General Notes

EARLDOM OF SURREY

III. 3. WILLIAM (DE WARENNE) III, EARL OF SURREY, 1st son and heir, was born probably in 1119. In June 1137 he was one of the nobles who deserted Stephen's army in Normandy. The King pursued them to Pontaudemer, where he held William de Warenne junior and other youths and did his best to pacify them; but did not dare to make them fight. He was with his half-brother Waleran, Count of Meulan, at Rouen on 18 Dec. 113 8, and at Oxford in 1139 or early in 1140. On 2 February 1140/1 he was in Stephen's army at the battle of Lincoln, and with Waleran fled before the enemy's opening charge. However, the brothers soon rallied to the Queen and were with her in London about June 1141. After the King's release on 1 November he witnessed royal charters at Canterbury at Christmas 1141 and at Ipswich early in 1142. On Palm Sunday, 24 March 1145/6, he took the cross, and in June 1147 he set off on crusade. He was a benefactor to the priories of Lewes, Castle Acre, Nosteil and Thetford, the Templars and St. Mary's Abbey, York. He married Ela or Ala, daughter of William TALVAS, COUNT OF PONTHIEU (son of Robert DE BELLÊME, 3rd EARL OF SHREWSBURY), by Ela, widow of Bertrand, COUNT OF TOULOUSE, and daughter of Eudes BOREL, DUKE OF BURGUNDY. He died s.p.m. 19 January 1147/8, being slain when the rearguard of the French King's army was cut to pieces in the defiles of Laodicea (i). His widow married, probably in or before 1152, Patrick (DE SALISBURY), 1st EARL OF WILTSHIRE or SALISBURY (died 1168). She is said to have died 4 October 1174. [Complete Peerage XII/1:496-7, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(i) He left an only daughter and heir Isabel.  He was probably the first to assume the checkered shield of gold and azure, differenced by the change of colour from the checkered shield borne by his half-brother Waleran, Count of Meulan.

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William de Warrenne (Earl of Warrenne), 3rd Earl of Surrey, zealously espoused the cause of King Stephen and had a chief command in the army of that monarch in the battle fought at Lincoln between him and the adherents of the Empress Maud. His lordship m. Adela, dau. of William Talvace, son of Robert de Belesmé, Earl of Shrewsbury, and had by her (who m. 2ndly, Patrick de Evreux, Earl of Salisbury) had an only dau. and heir, Isabel. In 1147, the Earl of Warrenne and Surrey assumed the cross and accompanoied Lewis, King of France, to the Holy Land against the Saracens. From this unfortunate enterprise the earl never returned, but whether he fell in battle or died in captivity has not been ascertained. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 569, Warren, Earls of Surrey]

!Earl of Warren and Surrey; a crusader. [The Roll of Battle Abbey]

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!3rd Earl of Warren and Surrey.  Zealously espoused the cause of King Stephen and had a chief command in his army. [Magna Charta Barons, p. 79, 281]

The last earl of his line; died in the Holy Land, leaving an only child, Isabel, who inherited his vast domain and through whom the family descended. [Falaise Roll, p. 52]

b. 1110 [Judy Martin]

Thetford was in the hands of King Stephen in 1139. Soon after this date the king gave all the lands and advowsons on the Suffolk side of the river, both within and without the borough, to William de Warenne, the third earl of Warenne and Surrey. Immediately after he had received this grant, the earl founded a monastery on that side of Thetford for canons of the order of St. Sepulchre, of the Austin rule, which order had been introduced into England abt 1120. By the foundation charter the earl bestowed on the canons the church of
St. Sepulchre, with a quadrigate of land in the adjoining fields, together with all the lands, churches, tithes, and manorial rights in Thetford that he had obtained from the king. He further granted them 2 yearly fiars, namely at the Invention (3 May) and the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (14 September). The earl was at this time abt to set forth on a crusade, and the concluding sentences of the charter solemnly commend the maintenance of his new foundation to his brother palmers, to the burgesses, and to all his faithful friends. It was witnessed by his bros., Ralph and Reginald. [Victoria History of Suffolk, p. 109]

3rd Earl of Warren who succeeded in 1138 and d. on crusade in 1147. These direct descendants from the first earl and his wife were close relations of the kings of England: the second earl was the grondson of William I and nephew of Henry I and William Rufus. He m. Isabel, dau. of Hugh, 3rd son of Henry I of France. The family was thus closely linked to the royal nobility of France and England. Left no male heir, having only one dau., Isabel. She m. the son of King Stephen, William de Blois, who became the 4th Earl Warren.  [Conisbrough Castle, p. 20]

m. Ela/Eva/Adela of Ponthieu; father of Isabel who m. Hameline Plantagenet. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]

3rd Earl of Warenne & Surrey; b.c. 1119, d. 1148 on 3rd Crusade; son of William I  de Warenne and Isabel de Vermandois; m. Ela/Ala of Ponthieu and Alencon.[Charlemagne & Others, Chart 2958]

The third earl succeeded to the title in 1138. He took part in the second crusade and was killed by the Turks in 1147/8, leaving all his estates to his daughter, Isabel. It is probably to these first three earls that the earthworks
of Castle Acre Castle owe their existing plan; certainly most of the surviving work in the upper ward dates from their time. [Castle Acre Castle and Priory, p. 11]

William III joined the first Crusade and died in the Holy Land. [William de Warren's Shropshire Land Holdings in Domesday 1086 <http://wwww.infokey.com/Domesday/Shropshire.htm]

3rd Earl of Warren & Surrey; m. Ala Talvas de Alencon-Belleme; supporter of King Stephen, but he was among the pro-Stephen nobles carried away in a panic at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, leaving Stephen to be captures. He later returned to Stephen. He then went on Crusade and died in the Holy Land. [Suzanne Doing <smd49@*!*its.canterbury.ac.nz]