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4. WILLIAM DE BREWES (or BREUSE, BREHUSE, BREOUSE), Knt., of Bramber, Sussex, Buckingham and Bourton (in Buckingham), Buckinghamshire, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire, etc., son and heir, born about 1224 (of full age 15 July 1245). He married (1st) ALINE DE MULTON, daughter of Thomas de Multon, of Burgh-on-Sands, Cumberland, by Maud, daughter and heiress of Hubert de Vaux, of Surlingham, Norfolk and Denham, Suffolk. Her maritagium included the manor of Thorganby, Yorkshire. They had one son, William, Knt. [2nd Lord Brewes]. At some unspecified date, at his mother's request, he gave the monks of Sele Priory half an acre of land near the high road from Bramber to Chichester. In 1249 he sued Maurice de Berkeley in a plea of land in Devon and Gloucestershire. In 1254, for the good of his soul and of Aline his wife, he gave Sele Priory 229 acres in Crockhurst (in Horsham), Sussex, in exchange for an annual payment of 10 marks for tithes in Shoreham, Sussex. He fought in Wales in 1257, 1258, 1260, 1277, 1282, and 1283 being summoned by writs directed Willelmo de Breuse, Brehuse or Brewes. He adhered to King Henry III against the Barons. His wife, Aline, died before 1267/8. In 1267-8 he was sued by John de Stonegrave regarding the manor of Thorganby, Yorkshire. He married (2ma) AGNES DE MOELS, daughter of Nicholas de Moels (or Mules), of Cadburv, Somerset, by Hawise, daughter of James de Newmarch. Her maritaqium included the manors of Woodlands (in Horton) and Knowlton, Dorset. They had one son, Giles, Knt. He married (3ra) in or before 1271 MARY DE ROOS, daughter of Robert de Roos, Knt., of Helmsley, Yorkshire, by Isabel, daughter and heiress of William d'Aubeney [see ROOS 3 for her ancestry). Her maritagium included the manor of Weaverthorpe, Yorkshire. They had three sons, Richard, Peter, Knt., and allegedly William, and two or more daughters, including Margaret. In 1272 John Giffard and Maud his wife (William's half-sister) demanded against William the manor of Wickham, Kent as being the right of the said Maud, which manor she claimed she had demised to William while she was under age; William replied he had it by the feoffment of Maud by fine dated 1259 when she was of full age. In 1274-5 James son of James Haunsard arraigned an assize of mort dancestor against William and his wife, Mary, touching a messuage and land in Little Bookham, Surrey. In the same period William de Stane and Alice his wife arraigned an assize of mort dancestor against him touching a moiety of the manor of Grinstead, Sussex. In 1275-6 he and his wife, Mary, and others arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against James Haunsard and Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford regarding a tenement in Ockham, Surrey. In the same year he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Roger de Horn (or Herrne) regarding a tenement in Effingham and Bookham, Surrey. In the same year he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Robert de Stanton regarding unidentified property in Manningford, Wiltshire. In the same year he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Richard le Bel and others regarding a tenement in Weston, Hampshire. In the same year Daniel Fitz Hubert arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Brewes and others regarding a tenement in Wickham, Kent. In 1278 he Walter de Arundell, chaplain, various lands in Blakestoonde (in Horsham), Cowfold, Horsham, Midhurst, and Worthe (in Horsham), Sussex. In 1280-1 the Prior of Sele arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him regarding common of pasture in St. Leonard's, Horsham, Sele, Nuthurst, Cowfold, Slaugham, Selfleg, Ifeld, and Northam, Sussex. He was summoned to attend the king at Shrewsbury in 1283. In 1289 Joan, widow of Reynold Fitz Peter, made claim against William de Brewes, senior to one third of the manor of Manningford, Wiltshire, and to one third of six messages and four virgates of arable land with appurtenances in Manningford Bruce and Chirton, Wiltshires as being her dower, etc. He is recorded to have sat in the Parliament of April-May 1290, whereby he may be held to have become Lord Brewes. In 1290 he confirmed the gift of his father, John de Brewes, to Acornbury Priory of the rents of ten houses in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. SIR WILLIAM DE BREWES, 1st Lord Brewes, died at Findon, Sussex 6 Jan. 1290/1, and was buried at Sell, Sussex 15 January following. In 1291 his widow, Mary, received the manor of Tetbury, Gloucestershire as dower. The following year she and her step-son, William, surrendered the manor of Tetbury to her son, Richard, in place of Brewes family manors in Sussex which had previously been settled on Richard. She presented to the church of Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire in 1314. Mary, Lady Brewes, died testate shortly before 23 May 1326.
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Child of William de Brewes, Knt., by Aline de Multon:
i. WILLIAM DE BREWES, Knt., 2nd Lord Brewes [see next].
Child of William de Brewes, Knt., by Agnes de Moels:
i. GILES DE BREWES, Knt., of Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, married (15t) BEATRICE DE SAINT HELEN (see FROME 5]:180 (2nd) MAUD DE WHITNEY [see FROME 5].181
Children of William de Brewes, Knt., by Mary de Roos:
i. PETER DE BREWES, Knt., of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, married AGNES DE CLIFFORD [see TETBURY 5].182
ii. MARGARET DE BREWES, married RALPH DE CAMOYS, Knt., Lord Camoys [see CAMOYS 6].
