Note 7.1

Philip de Braose appears in the Dictionary of National Biography, volume vi, edited by Leslie Stephens (London, 1886). The entry was written by JH Round, as follows: 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 ('Limericense 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).] J. H. R.

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