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  • Name Isabel de Warenne 
    Gender Female 
    Died Abt 12 Jul 1203  of Lewes, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Chapter-house, Lewes, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7172  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father William de Warenne,   b. 1119,   d. 19/19 Jan 1147/8, Laodicea, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 29 years) 
    Mother Ela of Ponthieu,   d. 10 Dec 1174 
    Family ID F2836  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hamelin,   d. 7 May 1202, of Lewes, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Abt Apr 1164 
    Children 
     1. William de Warenne,   b. of Lewes, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 May 1240, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2953  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      "ISABEL DE WARENNE, Countess of Surrey, daughter and heiress. She married (1st) WILLIAM OF ENGLAND, Count of Boulogne and Mortain, and, in right of his wife, 4th Earl of Surrey, 2nd but eldest surviving son and heir of Stephen, King of England, by Maud, daughter and heiress of Eustace, Count of Boulogne [see BRABANT 3 for his ancestry]. He was born between 1132-7. They had no issue. He became Count of Boulogne and Mortain on the death of his older brother, Eustache, in August 1153. He was knighted by King Henry II at Carlisle in 1158. At an unknown date, he confirmed the previous gift of his father, King Stephen, to the nuns of Ste.-Marie of Mortain. He died on the Toulouse expedition in October 1159, and was buried in the hospital of Montmorillon in Poitou. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) in 1164 (probably in April) HAMELIN, vicomte of Touraine, and, in right of his wife, 5th Earl of Surrey, Advocate of St. Berlin, illegitimate son of Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy [see ENGLAND 3]. He was half-brother to Henry II, King of England. They had one son, William [6th Earl of Surrey], and three daughters, Maud, Ela, and Isabel. He was present at the Council of Northampton in 1164, and joined in the denunciation of Archbishop Thomas as a traitor. In 1173 he supported King Henry II against his sons. In 1176 he was one of the nobles who escorted Joan, daughter of King Henry II, for her marriage to the King of Sicily. In the period, 1178-1202, Robert de Pormort sold to Hamelin, Earl of Surrey all the fee which the said Robert,held of the earl, in Louveautuit in Normandy for 65 marks and 25 l. of Anjou. He was present at the first coronation of King Richard I in 1189. In the king's absence, he supported the chancellor against the intrigues of the king's brother, John [later King John]. In 1193 he was one of the treasurers for the ransom of King Richard I. At King Richard I's second coronation in 1194, he bore one of the three swords. He was present at the Coronation of King John in 1199. In 1200 he was granted a weekly market at Conisborourgh, Yorkshire. In 1201 strife arose between Hugh, Abbot of Cluny and Hamelin, Earl Warenne concerning the appointment and institution of the Prior of Lewes; the matter was settled by the mediation of Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, Eustace, Bishop of Ely, and Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Justiciar of England. In 1202 he granted the advowson of the church of Leigh, Surrey to the Priory of St. Mary Overy, Southwark. HAMELIN, 5th Earl of Surrey (or Warenne), died 7 May 1202. In 1202-3 his widow, Isabel, granted a virgate of land to Richard son of Robert, of Combe. She was living April 1203, but probably died soon afterwards, possibly 12 July 1203. They were buried in the chapter-house at Lewes.
      Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 43. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 6 (1730): 26-28 (sub Bastards of Anjou). Watson Moms. of the Earls of Warren & Surrey & Their Descs. (1782). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 95-102. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1821): 618; 4 (1823): 573-574 (William, 4th Earl of Surrey, 1st husband of Isabel, styled "kinsman" [cognati mei] by King Henry II); 5 (1826): 72; 6(1) (1830): 172 (Hamelin's charter names his "father" [pains], [Geoffrey], Count of Anjou"). Hunter South Yorkshire 1 (1828): 105 (Warenne ped.). Wainright Hist. & Top. Intro. ... of the Wapentake of Stafford & Tickhill (1829): 162-165,195-196 (Warenne ped.). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 555-558. Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 2(1) (1832): 128 (Warenne ped.). Pertz Chronica et Annales avi Sakti (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores 6) (1844): 514 (Roberti de Monte Cronica [Robert de Torigni]) sub 1164 — marriage of Hamelin & Isabel, Countess of Warenne; Hamelin styled illegitimate brother ["naturalis frateri of King Henry II of England); see also Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 350-351. Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 24 (1845): 584. Desroches Annales militaires et genealogiques du Pegs dAvranches (1856): 107-110. Sussex Arch. Colls. 11 (1859): 84 (Warenne ped.). Stubbs Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis 2 (1867): 80 (Hamelin styled "frater regis Henrici"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13 (1869): 308 (Ex Roberti Abbatis Appendice ad Sigebertum). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 4(2) (1871): 572 (alleges without evidence that Hamelin, Earl of Surrey, had a daughter, Agnes, wife of Jordan de Marisco [Marsh], Knt.). Procs. Soc. of Antiqs. of London 2nd Ser. 6 (1876): 133-135 (charter of Hamelin, Earl Warenne). Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 336-338 (Warren ped.: "Hamelyn brother to Kyng Henry the Second. = The Lady Izabell doughter of William, Ed of Warren & Surrey."). Atkinson Coucher Book of Furness Abbey 1 (Chetham Soc. n.s. 9) (1886): 180 (charter of William, Count of Boulogne). Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 470 (sub Surrey). Round Ancient Charters Royal and Private Prior to 1200 1 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 63-64. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 278 (seal of William, Count of Boulogne and Warenne dated 1146-59 — Obverse. To the right three-quarters. In armour: hauberk, conical helmet, lance and flag in the right hand, and kite-shaped shield, showing interior side on the left hand. Reverse. Small oval counterseal. Impression of an antique oval intaglio gem: an indistinct warrior, with a shield and lance, set in a metal rim, with indistinct legend), 402 (seal of Isabel, Countess of Warenne dated A.D. 1163-1198 — Pointed oval. In tightly-fitting head-dress, girdle, mantle, coronet, in the right hand a fleur-de-lis, in the left hand some indistinct charges. Standing. Legend destroyed.). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire General de l'Ordre des Hopitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem 1 (1894): 558-559. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 73 (Countess Isabel [de Warenne] and her [half] brother, Philip, witnesses to charter of 0., prior of St. Pancras, Lewes); 3 (1900): 241. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 90, 285, 343, 380, 458, 516. Warren Hist. & Gen. of the Warren Fam. (1902). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #37 (charter of William, Count of Boulogne and [Earl] of Warenne dated 1154). MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 175, 180. Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normanclie Introduction (1909): 379 (biog. of Hamelin, Earl of Warenne: "Et tete d'un acte sans date de la meme abbaye [Saint-Bertin], II prend les titres de Hamelinus, Del gratia comes de Waringe et ecdesie Beati Bertini advocatus. Le sceau appendu cette charte porte la legende: SIGILLVM HAMELIN' COMITIS DE SVRREIA; au contre-sceau une tete antique, avec ces mots: PER LEGEM ET PRO LEGE..."). D.N.B. 20 (1909): 819-821 (biog. of Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Warenne or Surrey: "He is rarely, if ever, described by contemporaries as 'Earl of Surrey'."). VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 208-213. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 236-238 (sub Warenne). C.P. 4 (1916): Appendix H, 670 (chart); 12(1) (1953): 497-500 (sub Surrey). Fowler & Hughes Cal. P#re Rolls of Richard I for Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 7) (1923): 210. Salzman Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras of Lewes 2 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 40) (1934): 19-21. Walker Wakefield: Its Hist. & People (1934): 44-60, 152. Landon Itinerary of King Richard I (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 13) (1935): 3-4. Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart facing 1, 1-26; 47-51, esp. 104-105, 110-111, 117-119 (various charters issued by Earl Hamelin which name Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, as his father [pattis mei]). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 49-50, 68-69, 151 (charter of William, Earl of Warenne, Boulogne, and Mortain dated 1153-9). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 128-129. Jenkins Cartulary of Missenden Abbey 3 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 12) (1962): 15-16. NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102. Genealogists' Mag. 16 (1970): 338-341 [outlines Isabel de Warrenne's descents from St. Vladmir (died 1015) and St. Olga]. Ancient Deeds — Ser. A 1 (List & Index Soc. 151) (1978): 89. Ancient Deeds — Ser. A 2 (List & Index Soc. 152) (1978): 51. Harper-Bill Blythbuigh Priory Cartulary 2 (Suffolk Charters 3) (1981): 145 (notification by William, Count of Mortain and Boulogne, Earl of Warenne, dated 1154-9). Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 46 (sub Blois, Troyes, Boulogne). Brown Eye Priory Cartulary & Charters 2 (Suffolk Rec. Soc.) (1994): 28-29. Finucane Miracles & Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England (1995): 114. Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 72, 94, 120, 228 (seal of Isabel, Countess of Warenne dated 1163-1198 — Pointed oval, pink wax varnished brown, originally fine, very indistinct and imperfect. Standing, in tightly fitting headdress, girdle, mantle (?), arms outstretched, in the right hand a fleur-de-lys, in the left some indistinct charges. Legend destroyed; another seal of Isabel, Countess of Warenne dated c.1203 — Pink wax, varnished brown, imperfect in places, originally fine. Standing female figure holding fleur-de-lys in right hand, a bird (hawk?) with jesses in the right. Legend: OMITISS ET. MO). Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 427,520-521 (Talvas ped.). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 297 (chart), 315 (Warenne ped). National Archives, DL 25/342 (confirmation by William, Earl of Boulogne, Mortain, and Warenne, of the exchange made between Ewan, Abbot of Furness, and Michael Fleming) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Children of Hamelin, by Isabel de Warenne:
      i. WILLIAM DE WARENNE, Knt., 6th Earl of Surrey [see next].
      ii. MAUD DE WARENNE, married (1st) HENRI (or HENRY) OF EU, 6th Count of Eu [see EU 6]; (2nd) HENRY DE STUTEVILLE, of Barton (in Fabis) and Bradmore, Nottinghamshire, seigneur of Valmont and Rames in Normandy [see EU 6].
      iii. ELA DE WARENNE, married (1st) ROBERT DE NEWBURGH [see FITZWILLIAM 8]; (2nd) WILLIAM FITZ WILLIAM, of Sprotborough, Yorkshire [see FITZ WILLIAM 8].
      iv. ISABEL DE WARENNE. She married (1st) ROBERT DE LACY (or LACI, LASCI), of Pontefract, Yorkshire, son and heir of Henry de Lacy. They had no issue. He attended the Coronation of Richard I in 1189. He confirmed his father's gift in Snydale (in Normanton), Yorkshire to Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, and added three carucates of land in this vill. He also gave the vill of Rishton (or Rushton), Lancashire to the same abbey. At an unknown date, he gave Accrington, Lancashire to Kirkstall Abbey, in compensation for the loss of Cliviger, Lancashire. He was also a benefactor of Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire. ROBERT DE LACY died 21 August 1193, and was buried at Kirkstall Abbey. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) before 1196 GILBERT DE L'AIGLE, of Pevensey, Sussex, Greywell, Hampshire, Westcote (in Dorking) and Witley, Surrey, etc., seigneur of l'Aigle in Normandy, son and heir of Richer III de l'Aigle, of Pevensey, Sussex, seigneur of l'Aigle in Normandy, by his wife, Odeline (or Edeline). They had three sons, Gilbert, Richer, and William, and one daughter, Alice (wife of John de Lacy, Knt., Constable of Chester, 1st Earl of Lincoln). He went to Normandy shortly before 1200. In Michaelmas term 1200 his wife, Isabel, complained before the justices of the bench that Roger, Constable of Chester, had disseised her of dower given her by her former husband, Robert de Lacy. Gilbert's lands were seized in 1204 because of his opposition to King John. In 1207 William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, gave 3000 marks to have custody of his lands for the use of his sister, Gilbert's wife. In 1208 he had a partial restitution of his lands, but appears to have fallen off again. In 1216 the king sent him a message, urging him to return to fealty, and offering to restore all his lands if he did so. In April 1226 he had license to pass to and from Normandy. In Sept. 1226 his English lands were taken into the king's hands, possibly as a pledge for his loyalty to King Henry III. His lands were restored the following spring on payment of a fine of 500 marks. His wife, Isabel, was a legatee in the 1228 will of Richard de Elmham, Canon of St. Martin le Grant, London, who bequeathed her a box for sacred ceremonial objects. In 1229 he founded the Priory of the Holy Trinity at Michelharn, Sussex. In 1230 he accompanied the king on his expedition to France. The same year Juliane de Pevensey arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Gilbert de l'Aigle regarding a tenement in Hailsham, Sussex; in 1232 Juliane was amerced 10s. for a false claim. Gilbert was a benefactor of Chaise-Dieu Abbey and Saint-Sulpice Priory, and also confirmed the gifts of his predecessors to Trappe Abbey. GILBERT DE L'AIGLE died shortly before 19 Dec. 1231. On 16 Jan. 1232 his widow, Isabel, was assigned dower out of Gilbert's lands in Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire. At an unknown date, his wife, Isabel, received one-third of the manor of Northease (in Rodmell), Sussex from her brother, William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, in exchange for lands in Yorkshire. She gave this one third interest in frank almoin to Michelham Priory. Isabel died without surviving legitimate issue shortly before 30 Nov. 1234. In Dec. 1234 the king granted all the lands late of Gilbert de l'Aigle, with the advowsons of churches, services of knights, and free men to Gilbert Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Hasted Hist. & Top. Survg of Kent 3 (1797): 203-210. Boothroyd Hist. of the Ancient Borough of Pontefract (1807): 68. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 533-534 (Historia Laceiorum), 535 (undated charters of Robert de Lacy; one charter names his wife, Isabel), 537 (undated charter of Robert de Lacy; charter names his father, Henry de Lacy); 6(1) (1830): 494-495 (foundation charter of Michelham Priory issued by Gilbert de l'Aigle; wife Isabel named in charter); 6(2) (1830): 912 (charter of Gilbert, seigneur of Aigle; charter names his parents, Richer and Edeline, and his brother, Richer). Wainright Hist. & Top. Intro, of the Wapentake of Stafford & Tickhill (1829): 166-167,195-196 (Warenne ped.). Parry Hist. & Desc. Account of the Coast of Sussex: Brighton (1833): 258-259. Vaugeois Hist. des Antiqs. de la Ville de l'Aigle & de ses Environs (1841): 275-285 (biog. of Gilbert de l'Aigle). Jackson Hist. of Barnsley (1858): 22. Roberts Calendarium Genealogicum 1 (1865): 94-95. Arch. Jour. 24 (1867): 340-344 (will of Richard de Elmham). Old Yorkshire 5 (1884): 237. C.C.R. 1333-1337 (1898): 369. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 17, 70, 498 (W[illiam] de Laigle styled nephew of Earl Warenne). Salzman Hist. of the Parish of Hailsham (1901): 214. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 45, 49-50, 68,71-72. CCh.R. 1 (1903): 191. C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 8, 26, 96, 248-249, 361, 366, 458, 470, 486, 498. Lancaster & Baildon Coucher Book of the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstall (Thoresby Soc. 8) (1904): 3,51-52 (undated charter of Robert de Lacy), 146, 196-197 (undated charter of Robert de Lacy; wife Isabel named in charter). Colman Hist. of Barwick-in-Elmet (Moresby Soc. 17) (1908): 106-107. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 76-79. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 61-69,141-150. Rye Some New Facts as to the Life of St. Thomas a Becket (1924): 63. C.P. 7 (1929): 676-680 (sub Lincoln). Flower Introduction to the Curia Regis Rolls 1199-1230 (Selden Soc. 62) (1944): 127,244. Stenton Pleas before the King or His Justices 1198-1202 1 (Selden Soc. 67) (1948): 104-105, 155, 322. Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): 21-22, 233-234. Painter Reign of King John (1949). VCH Leicester2 (1954): 52-53. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 3: 1-5 (sub Aigle). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 136-137. Wightman Lacy Fam. in England & Normandy 1066-1194 (1966): 16, 63, 85, 95. Curia Regis Roll,- 15 (1972): 84-86. VCH Sussex 2 (1973): 77-80; 7 (1940): 69-73. Thompson Lords of Laigle: Ambition & Insecurig on the Borders of Normandy (Anglo-Norman Studies 18) (1996): 177-199. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 452,482 (de l'Aigle ped.).
      Child of Isabel de Warenne, by Gilbert de l'Aigle:
      a. ALICE DE L'AIGLE, married JOHN DE LACY, Knt., of Pontefract, Yorkshire, hereditary Constable of Chester [see LACY 3].
      v. ___ DE WARENNE (daughter), mistress of John, King of England [see ENGLAND 5].* Child of ___ de Warenne, by John, King of England:
      a. RICHARD FITZ ROY (otherwise DE WARENNE, also styled DE CHILHAM), of Chilhatn, Kent, married ROSE DE DOVER [see ATHOLL 9].
      * The mother of King John's illegitimate son, Richard Fitz Roy, is identified by the 13th Century chronicler, Robert of Gloucester, as the "erles doughter of wareine" [that is, the daughter of the Earl of Warenne]. Contemporary records lend support for this parentage, as Richard Fitz Roy was styled as an adult as "Richard de Warenne" [see, for example, Curia Regis Rolls 16 (1979): 232 ("Ricardus de Warenn' filius regis Johannis"), 450 ("Ricardus de Warein"); Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 2 (1844): 523]. Richard Fitz Roy also used the surname Warenne on his personal seal [see Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 640]. Richard Fitz Roy's maternal grandfather, Hamelin, Earl of Warenne, had three known daughters, Maud, Ela, and Isabel, conceivably any one of whom could have been Richard's mother. Richard Fitz Roy, however, occurs in two contemporary records listed side by side Isabel's 2nd husband, Gilbert de l'Aigle [see C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901), page 70; C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 357-362]. Richard also had a daughter named Isabel, but none named Maud or Ela. These pieces of evidence may be considered a good indication but not conclusive evidence that Richard Fitz Roy was the son of Isabel de Warenne."