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Briouze [Braose], Loretta de, countess of Leicester (d. in or after 1266), noblewoman and recluse  

Susan M. Johns

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23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Briouze [Braose], Loretta de, countess of Leicester (d. in or after 1266), noblewoman and recluse, was one of the children of William (III) de Briouze (d. 1211) and Matilda de St Valéry (d. 1210). Her father was a great man in the Anglo-Welsh marches, and four of her five sisters who survived into adulthood married Welsh or marcher lords; notably ...