Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Braose, Philip de

764308Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 06 — Braose, Philip de1886John Horace Round

BRAOSE, PHILIP de (fl. 1172), warrior, was a younger son of Philip de Braose, lord of Bramber, and an uncle of William de Braose [q. v.] He was one of the three captains of adventurers left in charge of Wexford at Henry's departure in 1172, and later in the same year he received a grant of North Munster ('Limericenæ videlicet regnum'). Supported by Robert Fitz-Stephen and Miles de Cogan, he set out to take possession of it, but, on approaching Limerick, turned back in a panic. He was presumably dead on 12 Jan. 1201, when North Munster was granted to his nephew William. His widow, Eva (Fin. 4 Hen. III, p. 1, m. 2), or Maud (Claus. 11 Hen. III, p. 1), married Philip, the baron of Naas, and survived him.

[Giraldus Cambrensis' Expugnatio (ed. Dimock).]

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