Elizabeth Isabelle de Vermandois

• Preferred Name: Elizabeth Isabelle de Vermandois^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]}
  
• Alternate Name: de Warenne
  
• Gender: F
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Countess of Surrey with note: data standardization
  
• Royal House: with note: Description: Capet
  
• FSID: MXWH-HJ8
  
• Death: 1131 in Sens, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France at LATI: N6.6266 LONG: E0.8652
  
• Nickname:
  
• Birth: 1081 in Normandy, France at LATI: N8.928 LONG: E0.5326 with note: standardized
  
• Title (Nobility): 1107 with note: Description: Countess of Leicester
  
• Title (Nobility): 1118 with note: Description: Countess of Surrey
  
• Burial: AFT 13 FEB 1131 in Lewes Priory, Seine-Et-Oise, France at LATI: N8.7685 LONG: E0.0824
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Elizabeth of Vermandois (c. 1085 – 1131) was a French noblewoman, who by her two marriages was the mother of the 1st Earl of Worcester, the 2nd Earl of Leicester, the 3rd Earl of Surrey, and of Gundred de Warenne, mother of the 4th Earl of Warwick.
  
  It is believed that she was the source of the famous chequered shield of gold and blue (or and azure) adopted at the dawn of the age of heraldry (in England circa 1200–1215) by her brother and originating before the middle of the 12th century,[1] as did only two other groups of allied English shields, the Mandeville-de Vere "quarterly shields" and the de Clare "chevron shields".[2]
  
  Origins
  She was the third daughter of Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (1057–1102) ("Hugh Magnus/Hugh the Great"), the younger son of King Henry I of France. Her mother was Adelaide of Vermandois[3] the daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adele of Valois. Elizabeth thus represented both the Capetian line of her paternal grandfather King Henry I of France, and the Carolingian line of her maternal grandfather Herbert IV of Vermandois.[4]
  
  First marriage
  
  Chequy or and azure, the famous proto-heraldic coat of arms of Elizabeth of Vermandois (possibly first adopted by her brother Ralph, Count of Vermandois, as shown on his seal[2]), which she transmitted in differenced forms to her offspring
  She was the wife successively of two Anglo-Norman magnates, firstly of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan (d.1118), by whom she had twin sons, and secondly of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (d.1138), by whom she had a further son and a daughter Gundred de Warenne.
  
  In 1096 Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1118) reputed to be the "wisest man in his time between London and Jerusalem" insisted, in defiance of the laws of the Church, on marrying the very young Elizabeth,[5] he being over fifty at the time.[6] In early 1096 Bishop Ivo, on hearing of the proposed marriage, wrote a letter forbidding the marriage and preventing its celebration on the grounds of consanguinuity, i.e. that the two were related within prohibited degrees.
  
  In April 1086 Elizabeth's father was able to convince Pope Urban to issue a dispensation for the marriage,[6] and departed on the Crusade preached by that pope, his last act being to see his daughter married to Robert.
  
  Robert was a nobleman of some significance in France, having inherited lands from his maternal uncle Henry, Count of Meulan. He gained renown fighting in his first battle, in command of the right wing, at the Battle of Hastings as one of the Proven Companions of William the Conqueror.[7][8] He was rewarded with ninety manors in the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and Wiltshire.[9] The count of Meulan was one of Henry I's "four wise counsellors and was one of the king's commanders at the Battle of Tinchebray" 28 September 1106.[10] In 1107 Robert became Earl of Leicester.[11]
  
  By de Beaumont she had three sons (the eldest of whom were twins) and five or six daughters as follows:[12]
  
  Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (born 1104, twin), married and left issue.[12]
  Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester, Count of Meulan (born 1104, twin), married and left issue.[12]
  Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (born c. 1106), lost his earldom, left issue.[12]
  Emma de Beaumont (born 1102),[13] betrothed as an infant to Aumari de Montfort, nephew of William, Count of Évreux, but the marriage never took place. She probably died young, or entered a convent.[14]
  Adeline de Beaumont (b c. 1107), who married firstly, Hugh IV, 4th Lord of Montfort-sur-Risle, and secondly, Richard de Granville (d. 1147), lord of the manor of Bideford in Devon.[12]
  Aubree de Beaumont (b c. 1109) (or Alberee), who married Hugh II of Châteauneuf-en-Thimerais.[12]
  Maud de Beaumont (b c. 1111), who married William Lovel.[12]
  Isabel de Beaumont (b Aft. 1102), a mistress of King Henry I of England.[15] She first married Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke,[12] and later married Hervé de Montmorency, Constable of Ireland.[16]
  
  Second marriage
  Elizabeth is reputed to have had an affair and left her first husband when he was near death. The historian James Planché claimed (1874) that she was seduced by or fell in love with a younger nobleman, William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey,[13] whom she married. However the evidence for such Elizabeth having had an affair is lacking. William had sought a royal bride in 1093, but failed in his attempt to wed Matilda of Scotland (also known as Edith), who later married King Henry I.[17] He married Elizabeth in 1118, very soon after the death of Robert.[18] Elizabeth survived her second husband.[3][19]
  
  By William de Warenne she had three sons and two daughters:[20]
  
  William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey (1119–1148),[20] eldest son and heir;
  Ralph de Warenne[20]
  Reginald de Warenne, who inherited his father's lands in Upper Normandy, including the castles of Bellencombre and Mortemer.[21] He married Alice de Wormegay, daughter of William de Wormegay, Lord of Wormegay in Norfolk, by whom he had a son: **William de Warenne, founder of Wormegay Priory.[21]
  Gundred de Warenne (or Gundrada), who married firstly Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick (c.1102-1153) (the nephew of her mother's first husband) and had issue William de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Warwick (c.1140-1184); secondly she married William de Lancaster, feudal baron of Kendal in Westmorland, and had issue.[20]
  Ada de Warenne (d. ca. 1178), who married Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, younger son of King David I of Scotland, and had issue.[22] She is known as the "Queen mother of Scotland" for her two sons, Malcolm IV, King of Scotland and William I 'the Lion', King of Scotland, as well as being the ancestor of numerous other Scottish kings.
  
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  Elizabeth Isabel Vermandios Beaumont - Find-a-grave
  Third daughter of Hugh Magnus and Adelaide of Vermandois, granddaughter of King Henry I of France and Anne of Kiev, Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois, and Adele of Valois. She was the heiress of the cou
  
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  Elizabeth de Vermandois was the daughter of Hugh de Crépi, Comte de Vermandois et de Valois and Aelis de Vermandoi
  
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  === Wikipedia Biography ===
  Elizabeth of Vermandois, or Elisabeth or Isabel de Vermandois (c. 1085 – 1131), was the third daughter of Hugh Magnus and Adelaide of Vermandois, and as such represented both the Capetian line of her paternal grandfather Henry I of France, and the Carolingian ancestry of her maternal grandfather Herbert IV of Vermandois.
  As the wife of two Anglo-Norman magnates, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, she is the ancestress of hundreds of well-known families down to the present time. She is the ancestress of all Scottish rulers including and after her grandson Malcolm IV and all English rulers starting with Henry IV.
  
  In 1096, Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan reputed to be "the wisest man in his time between London and Jerusalem" insisted, in defiance of the laws of the church, on marrying a very young Elizabeth, he being over fifty at the time. In early 1096 Bishop Ivo, on hearing of the proposed marriage, wrote a letter banning the marriage and preventing its celebration on the grounds the two were related within prohibited degrees. In April of that year Elizabeth's father count Hugh left on Crusade, his last act being to see his daughter married to count Robert. The crusader was able to convince Pope Urban to issue a dispensation for the marriage which then went forward.
  
  Her husband was a nobleman of some significance in France, having inherited lands from his maternal uncle Henry, Count of Meulan, and is known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings as a companion of William the Conqueror. He was rewarded with ninety manors in the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and Wiltshire. The count of Meulan was one of Henry I's "four wise counsellors and was one of the king's commanders at the Battle of Tinchebray" 28 September 1106. In 1107 Robert became Earl of Leicester.
  
  Countess of Surrey
  Elizabeth, Countess of Meulan is reputed to have had an affair and left her husband when he was near death. The historian James Planché claimed (1874) that the Countess was seduced by or fell in love with a younger nobleman, William de Warenne. There is no evidence that her second husband, William II de Warenne, second earl of Surrey, was that lover and only later rumors that she had a lover at all during her first marriage. William had sought a royal bride in 1093, but failed in his attempt to wed Matilda of Scotland also known as Edith, who later married Henry I. He obtained a bride of royal blood when he married Elizabeth in 1118, very soon after the death of Earl Robert. Elizabeth survived her second husband William to later die 1131.
  
  Family
  By her first husband, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, (d 5 June 1118), Elizabeth had three sons (including twin elder sons) and five or six daughters:
  1. Lady Emma de Beaumont (born 1102), betrothed as an infant to Aumari de Montfort, nephew of William, Count of Évreux, but the marriage never took place. She probably died young, or entered a convent.
  2. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (born 1104), married and left issue.
  3. Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester (born 1104), married and left issue.
  4. Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (born c. 1106), lost his earldom, left issue.
  5. Lady Adeline de Beaumont (b ca 1107), married firstly, Hugh IV, 4th Lord of Montfort-sur-Risle, and secondly, Richard de Granville of Bideford (d. 1147).
  6. Lady Aubree (or Alberee) de Beaumont (b ca 1109), married Hugh II of Châteauneuf-en-Thimerais.
  7. Lady Maud de Beaumont (b ca 1111), married William Lovel.
  8. Lady Isabel de Beaumont (b Aft. 1102), a mistress of King Henry I of England. She first married Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and later married Hervé de Montmorency, Constable of Ireland.
  
  By her second husband, William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, Elizabeth had three sons and two daughters:
  1. William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey
  2. Ralph de Warenne
  3. Reginald de Warenne, who inherited his father's property in upper Normandy, including the castles of Bellencombre and Mortemer. He married Alice de Wormegay, daughter of William de Wormegay, Lord of Wormegay in Norfolk, by whom he had a son, William de Warenne (founder of the priory of Wormegay).
  4. Lady Gundred (Gundrada) de Warenne, who married firstly, Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick and had issue, and secondly, William de Lancaster and had issue.
  5. Lady Ada de Warenne (d. ca. 1178), who married Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, younger son of King David I of Scotland, and had issue. She is known as the "Queen mother of Scotland" for her two sons, Malcolm IV, King of Scotland and William I 'the Lion', King of Scotland, as well as being the ancestor of numerous Scottish kings.
  
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  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) DE VERMANDOIS, married (1st) in early 1096 ROBERT OF MEULAN (or DE BEAUMONT), Knt.,* Count of Meulan, seigneur of Beaumont, Pont-Audemer, Brionne, and Vatteville (all in Normandy), son and heir of Roger de Beaumont, seigneur of Pont Audemer, Brionne, la Haye-Aubrée, Sahuz, Tourville, Vieilles, etc., chatelain of Beaumont-le-Roger, by Adeline (or Aline), daughter of Waleran (or Galeran) [I], Count of Meulan. He was born about 1046. They had three sons, Waleran (or Galeran) [II] [Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester], Robert, Knt. [1st Earl of Leicester], and Hugh [said to be Earl of Bedford], and five daughters, including Adeline (wife of Hugues IV, seigneur of Montfort-sur-Risle), Aubrey (wife of Hugues II, seigneur of Châteauneuf), Maud, and Isabel (or Elizabeth). When he was very young, he accompanied William, Duke of Normandy [future King William], to England and distinguished himself at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. He subsequently received large grants of land in Warwickshire, with smaller holdings in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Wiltshire. Sometime in the period, 1066-77, Robert and his father, Roger, attested a royal confirmation for St.-Etienne, Caen. As "Robert de Beaumont," he witnessed a charter of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [half-brother of King William the Conqueror] dated probably in 1079. In 1080 he and his father were present at the king's court in Normandy. Robert became Count of Meulan about autumn 1080, following the death of his maternal uncle, Hugues II, Count of Meulan. As "Robert, Count of Meulan," he attested a charter of King Philippe I of France dated 6 Jan. 1082 following the Christmas court of King Philippe I in 1081. He was back at the Norman ducal court on 5 Sept. 1082, where he joined his father and brother as witnesses to a suit adjudicated in the presence of King William the Conqueror. About 1088 he quarreled with Duke Robert of Normandy about the castellanship of Brionne, in consequence of the exchange of Brionne for Ivry made by his father. He was present at the ducal court in 1087, 1088, 1089, 1091, and on three further occasions during the early 1090s. In 1097, when King William Rufus invaded France, he admitted him to his castle of Meulan. He was present at the king's death in 1100. On the accession of King Henry I, he supported Henry in the general rising which followed and became his trusted counsellor. On the death of Ives de Grandmesnil on Crusade, he retained his estates, which Ives had mortgaged to him about 1102. Thereby he acquired one-quarter of the town of Leicester, the whole of which was later granted to him by the king. After obtaining the whole town of Leicester, he is said to have become Earl of Leicester, but being already Count of Meulan, he was never so styled. In 1103 he was dispatched by King Henry on a mission to Normandy. The same year he betrothed his infant daughter to Amaury, youngest son of Simon de Montfort, as part of a treaty to end conflicts amongst the "warlike marchers." In 1104 he was one of the Norman barons who adhered to King Henry on his arrival in Normandy. He was present in the king's army at the Battle of Tenchebrai in 1106. In 1110 he was besieged at Meulan by King Louis VI, who took the castle by storm. In the following year he retaliated by a raid on Paris, which he plundered. In 1112 he gave the manor of Chisenbury, Wiltshire for the kitchen of the monks of Bec Abbey. ROBERT OF MEULAN, Count of Meulan, died 5 June 1118, and was buried in the chapter-house of the Abbey of St.-Pierre, Preaux. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 2nd Earl of Surrey (usually styled Earl of Warenne), son and heir of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, by his 1st wife, Gundred, sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester. They had three sons, William [3rd Earl of Surrey], Ralph, and Reynold, and two daughters, Ada and Gundred. In 1090 he was among those fighting in Normandy against Robert de Belleme who was supported by Duke Robert. He witnessed three charters of the king at Windsor in Sept. 1101. In autumn 1101 he accompanied Duke Robert to Normandy, supporting him against the king, and was deprived of his inheritance in England. In 1103, however, as a result of the duke's intercession, he was restored to the earldom of Surrey by the king. In 1106 he accompanied the king to Normandy, and commanded a division of his army at the Battle of Tinchebrai. In 1109 he was present at a council held at Nottingham. In 1110 he was with the king at Dover, becoming a surety for the performance of the treaty with Robert, Count of Flanders. In 1111 he was one of the optimates who acted in a judicial capacity in a plea in Normandy; about that time he was given the castle of Saint-Saens by the king, which had been forfeited by Elias de Saint-Saens. In 1119 he commanded a division at the Battle of Brémule. In 1131 he was present a the council at Northampton. He was one of the earls present at the death of King Henry I 1 Dec. 1135. The same month he was given the administration of the region of Rouen and the pays de Caux. He was present at the court of King Stephen at Easter 1136. William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, died 11 May 1138, and was buried at his father's feet in the chapter-house at Lewes, Sussex. His widow, Isabel, was living c.1138. She died 13 (or 17) February, sometime before June 1147, when her son, William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey, left on crusade.
  (* The latest datable document that Robert attests as "Robert de Beaumont" is a charter of King William the Conqueror for Lessay dated 14 July 1080. Robert acquired the county of Meulan shortly thereafter and thenceforth always attested with his comital title [see Vaughn Anselm of Bec & Robert of Meulan (1987): 88]. There is no evidence that either Robert or his male descendants used the name "de Beaumont" after the year 1082, when Robert first occurs as Robert, Count of Meulan.)
  Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 414 (Mellent-Newburgh ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 49-51 (two undated charters of William, 2nd Earl of Warenne to Castleacre Priory), 51 (undated charter of W[illiam] Earl of Warenne and Countess Isabel his wife, and their sons, William and Ralph, to Castleacre Priory), 51 (undated charter of Isabel, Countess of Warenne, to Osmund le Despenser); 6(2) (1846): 1113 (charter of William de Warenne and his wife, Isabel, and their sons, William and Ralph, to Bellencombe Priory dated 1135; charter names Isabel's son, Waleran, Count of Meulan). Taylor Annals of St. Mary Overy (1833): 91 (undated charter of William de Warenne and Countess Isabel his wife to the Monastery of St. Mary de Overy). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 ([Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois] sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Guilmeth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d’Elbeuf (1842): 393-467. Arch. Jour. 3 (1847): 1-26 (re. parentage of Gundred, wife of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey). Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 102-103 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan). Sussex Arch. Colls. 11 (1859): 84 (Warenne ped.). Delisle & Passy Mémoires et Notes de M. Auguste le Prevost 2 (1864): 491 (charter of Morin du Pin granted with consent of the Count of Meulan and Countess Elisabeth). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 288-289. Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 38 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868):34-35. Coll Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Academy 15 (1879): 457-458 (Letter of Bishop Ivo dated at beginning of A.D. 1096: "Ivo, Dei gratia Camotensis episcopus, clericis Mellentis Perlatum est ad aures nostras quod Mellentinus comes ducere velit in uxorem filiam Hugonis Crispeiensis comitis; quod fieri non sinit concors descretorum et canonum sanctio, dicens: (Conjunctiones consanguineorum fleri prohibernus). Horum autem consanguinitas nec ignota est, nec remota, sicut testantur et probare parati sunt praedari viri de eadem sari prosapia. Dicunt enim quia Gualterius Albus genuit matrem Gualeranni comitis, qui genuit matrem Roberti comitis. Item supradictus Gualterius genuit Radulphum patrem alterius Radulfi, qui genuit Vemiandensem comitissam, ex qua nata eat uxor comitis Hugonis, cujus filiam nunc ducere vult Mellentinus comes."). Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS XIII (1881): 251-256: (Genealogiæ scriptoris Fusniacensis: "Nunc ad Hugonem Magnum revertamur. Hugo cognomento Magnus, frater Philippi regis Francorum, de Adelaide comitissa Veromandensium genuit Radulfum comitem Veromandie et Henricum de Chauni et Simonem episcopum Noviomensem et filias. De quarum una Bonefacius marchio genuit Bonefacium archidiaconum Noviomensem et filios et filias; quarem una nupsit Guilelmo de Monte-pessulano. Secunda filia Hugonis Magni ex Radulfo de Baugenci peperit Simonem eiusdem loci principem. Tercia filia ex Ioifrido de Firmitate-Galceri genuit uxorem Simonis de Oisiaco. Quarta filia nupsit comiti de Meslent, cui peperit filios, quorum unus successit path in comitatu, alter vero comitatem tenuit de Cirecestre [recte Leicester]."). Arch. Jour. 41(1884): 300-312. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 64-66 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan: "[He] is distinctly stated by Orderic to have been created earl of Leicester (‘inde consul in Anglia factus’). But of this the Lords' committee found no evidence (3rd Report on the Dignity of a Peer, p. 133). Nor does he appear to have been so styled ..."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 463 (Ex Obituario Ecclesiæ Ebroicensis: "6 Jun. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Mellenti
  
  === She was the Countess of Leicester. In he ===
  She was the Countess of Leicester. In her article Dowager Countesses (Anglo-Norman Studies XVII, p. 90) and their remarriages, RaGena De Aragon says: "No one remarried as swiftly as Isabel de Vermandois. At most a few days after the death of her first husband Robert de Beaumont, count of Meulan and later earl of Leicester, Isabel wed William II de Warenne, earl of Surrey. Henry of Huntingdon salaciously reports that she ran off with William while Robert lay dying; it is more likely that William seized the earliest legal opportunity to secure a noble, fertile (and willing?) bride. After all, he had lost a bid to marry Edith, daughter of St Margaret and Malcolm king of Scots, to Henry I. Isabel bore William at least five children before his death twenty years later. Between her two marriages she was married over forty-two years, gave birth to at least thirteen children, and outlived two husbands."
  
  Although Weis gives a death date of February 13, 1131, apparently Isabel did outlive her second husband, though the date is uncertain (CP VII:526; CP XII:496).
  
  Isabel was twice married; first to Robert de Bellomont, Earl of Liecester, and then to William, 2nd Earl Warren as shown above.
  
  === Elizabeth of Vermandois, or Elisabeth or ===
  Elizabeth of Vermandois, or Elisabeth or Isabel de Vermandois (ca. 1081 ? 13 February 1131), was a niece of Philip I of France who was twice married to influential Anglo-Norman magnates.
  
  Elizabeth of Vermandois was the third daughter of Hugh Magnus and Adelaide of Vermandois, and as such represented both the Capetian line of her paternal grandfather Henry I of France, and the Carolingian ancestry of her maternal grandfather Herbert IV of Vermandois. Her father was a younger brother of Philip I of France.
  
  In 1096, while under age (and probably aged 9 or 11), Elizabeth married Robert de Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester. Meulan was over 35 years her senior, which was an unusual age difference even for this time period. He was a nobleman of some significance in France, having inherited lands from his maternal uncle Henry, Count of Meulan, and had fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 under the command of his distant kinsman William the Conqueror. For this service, he was awarded English lands in addition to those in Meulan and Normandy he had inherited. However, at the time of the marriage, he held no earldom in England while his younger brother was already styled Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick. Meulan was a respected advisor to three reigning monarchs: William II of England, Robert Curthose of Normandy and Philip I of France.
  
  According to Middle Ages custom, brides were often betrothed young - 8 being the legal age for betrothal and 12 for marriage (for women). The young betrothed wife would often go to her husband's castle to be raised by his parents or other relatives and to learn the customs and ways of her husband's family. The actual wedding would not take place until much later. Some genealogists speculate that the usual age at which a noble bride could expect the marriage to be consummated would be 14. This is consistent with the date of birth of Elizabeth's first child Emma in 1102 when she would be about 15 to 17.
  
  The marriage produced several children, including most notably two twin sons (born 1104) who both become important noblemen. These men, known to historians of this period as the Beaumont twins, were Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and his younger twin Robert Bossu (the Humpback) or Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. Another notable child of this marriage was Elisabeth or Isabel de Beaumont, one of the youngest mistresses of Henry I of England and later mother (by her first marriage) of Richard Strongbow.
  
  William II of England died suddenly in a purported hunting accident, and was hastily succeeded not by the expected heir but by the youngest brother Henry. This seizure of the throne led to an abortive invasion by the older brother Duke Robert of Normandy, followed by an uneasy truce between the brothers. The reprieve was only temporary, and there was unrest in both England and Normandy for some time (stirred up by Duke Robert, and by an exiled nobleman Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury). Finally, Henry invaded Normandy and in the Battle of Tinchebray (September 28, 1106) destroyed organized opposition to his takeover of Normandy and imprisoned his ineffectual older brother for his lifetime. Meulan and his brother Warwick were apparently supporters of Henry during this entire period, and Meulan was rewarded with the earldom of Leicester in 1103. By 1107, Meulan was in possession of substantial lands in three domains. In 1111, he was able to revenge himself on the attack on his seat Meulan by Louis VI of France by harrying Paris.
  
  Elizabeth, Countess of Meulan apparently tired of her aging husband at some point during the marriage. The historian Planche says (1874) that the Countess was seduced by or fell in love with a younger nobleman, William de Warenne (c. 1071-11 May 1138) himself the thwarted suitor of Edith of Scotland, Queen consort of Henry I of England. Warenne was said to want a royal bride, and Elizabeth fitted his requirements, even though she was also another man's wife.
  
  In 1115, the Countess was apparently carried off or abducted by Warenne, which abduction apparently concealed a long-standing affair. There was some kind of separation or divorce between Meulan and his wife, which however did not permit her to marry her lover. The elderly Count of Meulan died, supposedly of chagrin and mortification in being thus publicly humiliated, in the Abbey of Preaux, Normandy on 5 June 1118, leaving his properties to his two elder sons whom he had carefully educated.
  
  Elizabeth married, secondly, William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, sometime after the death of her first husband. By him, it is alleged, she already had several children (all born during her marriage to Meulan). She also had at least one daughter born while she was living out of wedlock with Warenne (1115-1118). It is unclear whether this daughter was Ada de Warenne, wife of Henry of Scotland or Gundrede de Warenne, wife of Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick (her half-brothers' first cousin).
  
  The later life of Elizabeth de Vermandois is not known. Her sons by her first marriage appear to have a good relationship with their half-brother William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey although on opposing sides for much of the wars between Stephen and Matilda. Her eldest son Waleran, Count of Meulan was active in supporting the disinherited heir William Clito, son of Robert Curthose until captured by King Henry. He was not released until Clito's death without issue in 1128. Her second son Robert inherited his father's English estates and the earldom of Leicester and married the heiress of the Fitzosbern counts of Breteuil. Her daughter Isabel however became a king's concubine or mistress at a young age; it is unclear whether her mother's own life or her eldest brother's political and personal travails in this period played any part in this decision. Before her mother died, Isabel had become wife of Gilbert de Clare, later (1147) Earl of Pembroke, so had adopted a more conventional life like her mother.
  
  From the collection of Jerry Dean Ferren.
  
  She was the Countess of Leicester. In her article Dowager Countesses (Anglo-Norman Studies XVII, p. 90) and their remarriages, RaGena De Aragon says: "No one remarried as swiftly as Isabel de Vermandois. At most a few days after the death of her first husband Robert de Beaumont, count of Meulan and later earl of Leicester, Isabel wed William II de Warenne, earl of Surrey. Henry of Huntingdon salaciously reports that she ran off with William while Robert lay dying; it is more likely that William seized the earliest legal opportunity to secure a noble, fertile (and willing?) bride. After all, he had lost a bid to marry Edith, daughter of St Margaret and Malcolm king of Scots, to Henry I. Isabel bore William at least five children before his death twenty years later. Between her two marriages she was married over forty-two years, gave birth to at least thirteen children, and outlived two husbands."
  
  Although Weis gives a death date of February 13, 1131, apparently Isabel did outlive her second husband, though the date is uncertain (CP VII:526; CP XII:496).
  
  Isabel was twice married; first to Robert de Bellomont, Earl of Liecester, and then to William, 2nd Earl Warren as shown above.
  
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  Countess of Leicester
  Isabel (or Elizabeth), widow of Robert (DE BEAUMONT), COUNT OF MEULANand 1st EARL OF LEICESTER (died 5 June 1118), daughter of Hugh DECRÉPI (styled "the Great"), COUNT OF VERMANDOIS (younger son of HENRYI, KING OF FRANCE), by Adelaide, daughter and heir of Herbert, COUNTOF VERMANDOIS and VALOIS. Isabel survived him and with the consent ofher son the 3rd Earl gave the church of Dorking to Lewes priory. Shedied probably before July 1147. [Complete Peerage XII/1:495-6,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  Note: According to Ancestral Roots, Isabel preceeded William in deathin 13 Feb 1130/31--not July 1147.
  
  Ancestral File Number: 8XJB-1D
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.27, 40;
  
  === !Europasche Stamtafeln neue folge vol 3 ===
  !Europasche Stamtafeln neue folge vol 3 tafel 55;
  
  === GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Elizabeth Isa ===
  GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Elizabeth Isabel
  
  DEATH: Also shown as Died Saint-nicaise De Meulan Priory, Chartres, France.
  
  DEATH: Also shown as Died Saint-nicaise De Meulan Priory, Chartres, France.
  
  BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Lewes Priory, Seine-et-Oise, France.
  
  GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Elizabeth Isabel

• m. 1095 in France

1. Reginald de Warenne Lord Of Wormgay, b. 1123 in Vermandois, Aisne, Picardie, France     d. 1179 in Wormegay, Norfolk, England
2. Agnes de Warenne, b. ABT 1120 in Long Lawford, Warwickshire, England     d. 1204 in Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
3. Gundred de Warenne, b. ABT 1117 in Downham West, Norfolk, England     d. ABT 1179 in Whitchurch, Devon, England
4. Ada de Warenne, b. 1120 in Lewes Castle, Sussex, England     d. 6 DEC 1178 in Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
5. Guillaume de Warenne, b. JUN 1118 in Cherbourg-Octeville, Manche, Lower Normandy, France     d. 19 JAN 1148 in Laodicea on the Lycus, Asia Minor (Turkey)

• m. 1096

1. Robert de Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester, b. 1093 in Eure, Normandy, France     d. 5 APR 1168 in Castle at Brackley, Northamptonshire, England
2. Isabel de Beaumont Countess of Pembroke, b. 7 NOV 1102 in Leicester the Castle View, Leicestershire, England     d. 6 JAN 1172 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom
3. Emma de Beaumont, b. ABT 1102 in Leicestershire, England     d. ABT 1157 in Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
4. Waleran de Beaumont 1st Earl of Worcester, b. 1104 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile De France, France     d. 10 APR 1166
5. Mathilde de Beaumont, b. 1114 in Leicester, Leicestershire, , England     d. ABT 1189 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England
6. Adeline de Beaumont, b. ABT 1097 in Beaumont, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France     d. ABT 1178 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England

1. Title: Robert de Meulan (1046-1118), The Peerage [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 5, pg. 40-41 online gives children and 10 sources
   Publication: Name: https://www.thepeerage.com/p10774.htm#i107737;
   Note: Robert de Beaumont in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 5, pg. 40-41 [See document in the Memories section] Robert de Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester was born circa 1046.2 He was the son of Roger de Beaumont, Seigneur de Portaudemer and Adeline de Meulan.3 He married Elizabeth de Vermandois, daughter of Hugh de Crépi, Comte de Vermandois et de Valois and Aelis de Vermandois, Comtesse de Vermandois, in 1096.2 He died on 5 June 1118.4 He gained the title of Comte de Meulan, in France.5,6 He gained the title of 1st Earl of Leicester.7 Children of Robert de Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth de Vermandois
   Page: Robert de Beaumont in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 5, pg. 40-41 [See document in the Memories section]
   
2. Title: Elizabeth of Vermandois (1085 – 1131) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_Vermandois,_Countess_of_Leicester
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_Vermandois,_Countess_of_Leicester;
   Note: Elizabeth of Vermandois (c. 1085 – 1131) (or Isabel), was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman, who by her two marriages was the mother of the 1st Earl of Worcester, the 2nd Earl of Leicester, the 3rd Earl of Surrey, and of Gundred de Warenne, mother of the 4th Earl of Warwick. She was the third daughter of Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (1057–1102) ("Hugh Magnus/Hugh the Great"), the younger son of King Henry I of France. Her mother was Adelaide of Vermandois[3] the daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adele of Valois. She was the wife successively of two Anglo-Norman magnates, firstly of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan (d.1118), by whom she had twin sons, and secondly of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (d.1138), by whom she had a further son and a daughter Gundred de Warenne. Died 13 February 1131 References[edit] ^ Jump up to: a b Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4, (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1989), Tafel 699 ^ Jump up to: a b Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1, Herzogs und Grafenhäuser des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Andere Europäiche Fürstenhäuser (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 55 Jump up ^ David Starr Jordan, 'The Inbred Descendants of Charlemagne: A Glance at the Scientific Side of Genealogy', The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 6, (December 1921), p. 481 ^ Jump up to: a b Edmond Chester Waters, 'Gundrada de Warenne', The Archaeological Journal, Vol. xli (London, 1884), p. 308-9 Jump up ^ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. XII/1 (The St. Catherine Press, London, 1953), Appendix L, pp. 47–8, Appendix L, The Battle of Hastings and the Death of Harold (List of those known to be at the Battle of Hastings) Jump up ^ David C. Doulgas, William the Conqueror (University of California Press, 1964), p. 203 Jump up ^ J. R. Planché, The Conqueror and His Companions, Vol. I (Tinsley Bros., London, 1874) p. 206 Jump up ^ C. Warren Hollister, Henry I (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2003) pp. 132–3, 199–200 Jump up ^ K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, a Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066–1166 (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1999), p. 371 ^ Jump up to: a b J. R. Planché, The Conqueror and His Companions, Vol. I (Tinsley Bros., London, 1874) p. 212 Jump up ^ C. Warren Hollister, Henry I (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2003)p. 340 Jump up ^ C. Warren Hollister, 'The Taming of a Turbulent Earl: Henry I and William of Warenne', Historical Reflections, Vol. 3 (1976) p. 90 n. 36 Jump up ^ G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. XII/1 (The St. Catherine Press, London, 1953) p. 496 ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. VII (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd, 1929), p. 540 Jump up ^ J. R. Planché, The Conqueror and His Companions, Vol. I (Tinsley Bros., London, 1874) p. 216 Jump up ^ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. VII (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd, 1929), p. 526, footnote (c) Jump up ^ Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, Bol. II, No. 1, (1854), p. 311 ^ Jump up to: a b c d William Farrer, Charles Travis Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, Volume VIII – The Honour of Warenne (The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1949) p. 10 ^ Jump up to: a b William Farrer, Charles Travis Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, Volume VIII – The Honour of Warenne (The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1949) pp. 27–8 Jump up ^ William Farrer, Charles Travis Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters, Volume VIII – The Honour of Warenne (The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1949) p. 11 Jump up ^ Victoria Chandler, 'Ada de Warenne, Queen Mother of Scotland (c. 1123–1178)', The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 60, No. 170, Part 2 (October 1981), pp. 119–139
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3. Title: Robert de Beaumont in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~ http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#RobertBeaumontLeicesterdied1118A [See document in the Memories section]
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/107008609;
   Note: Robert de Beaumont in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~ http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#RobertBeaumontLeicesterdied1118A [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Robert de Beaumont in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~ http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#RobertBeaumontLeicesterdied1118A [See document in the Memories section]
   
4. Title: Isabel Vermandois Beaumont de Warenne, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-TJ33 : 1 June 2022), Isabel Vermandois Beaumont de Warenne, ; Burial, Lewes, Lewes District, East Sussex, England, Lewes Priory; citing record ID 49615771, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-TJ33;
   
5. Title: Isabel Vermandois Beaumont de Warenne (1081-1131), "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-TJ33 : 1 June 2022), Isabel Vermandois Beaumont de Warenne, ; Burial, Lewes, Lewes District, East Sussex, England, Lewes Priory; citing record ID 49615771, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKJ-TJ33;
   Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49615771/isabel-beaumont_de_warenne Isabel Vermandois Beaumont de Warenne BIRTH 1081 Basse-Normandie, France DEATH 17 Feb 1131 (aged 49–50) France BURIAL Lewes Priory Lewes, Lewes District, East Sussex, England MEMORIAL ID 49615771 Countess of Leicester, Countess of Surrey. Third daughter of Hugh Magnus and Adelaide of Vermandois. Wife of Sir Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, the son of Roger de Beaumont and Adeline of Meulan; Isabel became the Countess of Leicester. They married about 1096 and had three sons and at least five daughters. Secondly, the wife of William de Warenne, son of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey and his first wife Gundred; Isabel became the Countess of Surrey. They married in 1118 and had three sons and two daughters.
   
6. Title: Isabel de Vermandois (1081-1147), Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
   Author: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p161.htm#i4832 index to pedigrees [citations]
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p161.htm#i4832;
   Note: Isabel de Vermandois [1,2,3] Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 F, #4832, b. 1081, d. before 17 February 1147 Father Hugh Magnus, Prince of France, Duke of France & Burgundy, Marquis d'Orleans, Comte d'Amiens, Chaumont, Paris, Valois, & Vermandois [2,4] b. c 1057, d. 18 Oct 1101 Mother Adelheid de Vermandois [4] b. c 1065, d. bt 28 Sep 1120 - 28 Sep 1124 Charts Some Descendants of Charlemagne Isabel de Vermandois was born in 1081 at Vermandois, Normandy, France. She married Sir Robert de Bellomont, Comte de Meulan, Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger, Pont-Audemer, Brionne, & Vatteville, son of Roger de Beaumont, Seigneur de Pont Audemer, Brionne, la Haye-Aubrée, Sahuz, Tourville, & Vieilles and Adeline de Meulan, in 1096; They had 3 sons (Waleran II, Comte de Meulan, Earl of Worcester' Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Leicester; & Hugh, Earl of Bedford) & 5 daughters (including Adeline, wife of Hugues IV, Seigneur de Montfort-sur-Risle; Aubrey, wife of Hugues II, Seigneur de Chateauneuf; Maud, wife of William Lovel, Seigneur d'Ivri; & Isabel, wife of Gilbert FitzGilbert, Earl of Pembroke, & of Ralph Bluet). [3] Isabel de Vermandois married William de Warenne, Earl of Warren & Surrey, son of William de Warren, 1st Earl of Surrey, Seigneur de Varennes and Gundred of England, after 5 June 1118; They had 3 sons (William, 3rd Earl of Surrey; Ralph; & Reynold) & 2 daughters (Ada, wife of Henry, Earl of Northumberland; & Gundred, wife of Roger, 2nd Earl of Warwick, & William de Lancaster). [2,3] Isabel de Vermandois died before 17 February 1147 at St. Nicaise, Meulan, D-Sens, France. [3] Family 1: Sir Robert de Bellomont, Comte de Meulan, Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger, Pont-Audemer, Brionne, & Vatteville b. c 1046, d. 5 Jun 1118 Children: Mathilde Beaumont+ [5,3] d. a 1189 Adeline de Beaumont+ Alberee de Beaumont [6] Agnes de Beaumont [6] Isabel Beaumont+ [3] b. c 1100 Waleran de Beaumont, Comte de Meulan, Earl of Worcester, Seigneur de Beaumont-le-Roger, Brionne, la Crois St.-Leufroy, Elbeuf, Port-Audemer, & Vatteville+ [3] b. c 1104, d. 10 Apr 1166 Sir Robert 'the Hunchback' Bellomont (Blanchmain), 2nd Earl Leicester, Justiciar of England, Seigneur de Bréteuil, Lire, & Gloz+ [7,3] b. 1104, d. 5 Apr 1168 Family 2: William de Warenne, Earl of Warren & Surrey b. 1071, d. 10 May 1138 Children: Gundred de Warren+ [3,8] b. c 1117, d. a 1166 William de Warren, 3rd Earl of Surrey+ [3,9] b. c 1119, d. 19 Jan 1148 Ada de Warren+ [2,3] b. c 1120, d. 1178 Reginald de Warenne, Sheriff of Sussex+ [10,3] b. c 1126, d. a 29 Sep 1179 Citations: 1. [S826] Unknown author, Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists by F. L. Weis, p. 121. 2. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 578. 3. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 270-271. 4. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 267. 5. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 623-624. 6. [S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. III, Tafel 700. 7. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 557. 8. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 318. 9. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 303. 10. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 246.
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7. Title: Gilbert and Richard de Clare in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm;
   Note: Earls of Pembroke in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Earls of Pembroke in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm [See document in the Memories section]
   
8. Title: The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
   Author: Lundy, Darryl, ed. (Wellington, New Zealand; Site updated on 18 Dec 2022. darryl@thepeerage.com: http://www.thepeerage.com/s1.htm.) Elizabeth de Vermandois, ID #104653:
   Publication: Name: http://www.thepeerage.com/p10466.htm#i104653;
   
9. Title: Beaumont Family Pedigree in Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. 4, pg. 429-430 [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. 4, pg. 429-430
   Note: Beaumont Family Pedigree in Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. 4, pg. 429-430 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Beaumont Family Pedigree in Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. 4, pg. 429-430 [See document in the Memories section]
   
10. Title: MATHILDE de Vermandois in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
    Author: NORTHERN FRANCE: VALOIS, VEXIN & VERMANDOIS: Chapter 3. COMTES de VERMANDOIS: B. COMTES de VERMANDOIS 1080-1214 (CAPET): HUGUES de France: 4. ISABELLE
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfravalver.htm#Elisabethdied1131;
    Note: Hughes de France, Comte de Vermandois, and Adelais de Vermandois in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfravalver.htm#HuguesIdied1102 [See document in the Memories section] Comte Hugues & his wife had [nine] children: 1. MATHILDE de Vermandois (-after [1130]) ... . m (1090) as his second wife, RAOUL Seigneur de Baugency, son of LANCELIN Seigneur de Baugency & his wife --- (-[1130]).
    Page: Hughes de France, Comte de Vermandois, and Adelais de Vermandois in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfravalver.htm#HuguesIdied1102 [See document in the Memories section]
    
11. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: ROBERT de Beaumont "le Bossu"
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#RobertBeaumontLeicesterdied1168B;
    Note: 2. ROBERT de Beaumont "le Bossu" (1104-[4/5] Apr 1168, bur Leicester Abbey). Twin with Waléran. He and his twin brother were brought up at the court of Henry I King of England[1531]. He succeeded his father in 1118 as Earl of Leicester. He supported King Stephen during the civil war with Empress Matilda. Henry Duke of Normandy restored property to "Rodberto filio comitis Legrec…Rodberti comitis" held by "patris sui…sicut comes Rodbertus de Mellend avus suus…Willelmus de Britolio", and granted him the property of "Willelmus de Pasci in Anglia et in Normannia" by charter dated to [Jan/Aug] 1153, witnessed by "…Guarino filio Geraldi, Henrico duo fratre…"[1532]. He became Steward of England and Normandy under King Henry II in 1154, and acted as Viceroy during the king's absence from England Dec 1158 to 25 Jan 1163 and again in 1165[1533]. Robert of Torigny records the death in 1168 of "Robertus comes Leecestriæ"[1534]. The necrology of the abbey of Saint-Denis records the death "Non Apr" of "Robertus comes Leecestrie"[1535]. The necrology of Saint-Nicaise de Meulan records the death of "Robertus comes Leicestrie", undated but among other deaths listed in early April[1536]. The necrology of Garendon abbey (Leicestershire) records the death “pridie Non Apr...in die Sancti Ambrosii” of “Robertus comes Leyc fundator huius abbatie”, a later passage indicating that he was buried “in monasterio abbatie Leyc” which he had also founded[1537]. The necrology of Lyre monastery records the death "5 Apr" of "Robertus comes Legrecestriæ"[1538]. m (after 25 Nov 1120) AMICE de Gaël, heiress of Breteuil, daughter of RAOUL Seigneur de Gaël et de Montfort & his wife --- (-31 Aug [1168 or after], bur Eton). She is named by Orderic Vitalis, who also names her father and specifies that her marriage was arranged by Henry I King of England after she had been betrothed to his deceased son Richard[1539]. She is said to have become a nun at Nuneaton after her husband's death[1540]. The necrology of the abbey of Saint-Denis records the death "II Kal Sep" of "Amicia comitissa Leecestre"[1541]. The necrology of Garendon abbey (Leicestershire) records the death “pridie Non Apr...in die Sancti Ambrosii” of “Robertus comes Leyc fundator huius abbatie”, and “die Sancti Egidii abbatis” of “Amicia uxor eiusdem Roberti” and her burial “in monasterio prioratus monialium de Etona”[1542]. The necrology of Lyre monastery records the death "31 Aug" of "Robertus comes Leicestriæ, Amicia comitissa"[1543]. Earl Robert & his wife had four children: a) ISABELLE de Beaumont (-after 1188). b) ROBERT de Beaumont "ès Blanchemains" (-Durazzo 1190). c) HAVISE de Beaumont (-24 Apr or 25 May 1197). d) MARGUERITE de Beaumont ([1125]-after 1185).
    Page: Robert de Beaumont in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~ http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#RobertBeaumontLeicesterdied1118A [See document in the Memories section]
    
12. Title: Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 for William De Warenne
    Author: Ancestry.com Mitchell family tree
    Publication: Name: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61175/images/colonialfamiliesv-003809_482?pId=67631;
    
13. Title: Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, in The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 145-147 [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 145-147
    Note: Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, in The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 145-147 [See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, in The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 145-147 [See document in the Memories section]
    
14. Title: Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (1040-1118), Wikipedia [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Beaumont,_1st_Earl_of_Leicester
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Beaumont,_1st_Earl_of_Leicester;
    Note: Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Beaumont,_1st_Earl_of_Leicester [See document in the Memories section] Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan (c. 1040/1050 – 5 June 1118), also known as Robert of Meulan, was a powerful Norman nobleman, one of the very few proven Companions of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, and was revered as one of the wisest men of his age. Robert was born between 1040 and 1050, the eldest son of Roger de Beaumont (1015–1094) by his wife Adeline of Meulan (died 1081), a daughter of Waleran III, Count de Meulan, and was an elder brother of Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick (c. 1050–1119). When his mother died in 1081, Robert inherited the title of Count of Meulan in Normandy. He was created Earl of Leicester in 1107. Robert de Beaumont was buried at the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Préaux in Normandy. In 1096, he married Elizabeth (or Isabel) de Vermandois, daughter of Hugh Magnus (1053–1101) and Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois (1050–1120).
    Page: Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Beaumont,_1st_Earl_of_Leicester [See document in the Memories section]
    
15. Title: Book - Women & Gender in Medieval Times
    Author: Google Books
    
16. Title: Wurts,John S.,Magna Charta Part 1& 2 ,Brookfield Publishing Co.,Philadelphia,Pa.,Pub. Date 1942 ( Reprint 1945 )
    Author: Longview,Texas Library Ref# Gen 929 WUR
    Note: Pg-192 states ,Isabel is wife of William de Warren 2nd husband Pg-185 states ,Isabel is wife of Robert de Beaumont 1st husband Pg-205 states, Ada Warren is the daughter, and William is the son who died in the holy Land about 1147
    Page: Facts about Isabel
    
17. Title: William II de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106868 [See document in the Memories section]
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    Note: William II de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106868 [See document in the Memories section]
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18. Title: Elizabeth De Vermandois, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGVB-GBGR : 1 August 2020), Countess Leicester,Surry, ; Burial, Lewes, Lewes District, East Sussex, England, Lewes Priory; citing record ID 184568006, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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    Note: Maintained by: Anne Shurtleff Stevens; Originally Created by: Jerry Ferren; Added: 12 Mar 2010; Find a Grave Memorial ID: 49615771
    
19. Title: Book - Magna Charta Barons
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20. Title: Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extint Peerages, pg. 42 [See document in the memories section]
    Author: Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extint Peerages, pg. 42
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21. Title: William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey - wiki
    Author: William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey. (2020). Retrieved 4 February 2020, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_2nd_Earl_of_Surrey.
    Note: William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to searchFor other people with the same name, see William de Warenne (disambiguation).William de Warenne Died 11 May 1138 Resting place Lewes Priory, Sussex, England Title 2nd Earl of Surrey Tenure 1088–1101 and 1103–1138 Nationality Norman Spouse(s) Elizabeth of Vermandois Parents William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey Gundrada Predecessor William de Warenne, 1st Earl of SurreySuccessor William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (died 11 May 1138) was the son of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey and his first wife Gundred. He was more often referred to as Earl Warenne or Earl of Warenne than as Earl of Surrey.[1] Contents 1Life 2Family 3Ancestry 4References 5Sources 6External linksLife[edit] His father, the 1st Earl, was one of the Conqueror's most trusted and most rewarded barons who, at his death in 1088, was the 3rd or 4th richest magnate in England.[2] In 1088 William II inherited his father's lands in England and his Norman estates including the castles of Mortemer and Bellencombre in Haute-Normandy. But William II was not as disposed to serve the king as his father was.[2] In January 1091, William assisted Hugh de Grandmesnil (died 1094) in his defence of Courcy against the forces of Robert de Belleme and Duke Robert of Normandy.[3] In 1093 he attempted to marry Matilda (or Edith), daughter of king Malcolm III of Scotland.[4] She instead married Henry I of England, and this may have been the cause of William's great dislike of Henry I, which motivated him in the following years.[5] When Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy invaded England 1101 William joined him.[6] But when Curthose promptly surrendered to Henry I, William lost his English lands and titles and was exiled to Normandy.[6] There he complained to Curthose that he had expended great effort on the duke's behalf and in return lost all of his English possessions. Curthose's return to England in 1103 was apparently made to convince his brother, the king, to restore William's earldom. This was successful, though Curthose had to give up his 3000 mark annual pension he had received after the 1101 invasion, after which William's lands and titles were restored to him.[5] To further insure William's loyalty Henry considered marrying him to one of his many illegitimate daughters. Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury forbade the marriage based on the couple being related in the 4th generation on one side, and in the 6th generation on the other.[7] William was one of the commanders on Henry's side (against Robert Curthose) at the Battle of Tinchebray in 1106. Afterwards, with his loyalty thus proven, he became more prominent in Henry's court.[1] In 1110, Curthose's son William Clito escaped along with Helias of Saint-Saens, and afterwards Warenne received the forfeited Saint-Saens lands, which were very near his own in upper Normandy. In this way king Henry further assured his loyalty, for the successful return of Clito would mean at the very least Warenne's loss of this new territory.[1][8] He fought for Henry I at the Battle of Bremule in 1119.[1][9] William, the second Earl of Surrey was present at Henry's deathbed in 1135.[1][10] After the king's death disturbances broke out in Normandy and William was sent to guard Rouen and the Pays de Caux.[1][11] William was a donor to a number of priories, with his donations being mentioned in charters issued between 1130 and 1138 to Longueville Priory near Rouen, Normandy[12][13] and to the priory of Bellencombre (also near Rouen) in 1135.[14] His sons and his wife were witnesses to many of these charters.[12][13] William's death is recorded as 11-May-1138 in the register of Lewes Priory and he was buried at his father's feet at the Chapter house there.[15] His wife, the countess Elizabeth, survived him, dying before July 1147.[15] Family[edit] In 1118, William finally acquired the royal-blooded bride he desired when he married Elizabeth of Vermandois.[16] She was a daughter of Hugh I, Count of Vermandois and granddaughter of Henry I, King of France, as well as the widow of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester.[17] By his wife Elizabeth, he had three sons and two daughters: William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey[18][19] Reginald de Warenne, who inherited his father's property in upper Normandy, including the castles of Bellencombre and Morteme.[19] He married Alice de Wormegay, daughter of William de Wormegay, Lord of Wormegay in Norfolk, by whom he had a son, William de Warenne (founder of the priory of Wormegay),[19] whose daughter and sole heir, Beatrice de Warenne, married firstly, Doun, Lord Bardolf, and secondly, Hubert de Burgh.[20][21] Reginald was one of the persecutors of Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170. Ralph de Warenne[22] Gundred de Warenne,[22] who married firstly, Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick,[23] and secondly, William de Lancaster, Lord of Kendal, and is most remembered for expelling King Stephen's garrison from Warwick Castle. Ada de Warenne, who married Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, and was the mother of two Scottish kings.[24] She made many grants to the priory of Lewes.[