In 1970, when Jo Clifford is a university student in Edinburgh, she is hypnotized as part of a study on regression to past lives. Jo is such a good subject that her hands begin to bleed and she cries out, “William!” and dies. Fortunately, Sam Franklyn, the professor’s assistant, is able to resuscitate her. She had many siblings and half-siblings, including Thomas de St. Valery (died 1219), who was a son of Bernard by his second wife Eleanor de Domnart. Thomas married Adele de Ponthieu, by whom he had a daughter, Annora, who in her turn married Robert III, Count of Dreux, by whom she had issue. Thomas fought on the French side, at the Battle of Bouvines on 27 July 1214.[4] The ruins of Corfe Castle in Dorset, within whose dungeon Maud de Braose and her son William were starved to death

From Charles Cawley's FMG MedLands database ( http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#..., http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/WALES.htm#Rhysdied1234, http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#_Toc28...) Extract E:Histoire des Ducs de Normandie et des Rois d' Angleterre,ed. Francique Michel (Paris 1840) Maud de St. Valéry de Braose (1155-1210) was the wife of William de Braose, 7th Baron Abergavenny, 4th Lord Bramber, a powerful Marcher baron and court favourite of King John of England. She would later incur the wrath and emnity of the King. She is also known in history as Matilda de Braose, Moll Wallbee, and Lady of La Haie.[1]

Wow! 25 years old. And then there was the ten years or so I was researching it and dreaming about one day writing it and wondering if it would ever be published. That is a huge chunk out of my life. Here's a link to one of his 'hits' for those into aural torture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFood...

William de Braose ([c. ]1175- 1210). Starved to death with his mother in Corfe Castle. Married Maud de Clare, daughter of Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and Amice FitzRobert de Meullant of Gloucester, by whom he had issue, including John de Braose. [Probably born a few years earlier.] aka Lady of Hay, Lady of Le Haie, starved to death by King John, of Haye, Lady of LaHaie, Marcher BaronMaud and William are reputed to have had 16 children. [9] The best documented of these are listed below. A question exists as to which of her father's two wives was Mathilde's mother. Both Charles Crawley of Medlands and Etienne Pattou of Racines et Histoires position her as a daughter of Bernard's second marriage, to Anora (Eleanore), although some sources (see below) position her as the child of his first wife, Mathilde, who died c 1151.