{32} A Pretty Little Village On The Southern Banks Of The Usk,
About Four Miles From Hay, On The Road Leading To Brecknock.
{33} The great desolation here alluded to, is attributed by Dr.
Powel to Howel and Meredyth, sons of Edwyn ap Eineon; not to Howel,
son of Meredith.
In the year 1021, they conspired against Llewelyn
ap Sitsyllt, and slew him: Meredith was slain in 1033, and Howel in
1043.
{34} William de Breusa, or Braose, was by extraction a Norman, and
had extensive possessions in England, as well as Normandy: he was
succeeded by his son Philip, who, in the reign of William Rufus,
favoured the cause of king Henry against Robert Curthose, duke of
Normandy; and being afterwards rebellious to his sovereign, was
disinherited of his lands. By his marriage with Berta, daughter of
Milo, earl of Hereford, he gained a rich inheritance in Brecknock,
Overwent, and Gower. He left issue two sons: William and Philip:
William married Maude de Saint Wallery, and succeeded to the great
estate of his father and mother, which he kept in peaceable
possession during the reigns of king Henry II. and king Richard I.
In order to avoid the persecutions of king John, he retired with his
family to Ireland; and from thence returned into Wales; on hearing
of the king's arrival in Ireland, his wife Maude fled with her sons
into Scotland, where she was taken prisoner, and in the year 1210
committed, with William, her son and heir, to Corf castle, and there
miserably starved to death, by order of king John; her husband,
William de Braose, escaped into France, disguised, and dying there,
was buried in the abbey church of Saint Victor, at Paris. The
family of Saint Walery, or Valery, derived their name from a sea-
port in France.
{35} A small church dedicated to Saint David, in the suburbs of
Brecknock, on the great road leading from thence to Trecastle. "The
paroche of Llanvays, Llan-chirch-Vais extra, ac si diceres, extra
muros. It standeth betwixt the river of Uske and Tyrtorelle brooke,
that is, about the lower ende of the town of Brekenok." - Leland,
Itin. tom. v. p. 69.
{36} David Fitzgerald was promoted to the see of Saint David's in
1147, or according to others, in 1149. He died A.D. 1176.
{37} Now Howden, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
{38} Osred was king of the Northumbrians, and son of Alfred. He
commenced to reign in A.D. 791, but was deprived of his crown the
following year.
{39} St. Kenelm was the only son and heir of Kenulfus, king of the
Mercians, who left him under the care of his two sisters, Quendreda
and Bragenilda. The former, blinded by ambition, resolved to
destroy the innocent child, who stood between her and the throne;
and for that purpose prevailed on Ascebert, who attended constantly
on the king, to murder him privately, giving him hopes, in case he
complied with her wishes, of making him her partner in the kingdom.
Under the pretence of diverting his young master, this wicked
servant led him into a retired vale at Clent, in Staffordshire, and
having murdered him, dug a pit, and cast his body into it, which was
discovered by a miracle, and carried in solemn procession to the
abbey of Winchelcomb.
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