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Description: Arms of William de Braose (died 1230). Matthew Paris (c.1200-1259) in his Historia Anglorum (folio 116) attributed the arms, Party per pale indented gules and azure, to William V de Braose (d.1230). They appear as a marginal drawing of an inverted shield referring to his "impious murder" (Nota impiam murthram).[1] However Matthew Paris depicts different arms for him in his Chronica Majora, Part III, fol.75v, in an inverted shield: Gules, four piles meeting in base or[2]
Title: William de Braose (died 1230)
Credit: http://molcat1.bl.uk/IllImages/Kslides%5Cmid/K104/K104099.jpg
Author: Matthew Paris
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