Maud de Braose

[2] She features in many Welsh myths and legends; and is also known to history as Matilda de Braose, Moll Wallbee and Lady of La Haie.

He also held the lordships of Gower, Hay, Brecon, Radnor, Builth, Abergavenny, Kington, Painscastle, Skenfrith, Grosmont, White Castle and Briouze in Normandy.

When King John of England ascended the throne in 1199, Braose became a court favourite and was also awarded the lordship of Limerick, Ireland.

The reason is not known but it is alleged that Maud made indiscreet comments regarding the murder of King John's nephew Duke Arthur I of Brittany.

"[13] The king quickly led troops to the Welsh border and seized all of the castles that belonged to William de Braose.

Maud and her eldest son William fled to Ireland, where they found refuge at Trim Castle with the de Lacys, the family of her daughter Margaret.

Maud's daughter Margaret de Lacy founded a religious house, the Hospital of St. John, in Aconbury, Herefordshire in her memory.

[2] On 10 October 1216, eight days before his death, King John conceded three carucates of land in the royal forest of Aconbury to Margaret for the construction of the religious house.

It is a highly fictional account of Maud's life simultaneously set in the past and in 20th-century England where she was fictitiously reincarnated as a modern Englishwoman.

The incident of Maud's starvation and death at the hands of King John is fictionalized in Pamela Kaufman's The Prince of Poison.