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Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Surrey

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Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey(c. 1137 – 12 July 1203) was an Englishpeer.She was the only surviving heir ofWilliam de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey,and his wife, Adela, the daughter ofWilliam III of Ponthieu.[1][2]

Isabel de Warenne
4rdCountess of Surrey
PredecessorWilliam de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey
SuccessorWilliam de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey
FatherWilliam de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey

Life

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She was the great-granddaughter of the first Norman earl,William,and his Flemish wifeGundred.[2]When her father died in the Holy Land in January 1148 she inherited theearldom of Surreyand was married in around 1153 toWilliam of Blois,the younger son ofKing Stephen,who became earl in her right.[1][2]The marriage occurred at a critical moment inThe Anarchyas part of the king's attempt to control the de Warenne lands.

The couple did not have any children and after William's death in 1159,King Henry II's younger brother,William FitzEmpress,sought her hand in 1162 or 1163, butThomas Becketrefused adispensationfromaffinityon the grounds ofconsanguinity.In April 1164, the countess marriedHamelin of Anjou,a natural half-brother of King Henry, who becamejure uxorisEarl of Surrey. The countess lived an unusually long life, dying at the age of 66.[2]

Family

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She and William of Blois had no children.[1]Isabelle and her second husband Hamelin had four surviving children:

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^abcG. E. Cokayne,The Complete Peerage,Vol. XII/1 (London "The St. Catherine Press, 1953), p. 498.
  2. ^abcdElisabeth van Houts,"The Warenne View of the Past 1066–1203",Anglo-Norman Studies XXVI, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2003,ed. John Gillingham (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004), p. 103.
  3. ^Cokayne,The Complete Peerage,Vol. XII/1 (1953), pp. 500–503.
  4. ^abcCokayne,The Complete Peerage,Vol. XII/1 (1953) p. 500, n. (g).
  5. ^The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal,Vol. 9, Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Bradbury, Agnew and Co., 1886), 300.
  6. ^"The Ancestry of Elizabeth FitzAlan (and her sister Joan FitzAlan) to the 9th generation".Archived fromthe originalon 30 October 2022.Retrieved30 October2022.
Peerage of England
Preceded by Countess of Surrey
1148–1203 		Succeeded by
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