of Sacro Speco of Saint Benedict Subiaco (Rome). Photographed by Carlo Raso (2016).

Depiction of the Bristol castle in James Millerd's 1728 map of Bristol (demolished 1656). Image is the same as in the 1673 version of the map. Detail from the 1728 updated edition of James Millerd's map An Exact Delineation of the Famous Citty of Bristoll and Suburbs, first published in 1673. Digitisation undertaken by the Bristol Record Society of an engraving owned by the Society of Merchant Venturers, Bristol.

Ruins of Corfe Castle photographed by me (3rd September 2023).

Quoted texts:

Ralph V. Turner, ODNB entry on William de Braose.

Annals of Margam, 13th century.

Magna Carta (1215).

Also consulted, were:

Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth Century England by Sharon Bennet Connolly (2020).

Magna Carta by David Carpenter (2015).

"Triumph and disaster: King John’s victory at Mirebeau, 1 August 1202" by David Balfour in Medieval Warfare, Vol. 1, No. 1, IN THIS ISSUE: The War of Bouvines: Rise of France (2011), pp. 1015 (6 pages).

Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Vincent (2012).

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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