Biography of William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey -1138

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William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey was born to William Warenne 1st Earl of Surrey and Gundred Countess of Surrey.

On 24th June 1088 [his father] William Warenne 1st Earl of Surrey died at Lewes [Map]. His son William succeeded 2nd Earl Surrey and inherited his estates including Conisbrough Castle [Map].

In 1096 Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan (age 56) and [his future wife] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey (age 11) were married. She by marriage Countess of Leicester. The difference in their ages was 45 years. She the daughter of Hugh "Great" Capet (age 39) and [his future mother-in-law] Adelaide I Countess Vermandois.

Around 25th July 1101 William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey exiled to Normandy [Map].

Battle of Tinchebray

                    On 28th September 1106 King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 38) defeated his older brother Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy (age 55) at the Battle of Tinchebray at Tinchebray, Orne.
                
                    William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan (age 66). Elias La Flèche De Baugency I Count Maine commanded the reserve. The following fought for Henry:
                
                    William "Brito aka Breton" D'Aubigny (age 20).
                
                    Alan Canhiart IV Duke Brittany (age 43).
                
                    Raoul Tosny (age 26).
                
                    William "Pincerna aka Butler" D'Aubigny (age 42).
                
                    Robert Grandesmil (age 28), and.
                
                    William Normandy I Count Évreux.
                
                    Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy was captured and spent the next twenty-eight years in prison; never released.
                
                    William Mortain Count Mortain 2nd Earl Cornwall (age 22) was also captured. He spent the next thirty or more years in prison before becoming a monk. Earl Cornwall forfeit.
                
                    King Edgar Ætheling II of England (age 55) was captured and subsequently released; Henry had married to Edgar's niece Edith aka Matilda Dunkeld Queen Consort England (age 26) in 1100.
                
                    Robert II Belleme 2nd Count Ponthieu 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (age 50) escaped.
                
                    Robert Stuteville was captured.

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Before 1119 William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey (age 33) were married. She by marriage Countess Surrey. She the daughter of Hugh "Great" Capet and Adelaide I Countess Vermandois. He the son of William Warenne 1st Earl of Surrey and Gundred Countess of Surrey.

In 1119 [his son] William Warenne 3rd Earl of Surrey was born to William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and [his wife] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey (age 34).

Around 1120 [his daughter] Ada Warenne Countess Huntingdon and Northumbria was born to William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and [his wife] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey (age 35).

In 1121 [his step-son] Robert Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester (age 17) and Amice Gael Countess Leicester were married. He the son of Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan and [his wife] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey (age 36).

In 1121 [his son] Reginald Warenne was born to William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and [his wife] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey (age 36).

In 1125 [his brother-in-law] Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois and Eleanor Blois were married. She the daughter of Stephen Blois II Count Blois and Chartres and Adela Normandy Countess Blois (age 58). He the son of Hugh "Great" Capet and [his mother-in-law] Adelaide I Countess Vermandois. They were second cousin once removed. She a granddaughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England.

All About History Books

The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

In 1130 [his son-in-law] Roger Beaumont 2nd Earl Warwick (age 28) and [his daughter] Gundred Warenne Countess Warwick were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. She the daughter of William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and [his wife] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey (age 45). He the son of Henry Beaumont 1st Earl Warwick and Marguerite Chateaudun Countess Warwick.

On 13th February 1131 [his wife] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey (age 46) died.

Death of King Henry I

The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Orderic Vitalis. Lastly, this catholic prince besought all persons to preserve peace and protect the poor. Then, after having made his confession, he received penance and absolution from the priests, and receiving extreme unction, and being strengthened by the holy eucharist, commended himself to God, and departed this life on the calends of December [1st December [1135]], being Sunday, early in the night. There were then assembled five counts, Robert of Gloucester (age 36), William de Warrenne, Rotrou of Mortain (age 55), [his former step-son] Waleran of Mellent (age 31), and [his former step-son] Robert of Leicester (age 31),¹ besides several other lords, captains, and noble castellans: all of whom were entreated by Hugh the archbishop, and Ouen, bishop of Evreux, not to forsake their master's corpse unless by common consent, but to conduct it to the sea side, all together, in an honourable escort.

Note 1. Robert, earl of Gloucester, the king's natural son; William de Warrenne, earl of Surrey, probably the third of that name, as his father William had died in the course of the year; Rotrou II., Count du Perche; Waleran, count, or earl, of Mellent; and Robert the Hunchback, earl of Leicester.

Before 1137 [his son] William Warenne 3rd Earl of Surrey (age 17) and [his daughter-in-law] Adela Montgomery Countess of Salisbury and Surrey were married. She the daughter of William "Talvas" Montgomery III Count Ponthieu (age 43) and Helie Burgundy Countess Ponthieu (age 56). He the son of William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and [his former wife] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey. They were third cousin once removed.

On 11th May 1138 William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey died. His son [his son] William (age 19) succeeded 3rd Earl Surrey and inherited his estates including Conisbrough Castle [Map]. [his daughter-in-law] Adela Montgomery Countess of Salisbury and Surrey by marriage Countess Surrey.

The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Orderic Vitalis. Thereupon, the government of Rouen and the district of Caux was committed, by order of the council, to William de Warrenne,¹ who protected the people for some time, much to their advantage. William de Roumare, and Hugh de Gournay,² and other lords-marchers, were directed to defend the borders of the duchy; Robert de Sigillo, and some other clerks³, with Robert de Vere⁴, John Algason⁵, and other English knights, and the guards and officers of the royal household, assembled together, and conducted the king's bier to Caen, by way of Pontaudemer and Bonneville.⁶

Note 1. William III. de Warrenne, earl of Surrey, mentioned just before.

Note 2. William de Roumare, second of that name, also noticed. Hugh III. de Gournai.

Note 3. Robert de Sigillo, &c. These persons were members of the royal chancery. M. Dubois, indeed, the French translator of Ordericus, states in a note, that Robert's name was derived from Sigi in the arrondissement of Neufchétel. But it is evidently a name of office, Robert being chancellor, and wearing the seal of the late king, as M. Le Prevost observes, suspended from his neck.

Note 4. Robert de Ver, or Vere, was the son of Aubrey de Vere, the first of the name, or William de Vere; and consequently brother or cousin-german of Aubrey de Vere II. It is supposed that this family originated at Ver, in the arrondissement of Coutances.

Note 5. John Algason, brother of Guigan Algason, viscount d'Exmes.

Note 6. The funeral procession on this occasion proceeded by land, on the road through Pontaudemer and Bonneville-sur-Touque. Henry of Huntingdon gives a loathsome account of the state of the corpse while it lay in the church of St. Ouen at Caen [Map]. The last honours were not paid to the deceased king till January 6, 1136, when his body was interred at Reading.

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[his son] Ralph Warenne was born to William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey.

[his daughter] Gundred Warenne Countess Warwick was born to William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey.

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