The arrival of the engine, with 480 great stones as ammunition, persuaded the defenders of the castle to surrender peaceably.

As a reward for his service in Flanders, he received the wardship of John de Mowbray, who Braose eventually married to his daughter Aline.

[2] Braose captured the Welsh rebel William Cragh in 1290, whose miraculous resurrection after being hanged was attributed to Thomas de Cantilupe.

[7] This led in 1307 to Braose giving testimony to papal commissioners inquiring into the events surrounding Cragh's hanging and whether or not it would support the canonisation of Cantilupe.

[8] It was most likely Braose who commissioned a condensed copy of Domesday Book, now Public Record Office manuscript E164/1.

[10] In 1320 King Edward II of England confiscated the lordship of Gower on the grounds that Braose had given it to his son-in-law Mowbray without royal permission.

Over the preceding years Braose had promised Gower to a number of persons,[12] including Humphrey de Bohun, the Earl of Hereford, Hugh Despenser the Younger, and Roger Mortimer of Wigmore.

Despenser persuaded the king in 1320 to take Gower into royal hands in October, and was appointed keeper of the honour in November.

Braose was then induced to sue the new holder of Gower for the return of the barony in April 1324, which action succeeded in June 1324.

[1] It appears that there was a son named William, who was the subject of a military summons from King Edward in 1311, but nothing further is mentioned of him after 1315.

[17] Braose died not long before 1 May 1326[1] and his heirs were his daughter Aline and his grandson John de Bohun.

[17] Thomas Walsingham stated in his chronicle that Braose was "very rich by descent but a dissipater of the property left to him".