Knight, 7th Earl of Surrey, Baron of Lewes, Sussex. Constable of Bamborough Castle, justice itinerant. Some records consider him to be the 6th Earl of Surrey.
Son and heir to William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey and his second wife, Maud Marshal. Grandson of Hamelin and Countess Isabel de Warenne, Sir William Marshal and Isabel FitzGilbert, daughter of Richard Strongbow de Clare.
Husband of Alice de Lusignan, half sister of King Henry III, daughter of Hughes X de Lusignan, Count of Marche and Isabel, daughter of Ademar Taillefer and widow of King John Lackland. They were married August 1247 and had one son and two daughters:
Sir William, husband of Joan de Vere
Eleanor, wife of Sir Henry Percy
Isabel, wife of John de Balliol
By an unknown noblewoman, John also had two illegitimate sons:
John, Canon of York
William, cleric
John was a boy when his father died in 1240, and John became a royal ward with Peter of Savoy appointed his guardian. His marriage to royalty was frowned upon as she was considered to be a penniless foreigner. John knighted in Gascony in 1254 along with Edward I, the son of Henry III. John was originally a strong supporter of the king, but switched loyalties to Simon de Montfort, but changing back to the Royalists in 1263, sieged by Montfort at Rochester Castle in 1264, present for the Battle of Lewes. After the king's capture, he fled to Europe, returning a year later to fight at the Battle of Evesham and the siege of Kenilworth. On 22 August 1296, the king appointed John the Warden of the Kingdom and land of Scotland. He returned to England a year later claiming Scotland's climate was bad for his health. John was defeated by William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling Bridge and fled to York. John later would re-take the castle at Berwick, and was one of the commanders at English victory, the Battle of Falkirk. John died testate at his Kennington home, buried at Lewes with the Archbishop of Canterbury officiating. John was succeeded by his grandson, John de Warenne.
John was involved in a land dispute lawsuit with Sir Alan la Zouche, and John with his companions "murderously assaulted" Alan and his son, Roger, at the Westminster Hall of Justice late June or early July 1270. Roger was run off, Alan was left to die, by lingered until August, eventually dying of his wounds. Sir John was made to pay a fine to the crown for the assault.
Knight, of Bromfield and Yale, Denbighshire, Wales. Son and heir, born 15 Jan 1256, knighted at Winchester in 1285. He married Joan de Vere about 10 June 125, the date of the indemnity, whose maritagium included the manors of Medmenham in Buckinghamshire, Crowmarsh in Oxfordshire, Margaretting in Prittlewell and Woolston in Chigwell, both in Essex. They had one son Jon and one daughter, Alice. William also had one illegitimate son, John, a clerc and prior of Hoxton and Castleacre. Sir William attended a tournament at Croydon and is said have been ambushed and cruelly slain by his rivals.
Knight, Baron of Liddel Strength, Cumberland, Bourne, Lincolnshire, and Cottingham, Yorkshire. Son and heir of Hugh Wake, Baron of Bourne, Lincolnshire and Joan, eldest daughter of Nicholas de Stuteville. Joined the rebel barons against Henry III in 1264, taken prisoner in 1265, tried and pardoned. In 1280, he and his wife sold five of their manors for £ 1000.
Knight, Baron of Liddell Strength, Cumberland and Bourne in Lincoln. Held half the barony of Cottingham, Yorkshire. They had letters of protection for traveling beyond the seas in 1294, summoned to Parliament 1295 to 1299 as Johannni Wake. Captain of the march of Scotland 1297, at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298. His wife was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at East Deeping Lincoln, at the insistence of Queen Margaret, Edward I's second wife.
Her first husband, John Comyn, was the son of the John Comyn killed by Robert the Bruce. Her husband died at the Battle of Bannockburn.
When her second husband, Edmund, son of King Edward I was beheaded, she was pregnant and confined to Salisbury with her two young children. She was a cousin of Roger de Mortimer through her mother, Edward's most hated enemy. Her brother, Thomas, was also accused of treason but later pardoned. When King Edward III took control from Roger Mortimer he took Margaret and her children into his household.
Brother of St. Leger, who d. 677, Bishop of Autun
Seigneur de Verennes, near Dieppe, France. REF Baronage1. Lord of Reigate, Lews, Coningsburgh; Lord of Bellencombre, in Normandy. Commander in the Norman Army, Sep 1066.
Gundreda the wife of William de Warren has been claimed to be a daughter of William the Conqueror. This is not correct. See the full examination of these claims, and the disproof, by C. T. Clay, *Early Yorkshire Charters*, volume VIII, pp. 40-46.
William declared her his daughter, implying she was not Matilda's daughter. http://www.patpnyc.com/conq/wwarenne.shtml
The following is from pboren@pnut.rand.org (Pat Boren) and may contain errors. WILLIAM de WARENNE was considered a near kinsman of William the Conqueror. He received large grants of land in England in recognition of his distinguished part in the Battle of Hastings. In 1075, he was appointed joint chief justiciar and helped suppress the rebellion of the earls of Hereford and Norfolk. In 1077 he founded the St. Pancras Priory of Lewes (where he is buried), the first house of the Cluniac order in England. The position of his castle at Lewes rendered his loyalty especially useful to King William Rufus during the rebellion of 1088, for which he was granted the earldom of Surrey. In addition to Lewes, William held over 40 manors in Sussex. He married Gundred and had Reginald, Edith, and William.
Gunreda died in childbirth 06 Jun 1085.
One of the Norman aristocrats who fought at the Battle of Hastings and became great landowners in England.
He was a son of Ralph de Warenne and Emma and a grandnephew of duchess Gunnor, wife of duke Richard I of Normandy. As a young man he helped secure duke William's hold on Normandy, most notably in the campaigns of 1052 through 1054 which culminated in the Battle of Mortemer. After this battle Roger de Mortemer forfeited most of his lands, and the duke gave them to William. The de Warenne surname derives from the castle of that name on the River Varenne, which flows through the territory William acquired in Upper Normandy.
William was one of the nobles who advised duke William when the decision to invade England was being considered. He fought at Hastings, and afterwards received the Rape of Lewes in Sussex, and subsequently lands in twelve other shires. In addition to the cluster around Lewes, there were clusters around the castles he built at Castle Acre in Norfolk and Conisbrough in Yorkshire. By the time of the Domesday survey he was one of the wealthiest landholders in England.
William was loyal to William II, and it was probably after the rebellion of 1088 that he was created Earl of Surrey. He died shortly afterwards of wounds he received while helping suppress the rebellion.
He married twice, first to Gundred (Latin: Gundrada), sister of Gerbod, Earl of Chester, and secondly to a sister of Richard Gouet. William and Gundred had three children: William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (d. 1138); Edith de Warenne who married Gerard de Gournay; and Reynold de Warenne, who inherited lands from his mother in Flanders and died before 1118.
It was at one time thought that Gundred was a daughter of William the Conqueror and his wife Matilda of Flanders. This was disproved in the 19th Century but nevertheless remains in many faulty genealogies. William and Gundred were married around 1070, when her brother Frederick was killed by Hereward the Wake.
~~~~~~William de Warren was from Varenne in Dieppe at Bellencombre in Normandy. William, Count of Varenne, who was at Hastings, was entrusted with governing England during Duke William's absences in Normandy, along with Bishop Odo and William FitzOsberne. His son, William Warren II became Earl of Surrey. William III joined the first Crusade and died in the Holy Land. William de Warren held many lordships throughout England. In Shropshire he was an under-tenant to Earl Roger. Held Whitchurch. http://www.infokey.com/Domesday/Shropshire.htm
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MY bio for his meorial:
William was a younger son of Ranulf I de Warenne and his first wife, Beatrice. William was from Varenne, Seine Martime, Bellecombre, France, where the name Warenne originated. The dates of his birth vary from 1035 to 1055, but since he was one of the few documented companions to William at the Battle of Hastings 14 October 1066, his birth is more likely to have been closer to 1035.
William married Gundred, the sister of Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester. They had the following children:
* William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, married Elizabeth de Vermandois
* Edith de Warenne, wife of Gerard de Gournay & Drew de Monchy
* Reynold de Warenne, died c 1106
* unknown daughter, wife of Ernise de Coulonces
Gundred died in childbirth in 1085, and William married a sister of Richard Gouet
William was loyal to Duke William and was at the Battle of Mortemer in 1054, after which he was rewarded with lands and the Mortimer Castle confiscated from William's uncle, Roger of Mortemer. He had lands at Bellencombe which became the center of his holdings in Normandy.
After the conquest of England, the Domesday records his extensive holdings in thirteen counties including the barony of Lewes, East Sussex, England, and the manors of Carletune and Beningtun, Coinsborough in Yorkshire and Castle Acre in Norfolk.
He was appointed joint justice-general with Richard de Benefactis. He raised an army and defeated the rebels at the battle of Fagadune and reportedly had the right foot of each prisoner cut off. He built the castle of Holt, Wrexham, Wales.
On a journey to Rome, William and his wife were stopped at Burgundy, unable to proceed due to a war between Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII, They visited Cluny Abbey, and so impressed with the monks and their dedication they decided to found a Cluniac priory on their lands in England, which became Lewes Priory, dedicated to St Pancras.
Warenne was loyal to King William II, and became the Earl of Surrey during that time. He was mortally wounded at the siege of Pevensey Castle, and died 24 June 1088 at Lewes, buried next to Gundred at the Chapterhouse. At his death, he was worth what would be the equivalent of $143 billion today.
His death was described by Dugdale: "It is reported that this Earl William did violently detain certain lands from the monks of Ely; for which, being often admonished by the abbot, and not making restitution, he died miserably. And, though his death happened very far off the isle of Ely, the same night he died, the abbot lying quietly in his bed, and meditating on heavenly things, heard the soul of this earl, in its carriage away by the devil, cry out loudly, and with a known and distinct voice, 'Lord have mercy on me, Lord have mercy on me'. And, moreover, that the next day after, the abbot acquainted all the monks in the chapter therewith. And likewise that about four days after, there came a messenger to them from the wife of this earl, with 100 shillings for the good of his soul, who told them that he died the very hour that the abbot had heard the outcry. But that neither the abbot nor any of the monks would receive it; not thinking it safe for them to take the money of a damned person'. 'If this part of the story', adds Dugdale, 'as to the abbot's hearing the noise, be no truer than the last, viz., that his lady sent him 100 shillings, I shall deem it to be a mere fiction, in regard the lady was certainly dead about three years before."
Lord of Lewes, Reigate, and Coningsburgh; Lord of Bellecombre and Mortemer, in Normandy.
The following is from pboren@pnut.rand.org (Pat Boren) and may contain errors.
WILLIAM de WARENNE was the second Earl of Warren and Surrey. In 1093 he sought to marry Mathilda (who eventually married King Henry I of England). This marriage may have been at the bottom of his hatred for Henry. In 1101 he shared in inviting Robert, Duke of Normandy, to invade England and because of this act, the king deprived him of his estates. Later Henry restored William to his former position and from that time on, William was the king's faithful supporter and trusted friend. William died in 1138. His wife was Isabel Vermandois, by whom he had William (third Earl of Surrey), Reginald, Ralph, Gundred, and Ada (who married Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, and whose daughter Margaret married Henry de Bohun).
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2nd Earl of Surrey
Warenne, William de From Varenne, near Bellencombre, Seine-Inf. Fought with William I at Hastings. Lord of the Sussex rape (area) of Lewes, with castle there; created Earl of Surrey, 1088; died same year from an arrow. Holdings in 13 counties all over the country. In modern money his holdings would be worth a £57 billion, a record in Britain during the last millennium.
He accompanied Robert Curthose in his 1101 invasion of England, and afterwards lost his English lands and titles and was exiled to Normandy. There he complained to Curthose that he expended great effort in the duke's behalf and had in return lost nearly everything. Curthose's return to England in 1103 was apparently made to convince his brother to restore William's earldom. This was successful, though Curthose had to give up he had received after the 1101 invasion, and subsequently William was loyal to king Henry.
To further insure William's loyalty Henry considered marrying him to one of his many illegitimate daughters. He was however disuaded by Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury, for any of the daughters would have been within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity. The precise nature of the consanguinous relationship Anselm had in mind has been much debated, but it is most likely he was referring to common descent from the father of duchess Gunnor.
William was one of the commanders on Henry's side (against Robert Curthose) at the Battle of Tinchebray in 1108. Afterwards, with his loyalty thus proven, he became more prominent in Henry's court.
In 1110 Curthose's son William Clito escaped along with Helias of Saint-Saens, and afterwards Warenne received the forfeited Saint-Saens lands, which were very near his own in upper Normandy. By this maneuver king Henry further assured his loyalty, for the successful return of Clito would mean at the very least Warenne's loss of this new territory.
He fought at the Battle of Bremule in 1119, and was at Henry's deathbed 1135.
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William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (d. 1138), was the son of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey and his first wife Gundred, daughter of William I, the Conqueror. He is more often referred to as Earl Warenne or Earl of Warenne than as Earl of Surrey.
Sometime around 1093 he tried to marry Matilda (or Edith), daughter of king Máel Coluim III of Scotland. She instead married Henry I of England, and this may be the cause of William's great dislike of Henry I, which was to be his apparent motivator in the following years.
In 1118 William acquired the royal-blooded bride he desired when married Elizabeth de Vermandois. She was a daughter of count Hugh of Vermandois, a son of Henry I of France, and was the widow of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. By Elizabeth he had three sons and two daughters.
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William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey (d. 1148), was the eldest son of the William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey and Elizabeth de Vermandois. He was thus a great-grandson of Henry I of France, and half-brother to Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Waleran IV de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, and Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford.
He was generally loyal to king Stephen. He fought at the Battle of Lincoln (1141), and was one of the leaders of the army that pursued the empress Matilda in her flight from Winchester, and which captured Robert of Gloucester.
He was one of the nobles that, along with Louis VII of France, took crusading vows at Vezelay in 1146, and he accompanied the initial army of the First Crusade the next year. He was killed by a Turkish attack while the army was marching across Anatolia on their way to the Holy Land.
William married Adela (or Ela), daughter of William Talvas, count of Ponthieu, who was the son of Robert of Bellême. They had one child, a daughter, Isabel, who was his heir. She married first William of Blois, second son of king Stephen, and who became earl of Warenne or Surrey. After he died without children in October 1159, she married Hamelin, half-brother of Henry II, who also became Earl of Warenne or Surrey. He took the de Warenne surname, and their descendants carried on the earldom.
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Theobald was the son of Hervey Walter and his wife Maud de Valoignes, who was one of the daughters of Theobald de Valoignes Their children were Theobald, Hubert - future Chief Justiciar and Archbishop of Caterbury, Walter, Roger and Hamon. Theobald Walter was brought up, along with his brother Hubert (the future Archbishop of Canterbury), by his uncle Ranulf de Glanvill, the great justiciar of Henry II who had married his mother's sister Bertha.
Theobald's father had been the hereditary holder of the office of butler of England. When Theobald accompanied Prince John to Ireland in 1185, he was named Butler of Ireland and was also granted a large section of the north-eastern part of the Kingdom of Limerick. As butler of Ireland in 1177 he and his successors were to attend the Kings of England at their coronation, and that day present them with the first cup of wine. Some time after, that King granted him the prisage of wines, to enable him, and his heirs, the better to support the dignity of that office. By this grant, he had two tons of wine out of every ship, which broke bulk in any trading port of Ireland, and was loaded with 20 tons of that commodity, and one ton from 9 to 20. Theobald was active in the war that took place when Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair attempted to regain his throne after retiring to the monastery of Cong, as Theobald's men were involved in the death of Donal Mór na Corra Mac Carthaigh during a parley in 1185 near Cork. In 1194 Theobald supported his brother during Hubert's actions against Prince John, with Theobald receiving the surrender of John's supporters in Lancaster. Theobald was rewarded with the office of sheriff of Lancaster, which he held until Christmas of 1198. He was again sheriff after John took the throne in 1199. In early 1200, however, John deprived Theobald of all his offices and lands because of his irregularities as sheriff. His lands were not restored until January 1202. Theobald founded the Abbey of Owney, in the townsland of Abington Irish: Mainistir Uaithne (meaning "the monastery of Uaithne"), of which nothing now remains, near the modern village of Murroe in County Limerick Ireland around 1200. He also founded the Cockersand Abbey in Lancaster, Abbey of Nenagh in County Tipperary, and a monastic house at Arklow in County Wicklow.
Theobald married Maud le Vavasour, heiress of Robert le Vavasour, a baron of Yorkshire, John Lodge in the Peerage of Ireland in 1789 gave the year as 1189, but on no apparent authority, as no other author follows him on this. He died between 4 August 1205 and 14 February 14, 1206, and was buried at Owney abbey. Their children were Theobald le Botiller, 2nd Chief Butler of Ireland and a daughter Maud who married Gerard de Prendergast who had an only daughter who married John de Cogan.