William de Warenne

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Earl of Surrey. He was with John at Runnymede and advised him to assent to the Magna Carta.

Warden of the Cinque Ports; a justiciar of England, 1230; custodian of Bamburgh and Knapp castles; King's Councillor; Sheriff of Surrey 1217-26.

William married Maud Marshal, Marshal Of England before 13 Oct 1225. Maud (daughter of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare) was born in 1192; died on 27 Mar 1248; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John de Warenne was born after Jul 1231; died about 29 Sep 1304 in Kennington, near London, England; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England.

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Earl of Surrey (jure uxoris). Vicomte of Touraine. Advocate of St. Bertin. "Half-brother of Henry II of England whom he supported during the revolt of his sons in 1173. Became 5th Earl of Surrey upon his marriage in 1164. In 1166 he was holding 60 knight's fees. Present at the coronation of Richard I, 1189, and John, 1199. During the absence of his nephew, Richard I on crusade, he upheld the government against the intrigues of his brother John. He and his wife were benefactors to many religious houses." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Sometimes called Hamelin de Warenne. Calling him "Hamelin Plantagenet" is an anachronistic back-formation.

Hamelin married Isabel de Warenne in Apr 1164. Isabel (daughter of William III de Warenne and Ela of Ponthieu) died after Apr 1203; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 13 Jul 1199
• Alternate death: 12 Jul 1203

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Countess of Surrey.

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Count of Anjou.

Also called Geoffrey Plantagenet; Geoffrey "le Bel".

Royal Ancestry, Wikipedia, and most notably the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography all say he married the Empress Matilda in Le Mans. The Henry Project says the wedding took place in Worcester, citing L. C. Bethemann, ed., Roberti de Monte Chronica (a continuation by Robert de Torigni of the chronicle of Sigebert de Gembloux).

Geoffrey married (Unknown mistress of Geoffrey of Anjou). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1118

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Earl of Surrey.

"Slain when the rear guard of the French king's army was cut to pieces in Laodicea." [Royal Ancestry]

Peter Stewart, on soc.genealogy.medieval, 5 Sep 2019:

In CP vol xii part 1, p. 497 William [III de Warenne] is stated to have died on 19 January 1147/8 "when the rearguard of the French King's army was cut to pieces in the defiles of Laodicea". This was the battle at Cadmos mountain, when Louis VII had to fight his way to safety after being separated from his guard including William, Gaucher II of Châtillon & Montjay and Evrard III of Breteuil, who were killed.

However, the battle took place ca 7 January, certainly before 19th which was the date given without citing any authority by George Watson in The Genealogist (1895), referenced in CP as "G. W. Watson in Genealogist, N.S., vol. xi, p. 132, and authorities there cited". Odo of Deuil, who was present, said that the battle took place on the day after the king's army set off from Laodicea, and they had stayed there only a few days after arriving on 3 or 4 January.

Jonathan Phillips in his chronology in The Crusades, 1095–1204, second edition (2014), p xvii, placed the battle definitely on 7 January, but other historians have estimated 6 or 8 of the same month.

William married Ela of Ponthieu. Ela (daughter of Guillaume III Talvas and Helie of Burgundy) was born in of Alencon, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 4 Oct 1174. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 10 Dec 1174
• Alternate death: 1178

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Also called Ala; Ela Talvas; Adela Talvas; Ela d'Alencon.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1092
• Alternate death: 13 Nov 1143, Acre, Palestine
• Alternate death: 10 Nov 1144, Jerusalem

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Count of Anjou 1109-1129; Count of Maine (jure uxoris) 1110-1129.

Fulk married Eremburge de la Flèche in 1110. Eremburge (daughter of Helie de la Flèche and Matilde de Chateau-du-Loir) died in 1126. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ermengarde of Maine.

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Earl of Surrey; usually styled Earl of Warenne. Advisor to King John at Runnymede.

William married Isabel de Vermandois after 5 Jun 1118. Isabel (daughter of Hugues le Grand and Adèle de Vermandois) died before Jun 1147. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef Jul 1147

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Countess of Leicester. Also called Elizabeth de Vermandois.

Royal Ancestry says she was living c. 1138 and that she died "13 (or 17) February, sometime before June 1147, when her son, William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey, left on crusade." Several sources say she died in the priory of Lewes, Sussex.

Via her two husbands and thirteen children, descent from her is so common among modern people with traceable medieval ancestry that Douglas Richardson once jokingly asserted the existence of an exclusive lineage organization called the Society of Non-Descendants of Isabel de Vermandois. Of the 19 root people in this database with demonstrable descent from any monarch, only three would be eligible for membership in such a group.

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Count of Ponthieu and Alençon.

Guillaume married Helie of Burgundy about 1115. Helie (daughter of Odo I of Burgundy and Sibylla of Burgundy) was born about 1080 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France; died on 28 Feb 1142. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alice, Alix of Burgundy; Ela of Burgundy.