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Maud de St Valery
d. 1210
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Died
1210
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About
Maud de St Valery, Lady of Hay, spoke too plainly about King John and the death of Arthur of Brittany, and the king starved her and her eldest son to death in Corfe Castle. Her fate was remembered among the reasons the barons forced Magna Carta from him five years later.
Research notes
MAUD de ST VALERY (c.1155-1210), 'the Lady of Hay'; wife of William de Braose; STARVED TO DEATH at Corfe with her son by King John, 1210; mother of Reginald (our line). Ancestry above note-only. Standard well-documented medieval genealogy per the cited authorities; contested rungs note-only, not hardened.