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Philip de Braose

Anglo-Norman noble

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ998314 ↗
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Philip de Braose, 2nd Lord of Bramber (c. 1070 – c. 1134) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and Marcher Lord.

Origins

Philip was born about 1070 to 1073, the son of William de Braose, 1st Lord of Bramber (d. c. 1093/96) by his wife Eve de Boissey or Agnes de St. Clare. William de Braose had participated in the Norman conquest of England. He had been rewarded with the feudal barony of Bramber in Sussex and smaller holdings in Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire and Surrey.

Career

As heir, Philip consolidated his paternal lands, and expanded them by conquering Builth and New Radnor, in the Welsh borderlands, and establishing new Norman lordships over them.

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This entry incorporates text from “Philip de Braose” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.