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Little explanation...this is from pp. 166-167 of Tears of the Oracle by Justin Richards, one of the Benny NA's after they lost the Doctor Who license.  There's a lot they can't mention (the Doctor, Time Lords, etc), so things get referred to obliquely.  It's pretty obvious who Braxiatel is talking about, and in Empire of Glass, the Doctor makes a few hints that they knew each other quite well in childhood.  Come to think of it, Empire of Glass and Theatre of War (the novel with the Seventh Doctor and Benny where Braxiatel is introduced), are pretty much unresolved sibling rivalry among near-godlike aliens.  Their poor, sainted parents, as Mike would say.

In terms of timeline, this happens after "Gallifrey: Pandora," when Braxiatel took the Pandora fragment into his mind and partitioned it off.  That happened mere hours after he became Chancellor, and almost immediately after that happened, it came to light that he had been in contact with past and future selves for personal gain (to build the Collection), and he was stripped of his title and exiled.  (Was actually kind of a political screw job from Narvin and Darkel.)  Tears of the Oracle describes how Braxiatel won the planetoid the Collection was housed on and the first expedition to it. 

By the way, the editor to Tears of the Oracle was the same person as the script editor for "Smith and Jones," where the Doctor's brother was also mentioned.

( Excerpt from Tears of the Oracle behind the cut )