Braose, Philip de

Braose, Philip de (fl. 1172–77), Anglo-Norman adventurer, was the son of Philip de Braose, lord of Bramber in Sussex. As a younger son of his father, and so not in line to inherit the extensive family estates in Sussex and the Welsh marches, Philip chose to come to Ireland with the first wave of adventurers. He was one of three custodes, or constables, appointed to Wexford by Henry II (qv) in 1172. Five years later Henry, disillusioned by the evident failure of his agreement with Irish high-king Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (qv), whose conflict with the Munster dynasties had left the land of Tuathmumu (Limerick) torn by war, made a speculative grant of that kingdom to Philip who was present at the council of Oxford. A similar grant had already been refused by other knights on the grounds that the region was not conquered. Philip advanced on Limerick with the support of Robert fitz Stephen (qv) and Miles de Cogan (qv), but their forces retreated before those of Domnall Mór Ua Briain (qv), the Irish king of Tuathmumu. Despite Philip's failure to gain possession of his grant, the honour of Limerick was conceded to his nephew William de Braose (qv) in 1201, by which time English control was already extending into the region.

Sources

DNB; Orpen, Normans, i, 281; ii, 33, 38; Giraldus Cambrensis, Expugnatio Hibernica / The conquest of Ireland, ed. and trans. A. B. Scott and F. X. Martin (1978), 185, 317, 336; Robin Frame, Colonial Ireland, 1169–1369 (1981), 18, 33; F. J. Byrne, ‘Succession lists’, NHI, ix, 314; H. A. Jefferies, ‘The founding of Anglo-Norman Cork, 1177–85’, Cork Hist. Soc. Jn., xci (1986), esp. 30; George Cunningham, The Anglo-Norman advance into the south-west midlands of Ireland, 1185–1221 (1987), 54–5, 64, 69; Marie Therese Flanagan, Anglo-Norman settlers, Angevin kingship: interactions in Ireland in the late twelfth century (1989)

Publishing information

Downloads

Downloads