Matilda de Briouze

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 29 December 1210.

This date is given by Lloyd (2:618). The death is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1209.

Place of Death: Llanbadarn Fawr.

The place is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1209.

Date of Burial: Strata Florida.

The burial is recorded in Brut y Tywysogion s.a. 1209.

Relationships

Father: William de Briouze (died 4 September 1211).

This relationship is given by Turner (ODNB) and by Bridgeman (p. 78). It can be inferred from Annales Cambriæ (s.a. 1189), which refers to William de Briouze as the father-in-law of Gruffudd ap Rhys.

Mother: Matilda de St Valéry (died 1210).

This relationship is given by Turner (ODNB).

Spouse: Gruffudd ap Rhys (died 25 July 1201). Married by 1189.

This relationship is given by Turner (ODNB) and and shown by Bartrum (EVWG “Rhys ap Tewdwr 6”). Brut y Tywysogion (s.a. 1209) refers to “Mahallt y Brewys mam meibon Gruffudd uab Rys” (Mahalt de Bruse, the mother of the sons of Gruffudd, son of Rhys). Annales Cambriæ (s.a. 1189) refers to William de Briouze as the father-in-law of Gruffudd ap Rhys.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most of the information below comes from Bartrum.)

Rhys Ieuanc (died 1222).

Owain (died 1235) married a daughter of Gwion Sais.

References

Bartrum, Peter C.,“Rhys ap Tewdwr 6” in An Electronic Version of Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1500.

Bridgeman, George T.O. History of the Princes of South Wales (Wigan: Thomas Birch, 1876).

Lloyd, John Edward, A History of Wales. 2 volumes (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911-1912).

Smith, J.B. “Gruffudd ap Rhys” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Turner, Ralph V. “Briouze, William (III) de (d. 1211)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Annales Cambriæ (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).

Williams ab Ithel, John (ed.). Brut y Tywysogion; or, The Chronicle of the Princes (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; 1860).