DE WARENNE, William III

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 27 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: 3rd Earl of Surrey

Notes:

He was a great-grandson of King 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. Anglo-Norman nobleman who fought in England during the Anarchy and generally remained loyal to King Stephen. He participated in the Second Crusade.

Birth:
Vermandois, , Normandy, France

Died:
William was killed at the Battle of Mount Cadmus while the crusader army was marching across Anatolia on their way to the Holy Land.

William married DE TALVAS, Adelia in 1134 in Surrey, England. Adelia (daughter of TALVAS, William III and BURGANDY, Helie of) was born in 1124; died on 4 Oct 1174 in Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DE WARENNE, Isabel was born in 1137 in Lewes, Sussex, England; died on 13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, Sussex, England; was buried in Lewes District, Sussex, England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 28 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: 2nd Earl of Surrey
• Name: More often referred to as Earl Warenne or Earl of Warenne than as Earl of Surrey.

Notes:

His father, the 1st Earl, was one of the Conqueror's most trusted and most rewarded barons who, at his death in 1088, was the 3rd or 4th richest magnate in England. In 1088 William II inherited his father's lands in England and his Norman estates including the castles of Mortemer and Bellencombre in Haute-Normandy.

William + VERMANDOIS, Elizabeth of. Elizabeth (daughter of VERMANDOIS, Hugh I of and VERMANDOIS, Adelaide of, daughter of HUGH, I) was born in 1085; died in 1131. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 28 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Leicester

Notes:

Third daughter of Hugh Magnus and Adelaide of Vermandois and as such represented both the Capetian line of her paternal grandfather Henry I of France, and the Carolingian ancestry of her maternal grandfather Herbert IV of Vermandois. As the wife of two Anglo-Norman magnates, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, she is the ancestress of hundreds of well-known families down to the present time.

Elizabeth is reputed to have had an affair and left her first husband when he was near death. The historian James Planché claimed (1874) that the Countess was seduced by or fell in love with a younger nobleman, William de Warenne. There is no evidence that her second husband, William II de Warenne, second earl of Surrey, was that lover and only later rumors that she had a lover at all during her first marriage. William had sought a royal bride in 1093, but failed in his attempt to wed Matilda of Scotland also known as Edith, who later married Henry I,. He obtained a bride of royal blood when he married Elizabeth in 1118, very soon after the death of Earl Robert. Elizabeth survived her second husband William to later die 1131.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 29 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Earl of Surrey

Notes:

A Norman nobleman who created Earl of Surrey under William II Rufus. He is among the few who are documented as having fought for William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. At the time of the Domesday Survey, he held extensive lands in 13 counties including the Rape of Lewes in Sussex, now East Sussex.

William + SURREY, Gundred. Gundred (daughter of WILLIAM, I) died on 27 May 1085; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 29 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Surrey

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Son of King Henry I of France, Hugh was one of the knightly leaders of the First Crusade
• Relation to Me: 29 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Vermandois
• Name: Hugh Magnus or Hugh the Great

Notes:

Died:
He joined the minor Crusade of 1101, but was wounded in battle with the Turks in September, and died of his wounds in October in Tarsus.

Hugh + VERMANDOIS, Adelaide of. Adelaide died in 1120. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Last member of the Carolingian dynasty.
• Relation to Me: 29 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Vermandois

Living + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: King of England
• Name: William the Conqueror

Notes:

A minor at the time of the death of his father duke Robert on a pilgrimage in 1035, William's early years as duke were spent surviving the dangerous period of his minority and solidifying his position within Normandy. He obtained the crown of England by his victory over Harold II in the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066. At his death in 1087, his eldest son Robert received Normandy, his second surviving son William received England, and his youngest son Henry (who eventually obtained both England and Normandy) received money.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 30 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 1031 and 1060; King of the Franks

Notes:

The royal demesne of France reached its smallest size during his reign, and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the weakness of the early Capetians. This is not entirely agreed upon, however, as other historians regard him as a strong but realistic king, who was forced to conduct a policy mindful of the limitations of the French monarchy.

Henry + KIEV, Anne of. Anne (daughter of WISE, Yaroslav the and SWEDEN, Ingegerd Olofsdotter of) was born in 1030; died in 1075; was buried in Villiers Abbey, Le Ferte Alais, Essonne, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 30 GGM
• Name: Anna Yaroslavna, also called Agnes
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 1051 and 1060; Queen consort of the Franks
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 1060 and 1065; Regent of France during the minority of her son, Philip I of France