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This part of our family tree traces the descendants of the Seigneur de Varrene through William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey who accompanied Duke William of Normandy in 1066 to Isabel Plantagenet who married Magna Charta Surety Roger Bigod. Isabel's brother, William de Warren, 6th Earl of Surrey, was named in the Magna Charta as an Advisor to King John.
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Generation One
Rudolf I Seigneur de Varrene
Born circa 998
Died before 1059
Rudolf married to Beatrix de Vascoeuil (1020 - 1059),
a daughter of Vicomte Tesselin of Rouen and a niece of Gunnor of Crêpon,
wife of Richard I "the Fearless", 3rd Duke of Normandy.
Rudolf and Beatrix had a son:
Generation Two
Rudolf II de Warenne
Rudolf married to Emma and they had a son:
Generation Three
William de Warenne, 1st Earl
of Surrey who accompanied Duke William in 1066 and was present at the Battle
of Hastings.
Died on June 24, 1088 at Pevensey, Sussex
William married before 1077 to Gundred
who died on May 27, 1085; and was a daughter or perhaps a sister of Gherbod the Fleming.
(See
Fredrick Lewis Weis: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore,
1999, Line 158-1, George Andews Moriarty: The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1985, page 184 and the sources quoted therein.)
| Gundred was said by Sir Bernard Burke and possibly others as well to
have been a daughter of William
the Conqueror and his wife Mathilda of Flanders, but this has been
disproved.
(See Burke: Dormant and Extinct Peerages, 1866, pages 568 and 569; C.T.Clay: Early Yorkshire Charters and H. Prentout Études sur Quelques Points de l'Histoire de Guillame le Conquérant as described under Surrey in The Complete Peerage.) |
Generation Four
William de Warenne, 2nd Earl
of Warren & Surrey
Died on May 11, 1138
William married to Isabel (also Elizabeth) de Crépi
of Vermandois, daughter of Hugh
"the Great" de Crépi, Count of Vermandois and his wife Adelaide
de Vermandois.
William and Isabel had the following children:
Generation Five
William de Warenne, 3rd Earl
of Warren & Surrey
Born: 1119
Died on January 19, 1148 at Laodicea in the Holy Land
while on crusade.
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and the merciless sun on the way to Jerusalem. |
in modern Lebanon |
William married to Ela Talvas and they had a daughter:
Generation Six
Isabel de Warenne
Born circa 1136
Died on July 12, 1203
Isabel married in April 1164 to Hamelin Plantagenet of
Anjou.
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for his descent.
Isabel and Hamelin had the following children:
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