Guillaume de Braose 1st Lord of Bramber
- Born: Abt 1049, Brieuze Castle, Falaise, Calvados, France
- Marriage: Agnès de St. Clare 722,726
- Died: 1093-1096, Bramber, Sussex, England about age 44
 Another name for Guillaume was Guillaume de Brieuze.
Information about this person:
• Dates & Events. 171
William is recorded in lists of those present at the Battle of Hastings. He fought along side William the Conqueror in the campaigns in Britain, Normandy and Maine. He became the first Lord of Bramer by 1073 and built Bramber Castle.
• Background Information. 737
William de Braose came to England with William the Conqueror. At the time of the Domesday survey, he hald estates in the counties of the Bers, Wits, Surrey, Dorset and Sussex. He was succeeded by his son Phillip de Braose, whose son, William sucdeeded Phillip.
~Burke's A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, pg. 72
• Background Information. 722
William de Braose, a campanion of William the Conqueror, and his second wife, Agnes, daughter of Waldron de St. Clare, were parents of Pillip de Braose. William was described as lord of the honor of Braose, or Brieuze, a castle situated within two leagues of Falaise in the department of Calvados.
~The Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, pg. 39
Guillaume married Agnès de St. Clare, daughter of Waldron de St. Clare and Unknown 722.
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