Isabel de Vermandois

Abt 1081 - Bef 1147  (< 66 years)

• Name	Isabel de Vermandois  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1081  [4]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	Bef Jul 1147  [5, 6]
  Death	Bef Jun 1147  [7]
  Person ID	I2053	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of GR, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of KL, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Hugues le Grand,   b. Abt 1057   d. 18 Oct 1101, Tarsus, Cilicia (Age 44 years)
  Mother	Adèle de Vermandois,   b. Abt 1065   d. 1120 (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1080  [7, 8]
  Family ID	F2751	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Robert of Meulan,   b. Abt 1046, Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d. 5 Jun 1118 (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	1096  [5, 7, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Isabel de Beaumont   d. Aft 1172 + 2. Maud of Meulan   d. Aft 1189 + 3. Waleran of Meulan,   b. 1104   d. 9 Apr 1166 (Age 62 years) + 4. Robert of Meulan,   b. 1104, Meulan, Île-de-France, France d. 5 Apr 1168 (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F1788	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2026

  
  

  Family 2	William II de Warenne,   b. Abt 1071   d. 11 May 1138 (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	Aft 5 Jun 1118  [5, 7, 10]
  Children	+ 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)
  Family ID	F4959	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2017

  
  

• Notes

  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 32 root people in this database with demonstrable descent from any monarch, only two would be eligible for membership in such a group — both of them individuals whose < i>only known medieval "gateway ancestor" is the early Connecticut settler Alice Freeman, whose long traceable medieval ancestry stays firmly in the minor gentry until finally connecting to the later Anglo-Saxon kings.

  
  

• Sources

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