Isabella de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey

1136 - 1199  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Isabella de Warenne
  Suffix	4th Countess of Surrey
  Born	ca 1136	England
  Gender	Female
  Died	13 Jul 1199	East Sussex, England
  Buried	Lewes Priory Lewes Lewes District East Sussex, England
  	Grave location, biography, historical portrait, and priory photo: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41288525
  Notes	Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_de_Warenne,_Countess_of_Surrey She was the only surviving heir of William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey and his wife, Adela, the daughter of William III of Ponthieu. She was the great-granddaughter of the first Norman Earl of Surrey, William and his Flemish wife Gundred. When her father died in the Holy Land c.1148 she inherited the earldom of Surrey and was married to William of Blois, the younger son of King Stephen, who became Earl through his marriage to her. The marriage occurred at a critical moment in The Anarchy as 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 brother, William X, Count of Poitou sought her hand, but Thomas Becket refused a dispensation from affinity on the grounds of consanguinity. In April 1164, the countess married Hamelin of Anjou, a natural half-brother of King Henry, who became the Earl of Surrey. The countess lived an unusually long life, dying at age 73. She and William of Blois had no children. Isabelle and her second husband Hamelin had four surviving children: 1. William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey, only son and heir, who married Maud Marshal. 2. Clemence (aka Adela), mistress of her cousin King John, and by him the mother of Richard FitzRoy, feudal baron of Chilham, in Kent. 3. Ela, who married firstly Robert de Newburn and secondly William FitzWilliam of Sprotborough. 4.Maud (alias Matilda), who married firstly Henry Count d'Eu and Lord of Hastings, secondly Henry d'Estouteville, Seigneur de Valmont. 5. Isabel,who married firstly Robert de Lacy of Pontefract, and secondly Gilbert de l'Aigle, Lord of Pevensey.
  Person ID	I36214	Master File
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey,   b. ca 1119, Lewes, East Sussex, England ,   d. 1148, Battle of Mount Cadmus, Anatolia,Turkey  (Age ~ 29 years)
  Mother	Adela (Ela) of Ponthieu,   b. ca 1118, France ,   d. 10 Oct 1174, Wiltshire, England  (Age ~ 56 years)
  Family ID	F14939	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey,   b. ca 1135, France ,   d. 07 May 1202, Lewes, East Sussex, England  (Age ~ 67 years)
  Children	1. William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey,   b. ca 1167, East Sussex, England ,   d. 27 May 1240, London, England  (Age ~ 73 years)
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2016
  Family ID	F14938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart