Ada de Warenne

- 1178

• Name	Ada de Warenne
  Gender	Female
  Died	1178  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Siblings	3 siblings
  + 1. Gundred de Warenne ,   d. Aft 1156 + 2. Ada de Warenne ,   d. 1178 + 3. William III de Warenne ,   b. Abt 1119, Warwick, Warwickshire, England ,   d. Abt 7 Jan 1148, Laodicea, Anatolia  (Age ~ 29 years) + 4. Reynold de Warenne ,   b. Abt 1126, of Attlebridge, Norfolk, England ,   d. Aft 1179, Lewes Priory, Sussex, England  (Age ~ 54 years)
  Person ID	I8162	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	William II de Warenne,   b. Abt 1071,   d. 11 May 1138  (Age ~ 67 years)
  Mother	Isabel de Vermandois,   d. Bef Jun 1147
  Married	Aft 5 Jun 1118  [2, 3, 7]
  Family ID	F4959	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry of Scotland,   b. Abt 1114,   d. 12 Jun 1152  (Age ~ 38 years)
  Married	Aft 9 Apr 1139  [1, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  Children	+ 1. Aleida of Scotland,   d. Aft 11 Jan 1204 + 2. William I "The Lion", King of Scotland,   b. Abt 1142,   d. 4 Dec 1214, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 72 years) + 3. Margaret of Huntingdon,   b. Abt 1145,   d. 1201  (Age ~ 56 years) + 4. David of Scotland,   b. 1152,   d. 17 Jun 1219, Jerdelay, Yardley, Northamptonshire, England  (Age 67 years)
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2020
  Family ID	F1025	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Or Adeline. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Her public role as first lady of the Scottish court (there was no queen of Scotland from 1131 to 1186) was originally limited by her numerous pregnancies; but her fecundity averted a catastrophe when Henry, the expected successor to the kingship, died prematurely in 1152. During her widowhood she enjoyed in full measure the respect and status to which she was entitled as mother of two successive Scots kings, Malcolm IV and William the Lion. After Malcolm's enthronement as a boy of twelve in 1153, she figured prominently in his counsels and was keenly aware of her responsibilities. According to the well-informed William of Newburgh, Malcolm's celibacy dismayed her, and she endeavoured, albeit fruitlessly, to sharpen his dynastic instincts by placing a beautiful maiden in his bed. She was less frequently at William the Lion's court from 1165, no doubt because of the periodic illnesses that obliged her to turn to St Cuthbert for a cure. Ada's cosmopolitan tastes and connections reinforced the identification of Scottish élite society with European values and norms. Reginald of Durham regarded her piety as exemplary, and she played a notable role in the expansion of the reformed continental religious orders in Scotland. If she had a preference, it was for female monasticism, and by 1159 she had founded a priory for Cistercian nuns at Haddington, apparently at the instigation of Abbot Waldef of Melrose (d. 1159). Her household attracted Anglo-Norman adventurers, and she personally settled in Scotland knights from Northumberland and from the great Warenne honours in England and Normandy.

  
  

• Sources

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