Matilda de St Valéry

Events

Place of Birth: France.

The place is given in the Histoire des Ducs de Normandie (p. 111).

Date of Death: 1210.

The date is given by Turner (ODNB).

Place of Death: Corfe Castle or Windsor Castle.

This place is given in the Histoire des Ducs de Normandie (p. 114). Matilda was starved to death in prison by the order of king John. Fowler (p. 9) gives the place of her death as Windsor Castle.

Relationships

Father: Bernard de St Valéry.

This relationship is given by Turner (ODNB) and by Cawley. It is recorded in the Histoire des Ducs de Normandie (p. 111): “Cil Guillaumes de Brayouse avoit une moult vaillant dame à feme, qui fu née de la tierre le roi de France; fille fu Bernart de Saint-Waleri, le boin chevalier, Mehaus estoit apielée; biele dame estoit, moult sage et moult preus et moult vighereuse.”

Mother: unclear.

It is not certain which of Bernard's wives was the mother of Matilda.

Spouse: William de Briouze (died 1211).

This relationship is given by Turner (ODNB) and the Complete Peerage (1:22).

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 Turner.)

William de Briouze (died 1210) married Matilda de Clare.

Giles de Briouze (died November 1215). Bishop of Hereford.

Reginald de Briouze (died 1227/8) married (1) Graecia Brewer; married (2) Gwladus ferch Llywelyn ab Iorwerth.

John de Briouze married Mabel de Limesy.

Philip de Briouze married Matilda de Pont de l’Arche.

Bertha de Briouze married William (II) de Beauchamp.

Margaret de Briouze married Walter de Lacy, lord of Weobley, Herefordshire, and of Meath, Ireland.

Annora de Briouze married Hugh de Mortimer, baron of Wigmore, Herefordshire.

Matilda (Maud) de Briouze married Gruffudd ap Rhys.

Loretta de Briouze married Robert de Breteuil, 4th earl of Leicester.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Mathilde de Saint-Valéry” in Medieval Lands.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volume 1.

Fowler, G. Herbert. “De St. Walery” in The Genealogist: New Series: Volume XXX pp. 1-17.

Histoire des Ducs de Normandie et des Rois d’Angleterre (F. Michel, ed) (Paris, 1840)

“Tetbury:Manors and other estates” in A History of the County of Gloucestershire: Volume 11 (Victoria County History, 1976).

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