BRAOSE: Of territorial origin from the Honour of Braose or Briouse in the Department of Orne, halfway between Domfront and Arngentan. Paganus de Braiosa is the only member of the family known to have been connected with Scotland. He appears as witness to King David's charter founding the Abbey of Selkirk (afterwards removed to Kelso), c. 1120 (Kelso, 1), to the inquisition as to the extent of the lands of the church of Glasgow c. 1124 (REG., p. 7), and to the confirmations of Coldingham and other lands to the monks of Durham in 1126 and 1130 (Raine, 16, 17). The name has been sometimes confused with Bruce.

BRAOSE: The castle of Braose, now Brieuse, is two leagues from Falaise in Normandy. It was built by Robert de Braose, who had two sons: 1. Alan, who with his posterity remained in Normandy, and 2. Robert, who came to England with the Conqueror, but died soon after. He left, however, two sons: 1. William, who founded the baronial house of Braose of Bramber, Gower, &c., and 2. Adam, ancestor of the Bruces of Skelton, Annandale, &c., and of King Robert Bruce. Dr. Johnston's Hist, of Fam, of Bruce. See Bruce.