Sir Breuse Gawdy

BRUISE BRUESE BROUSE BRUCE BRUS This is the surname of an illustrious family of Norman extraction the English and Scottish branches being descended from Robert de Brus a Norman knight who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066 and died soon after leaving a son Adam de Brus who became the ancestor of the Breuses and Bruses of Britain

It will be seen that the B reuses were associated with the Gawdy and Gaudens both in Suffolk and in Surrey and also that members of the families of Gawdy and Gauden owned lands in the same parish of Denbenham Norfolk Sir Dennis Gauden Knt acquired the land on Clapham Common on which he built his mansion of the B reuse family The Gawdy family at Redenhall were descended maternally from the B reuses in Normandy and were intermarried with them in England in later generations

As the Breuse family were the lords of the Manor of Redenhall in Denbenham soon after the Conquest and as Sir Breuse Gawdy Knt derived his first name from them and settled in Redenhall along with them it seems probable that this Gawdy family inherited some of their lands from the Breuses as their heirs

These Breuses were possessed of estates in Normandy long after their coming to England and Scotland where they were granted extensive lands fn the absence of any historical evidence to the contrary I shall assume to say that the Gawdys living in the Border Shires of Scotland migrated from England with their kinsmen the Breuses and with the Norman families of Le Haye Comyn and Soul is

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The first recognized head of our family in Great Breton was the former Norman Knight, Sir Breuse Gawdy, who had been captured by the British at the battle of Gascon in 1352. After his release from prison he was naturalized and stayed at Suffolk England.

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Recent investigation and search pursued has revealed that the head of the baronial families in England was a Frenchman or a Norman who was taken prisoner at the battle of Gascony He was a knight named Sir Bruise Gawdy He was naturalized and settled in Suffolk England as early as 1352 He married a daughter of William Hammond of Swaffham Bulbeck Cambridge This historical fact is supported by the pedigree on Vellum compiled for Sir Framlingham Gawdy and now preserved in the British Museum This ancestor of the Gawdy families in England evidently represented the ancient French Norman house of Gaudin so long distinguished in the official life of France a family still numerous and respectable in that country