94567466. Guy de Bryan & 94567467. Eve de Tracy
10/28/1216, Henry III, age 9, crowned king of England.
By 1223, Guy born in Okehampton, Devon, England, s/o §William
de Brian.
~1225, Eve born in England, d/o 189134934. Sir Henry de Tracy &
189134935. Maud de Brewes.
Aft. 1235, Guy’s father died.
By 1242, Guy married Eve. (S) Anglo-Norman Studies III, 1980,
Brown, P150.
10/1244, The justiciar of south Wales was ordered to give Guy
seisin of all the lands which William his father had held.
1245, Guy, under the Earl of Gloucester, fought against Dafydd
ap Llywelyn in Wales.
12/13/1247, Guy de Brian, holding lands in Devon, offered 5
marks silver for a charter for a fair at his manor of Laugharne, in south-west
Wales. [It was unusual to request a King’s charter in Wales which had its own
laws.]
12/15/1247, Guy de Brion granted a market and fair at his manor
of Talachar. (S) CChRs.
1253, Guy in a dispute with the sheriff of Devon over goods
stolen from a Gascon merchant ship wrecked off Slapton. [Guy had been in Wales
and had not ordered the goods to be taken.]
1256, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd of Gwynedd in north Wales, forged an
alliance with Maredudd ap Rhys Gryg of Deheubarth of south Wales, and began a
series of successful campaigns, recovering territory from the English.
6/1257, Guy, under the command of Stephen Bauzan, captured at
the battle of Cymerau when Rhys Fychan defected back to Welsh alliance. [Bauzan
was killed, Guy was one of few survivors, along with his daughter’s father-in-law,
Nicholas son of Martin.]
1257, Guy’s town and castle of Laugharne destroyed by the Welsh.
[Most of the garrison of the castles had been killed in the battle of Cymerau.]
6/1258, After an ineffectual campaign in Wales, King Henry III
made a truce agreement with Llywelyn ap Gruffydd.
6/1258, Guy was released [ransomed with agreement of payment]
from captivity.
6/19/1258, Guy’s tenants were requested to make him a competent
aid to acquit his ransom; Guy having been lately taken prisoner in Wales in the
king’s service and afterwards released by a grievous ransom.
10/1258, Carmarthen castle was committed to Guy by Edward the
king’s son.
10/29/1258, Both Guy de Brian and Nicholas fitz Martin granted
100£ of the king’s gift and special favour in aid of the payment of their
ransoms in Wales. (S) Calendar of the Liberate Rolls, 1959, P436.
7/15/1259, Gudione de Brion’ pardoned, on account of his ransom
in the service of the king, of the 5 marks by which he had formerly made a fine
with the king for having a fair in his manor of Talaghar’ [in 1247.]
4/12/1263, Simon de Montfort returned to England to lead a
rebellion of young barons.
1263, Guy granted letters of protection for a year in Ireland.
5/14/1264, King Henry captured at the battle of Lewes; Simon de
Montfort became effective ruler of England.
9/18/1264, The barons of the council committed Edward’s castles
of Cardigan and Carmarthen to Guy. (S) CPRs.
3/15/1265, Nicholas son of Martin to deliver the castle of
Kilkaran, Pembrokeshire, to Guy de Brione. (S) CPRs.
8/4/1265, Lord Edward defeated Montfort at the battle of
Evesham; ending the barons’ revolt.
1267, Guy a member of a group ordered to carry out the
arrangements for a peace treaty with Llywelyn in south Wales.
1270, Fine between Andrew Wake and William de Camville …
reversion to the right heirs of Guy de Brian. (S) Old Pembroke, Owen, 1902, P83.
11/16/1272, Edward I ascended to the throne while on crusade.
By 1276, Guy holding the barony of Talacharn, and a third of
the barony of St. Clare, and doing suit at the county each month. (S)
Antiquities of Langharne and Pendine, Curtis, 1880, P77.
By 1273, Eve died before her father.
2/27/1274-5, Sir Guy de Brian patron of Slapton. (S) Registers
of Walter Bronescombe, V1, 1889, P181.
Aft. 1278-82, Guy [likely] died.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P31. (S) FRsHIII, Richard Cassidy.
Family notes:
·
1219, William de Brian a witness to
the charter to Haverford of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke.
·
9/5/1229, Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to
place in respite, … the demand of 10 m. 7s. 8d. that he makes from William of
Brians … for the prest of King John made to Thomas le Breton, whose heir he is,
in Ireland. (S) FRsHIII.
·
7/20/1231, Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire
to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from the
fee formerly of Randulf de Praeres in his bailiwick, which is in the hand of
William de Brion. (S) FRsHIII.
·
9/12/1235, Order to Henry Kytte, William Brien
and Askeltillus son of Alice to receive the king’s wines that are in Nottingham
castle. (S) FRsHIII.
·
12/2/1262, Guy de Bryan [the younger] sold for
life the manor of Portlemouth. (S) Reports and Transactions, Devonshire, V43, 1911,
P225.
·
1278-82, Guy de Brionne junior granted a charter
to Laugharne in which he refers to Guy de Brionne senior [who is not listed as
a witness.] (S) British Borough Charters, Ballard, 2010, P-XLII.
·
This Guy is likely a younger brother of William
de Brian.
Child of Guy and Eve:
i. Maud de Bryan (47283733), born 12/25/1242 in England.
