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Alice de Lusignan

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  • Name Alice de Lusignan 
    Gender Female 
    Died 9/09 Feb 1255/6 
    Person ID I7332  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family John de Warenne,   b. Abt 1231, of Lewes, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Sep 1304, Kennington, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 73 years) 
    Married Aug 1247 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2957  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “JOHN DE WARENNE, Knt., 7th Earl of Surrey, of Lewes, Sussex, Reigate, Surrey, Grantham and Stamford, Lincolnshire, Conisbrough, Yorkshire, etc., Constable of Bamburgh, Hope, and Pevensey Castles, Warden of the Maritime Parts, cos. Surrey and Sussex, 1295, Joint Warden north of Trent, 1295, justice itinerant, son and heir by his father's 2nd marriage, born in or after August 1231. He married in August 1247 ALICE (or ALIX) DE LUSIGNAN, daughter of Hugues [X] le Brun (or de Lusignan), Count of La Marche and Angoulême, seigneur of Lusignan, Château-Larcher, Montreuil-Bonnin, and la Mothe-Saint-Heray de Lusignan, by Isabel, widow of John, King of England [see ENGLAND 5], and daughter and heiress of Ademar Ill Taillefer, Count of Angoulême [see ENGLAND 5 for her ancestry]. Alice was the uterine half-sister of King Henry III of England [see ENGLAND 6]. They had one son, William, Knt., and two daughters, Eleanor and Isabel. By an unknown noblewoman, he had also two illegitimate sons, [Master] John [Vicar of Dewsbury, York, Rector of Dorking, Surrey and Fishlake, Yorkshire, Prebendary of Thockrington, living 1330] and [Master] William (Rector of Hatfield, Yorkshire, living 1314). He was with Edward, Prince of Wales, in Gascony in 1254, and knighted with him in Spain. In 1255 he joined the other nobles in their resistance to the influx of foreigners into England. In Sept. 1255 he was instructed to escort the King of Scotland to the King. His wife, Alice, died 9 Feb. 1255/6. In 1257 he accompanied Richard, Earl of Cornwall, King elect of the Romans, to Almain. In 1260 he went overseas in the service of Prince Edward. He joined Simon de Montfort and Prince Edward with many of the magnates in 1263. He was in the prince's army at the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264, whence he and the king's brothers fled to Pevensey, subsequently crossing to France. In 1265 he fought at the Battle of Evesham under Prince Edward. He was in joint command of the royalist forces at Chesterfield in 1266. In 1266 he quitclaimed to the Prior and Convent of Lewes his right to the advowson of the church of Dewsbury, Yorkshire. In 1267 he received a pardon for excesses committed in the recent time of disturbance. He took the cross 24 June 1268, though it does not appear that he went on crusade. In May 1270 the king granted him a writ to recover certain parcels of land which belonged to David de Ashby in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, together with the wardship of Isabel, daughter of Stephen, son and heir of the said David de Ashby, against Alan la Zouche, Knt. and Ellen his wife, who the earl said unlawfully occupied the land. In July 1270 he quarrelled in Westminster Hall with Alan la Zouche, Knt. and attacked him so violently that he died on 10 August following, his son escaping with difficulty. The earl fled to his castle at Reigate, Surrey, pursued by Prince Edward, and begged for mercy. On 4 August 1270 he was pardoned upon his agreeing to pay a substantial sum to the king. On 20 Nov. 1272, four days after the king's death, he swore allegiance to Prince Edward, then on his way home from a crusade. The Earl was one of the guardians of the realm until his return. In 1274-5 John d'Eiville arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against him touching the manor of Greetwell, Lincolnshire. In the same period, John son of Gilbert de Cokerington arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against him touching possessions in North Kynton and Covenham, Lincolnshire. In the same period, Simon le Franceis and others arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Helpringham, Lincolnshire. In 1277-8 William Foliot and Isabel his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Ellen widow of Alan la Zouche and John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, touching a tenement in Ashby, Northamptonshire. He was summoned to serve against the Welsh in 1277 and 1294, and against the Scots, 1291, 1297, and 1300. He was heir c.1282 to his sister, Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, by which he inherited the patronage of Marham Abbey, Norfolk, which abbey was founded by his sister in 1251. In 1282 the king granted him the land of Bromfield and Yale, together with the Castle of Dinas Bran in Denbighshire. In 1290 he was going as the king's envoy to Scotland. In 1291 he was appointed Keeper of Scotland. He defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar 27 April 1296. On 3 Sept. 1296 he was appointed Keeper of the realm of Scotland. In August 1297 the Scots attacked his advance guard, under Henry de Percy, but were repelled; but on 10 Sept. the Earl was defeated with great slaughter at Stirling, and fled to Berwick, which he abandoned and lost. In Dec. 1297 he was appointed Captain of the army to oppose the invading Scots; in Jan. and Feb. 1297/8 he marched into Scotland. He commanded the rear-guard at the Battle of Falkirk 22 July 1298. In 1300 he commanded the second division at the Siege of Caerlaverock. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301 as Comes Warenne. SIR JOHN DE WARENNE, 7th Earl of Surrey, died testate at Kennington, near London, about 29 Sept. 1304. He and his wife, Alice, were buried before the high altar at Lewes Priory, Sussex.
      Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 3 (1728): 75-81 (sub Lezignem); 6 (1730): 26-28 (sub Bastards of Anjou). Watson Mems. of the Earls of Warren & Surrey & Their Descs. (1782). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 95-102. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 743-744. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 130-136 (biog. of John, Earl Warren), 137 (Henry de Percy styled "nevou" [i.e., grandson] of [John de Warenne], Earl of Surrey by 312 author of Carlaverock Poem). Wainright Hist. & Top. Intro. of the Wapentake of Stafford & Tickhill (1829): 170-176, 195-196 (Warenne ped.). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 555-558. Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 24 (1845): 584. Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 505-507 (biog. of John de Warenne). Sussex Arch. Colls. 2 (1849): 26 (Lewes Priory Annals sub A.D. 1255: "... post ea in octavis Purificationis Beate Marie [10 Feb. 1255/6] obiit Comitissa Alicia et posita est in terra ante magnum altare in presencia fratris sin Adelmari electi Wyntoniensis."); 6 (1853): 107-128. Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes 4th Ser. 2 (1856): 537-545. Greenwood Early Ecclesiastical Hist. of Dewsbury (1859): 97-100, 220. Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Chartes 2 (1866): 498-499 (Alice styled "Aleaidi" in charter dated March 1242-3 issued by her parents). Delisle "Chronologie Hist. des Comtes de la Marche" (Bull. Société Archéologique et Hist. de la Charente) 4th Ser. 4 (1867): 3-16. Matthew of Paris Matthæi Parisiensis Monachi Sancti Albani Historia Anglorum 3 (Rolls Ser. 44) (1869): 25 ("Ælesia Pictavensis, soror uterina domini regis"). Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 394. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 675. Genealogist 4 (1880): 50-58. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 336-338 (Warren ped.: "John Erl Waren son of William maryed = Ales doughter to Kyng John, syster to Henry 3."). Stubbs Chrons. of the Reigns of Edward I & Edward II 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1882): 133 (Annales Londoniensis sub A.D. 1304: "Eodem anno, circiter festum Exaltationis Sanctæ Crucis, obiit comes Warenniæ apud Newentone; et ibi corpus suum et ossa requiescebant usque in crastinum Sancti Andreæ proximo sequentis; in ecclesia Sancti Pancratii Lewensi fuit sepultus; archiepiscopus Cantuariensis celebravit missam et fecit officium pro defuncto."). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 118, 132, 241, 257; 45 (1885): 237, 323; 46 (1886): 264, 272, 285; 47 (1886): 141, 145, 202, 230, 313, 353. Bright Hist. of Dorking (1884): 67. Procs. Soc. of Antiqs. of London 2nd Ser. 10 (1885): 342-343 (charter and seal of John Earl Warenne dated 1276). Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 471-472 (sub Surrey), 479 (sub Sussex). La Porta Les Gens de Qualité en Basse-Marche 1(2) (1886): 1-60 (Généalogie de Lusignan). Baigent Coll. of Recs. & Docs. Rel. Crondal 1 (1891): 410-411. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 412 (James de Brus [?Brewes intended] styled "kinsman of the Earl of Warenne"); 2 (1895): 11. Rigg Select Pleas, Starrs, etc., of the Jewish Exchequer 1220-1284 (Selden Soc. 15) (1901): 62. Salzman Hist. of the Parish of Hailsham (1901): 214. Warren Hist. & Gen. of the Warren Fam. (1902). VCH Surrey 1 (1902): 344-348 ("... a turbulent, probably selfish, and not very capable man"). Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 3-4 (biog. of John de Warenne). Scots Peerage 1 (1904): 7 (sub Kings of Scotland). Cal. IPM 2 (1906): 382-383. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 9 (1907): 188-189. D.N.B. 20 (1909): 821-825 (biog. of John de Warenne). Arch. Cambrensis 6th Ser. 7(1) (1907): 1-34. Yorkshire Arch. Jour 20 (1909): 369-446. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 236-238 (sub Warenne). C.P. 4 (1916) Appendix H, 670 (chart); 12(1) (1953): 503-507 (sub Surrey); 12(2) (1959): 934 (sub Zouche) (corrects date of assault on Alan la Zouche). C.C.R. 1251-1253 (1927): 171, 361 (instances of Alice styled "king's sister"). Cam Hundred & the Hundred Rolls (1930): 274, 280-282. Johnstone Letters of Edward Prince of Wales 1304-1305 (1931): 1, 2 [(John), Earl of Warenne, styled "uncle" by Edward, Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward II)]. CCR. 1254-1256 (1931): 47, 262 (instances of Alice styled "king's sister"). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 2(1) (1832): 128 (Warenne ped.). Moor Knights of Edward I 5 (H.S.P. 84) (1932): 160-162. Salzman Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras of Lewes 2 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 40) (1934): 19-21. Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): 176-177 [cites Ancient Deeds - Ser. A 1 (List & Index Soc. 151) (1978): (A.313 and A.314) (sometime after their mother's death in 1240, John de Warenne's older half-brother, Ralph le Bigod, Knt., of Settrington, Yorkshire released a messuage in Thorne and Bailie, Yorkshire to him)]. Lamborn Armorial Glass of the Oxford Diocese (1949): 91. Snellgrove Lusignans in England (1950). Winchelsey Reg. Roberti Winchelsey 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 51(2)) (1952): 646-647; 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 52) (1956): 1153. Clay York Minster Fastii 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 124) (1959): 75. Emden Biog. Reg. of the Univ. of Oxford 3 (1959): xlv-xlvi (biog. of John de Warenne). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 128-129. Coat of Arms 7 (1962): 95. Jones Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541 6 (1963): 102-104. Wagner Hist. Heraldry of Britain (1972): 46 (arms of John de Warenne: Chequy or and azure). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln n.s. 3(4) (1989): 816 (sub Lusignan). English Yorkshire Hundred & Quo Warranto Rolls (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 151) (1996): 176-178. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 264-271. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 447-448 (arms of John de Warenne: Cheeky or and azure; he sealed with these arms in 1301). Greenway Fasti Ecclesæ Anglicanæ 1066-1300 6 (1999): 101-102. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): opp. 1 (chart). Nottinghamshire Archives: Savile of Rufford: Deeds & Estate Papers, DD/SR/10/96, letters patent granted 1282 at request of John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, king's cousin, to John de Eland (E,lland) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
      Children of John de Warenne, Knt., by Alice de Lusignan:
      i. WILLIAM DE WARENNE, Knt. [see next].
      ii. ELEANOR DE WARENNE, married HENRY DE PERCY, Knt. of Topcliffe, Yorkshire [see PERCY 7].
      iii. ISABEL DE WARENNE, married JOHN DE BALLIOL, Knt., King of Scots, Lord of Galloway [see BALLIOL 6.i].”