Baron Braose
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The title of Baron Braose was created twice in the Peerage of England. Some records from the period of the second creation spell the name Brewose.
Funerary monument to Thomas de Braose, 3rd Baron Braose (1352–1395) (Baron of the 2nd creation), dressed in full armour, his head resting on a helm. The tomb chest is decorated with quatrefoils and heraldic escutcheons showing the lion rampant Braose arms impaling the arms of various heiresses. South wall of sanctuary, St Mary's Church, Horsham, West Sussex. Drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1781.
William de Braose was the second Baron Braose, as well as Lord of Gower and Lord of Bramber. He was held as a hostage after being captured in 1264 during the Second Barons' War and records of some of
Seal of William de Braose, 2nd Baron Braose, appended to the Barons' Letter, 1301, showing arms of Braose on an escutcheon: Azure semy of crosses-crosslet and a lion rampant or .
Line drawing of de Braose's seal, from a document of 1301