Note 5.5

C Warren Hollister in Monarchy, Magnates and Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World (1986), analyses the relationship between landed wealth and the frequency of attestations among English magnates alive in the year 1100 (Chapter 5, Magnates and "Curials" in Early Norman England, Table C). Philip de Braose is tenth in Hollister's list of the greatest English lay landholders. His land is valued at £455 pounds per year, plus an unspecified amount for his property in Wales. Philip is shown as having made no attestations of William II's charters. This is consistent with the view that Philip was crusading and returned to Wales late that year.

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