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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM DE WARENNE, of Wormegay and Narborough, Norfolk, Plumpton, Sussex, Harthill, Yorkshire, etc., son and heir. He married (1st) BEATRICE ___, said to be the daughter of Hugh de Pierrepont. They had one son, Reynold, and two daughters, Beatrice and Isabel. At Michaelmas 1180 he rendered account of 300li. for fines made by his father and by his mother for the land of Wormegay, and smaller sums due from his father. In 1186 he agreed with Samson, Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds to recognize 60s. rent and 2000 eels as frankalmoin of the abbey in his mills of Wormegay, Norfolk. In 1191 he quitclaimed the advowson of the church of Harthill, Yorkshire to Lewes Priory, in exchange for that of Portslade, Sussex. He also gave the priory land in Brighton, Sussex, in exchange for the mill of Newhaven, which his father had previously granted the priory. He was a king's justice, serving as a justice itinerant and at Westminster from 1192 onwards. He held a part of the honour of Gloucester in custody, 1192-6. He served as a justice of the Jews, 1200-8. He occurs as a witness to several charters of Kings Richard I and John. He married (2nd) in 1203 MILICENT ___, widow of Richard de Montfitchet. They had no issue. At an unknown date, he gave the Priory of Southwark 60 acres of land in Foots Cray, Kent called Wadeland, together with his body for burial. WILLIAM DE WARENNE died shortly before Michaelmas 1209. His wife, Milicent, was living 18 March 1234/5.
Watson Memoirs of the Ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey 1 (1782): 66-76. Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 127-128 (biog. of William de Warenne). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 2 (1908): 5. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 109-113. Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart opp. 1, 26-35.”
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