Earl John Plantagenet De Warrenne 
John was born in 1231 in Warren, Sussex, England.1 John's father was William Plantagenet De Warrenne and his mother was Countess of Norfolk Maud Matilda Marshall. His paternal grandparents were Earl Surrey Hammelin (of Anjou) Plantagent De Warrenne and Isabella De Warrenne; his maternal grandparents were 4th Earl of Pembroke William (The Protector) Marshall (FitzGilbert) and Isobel Fitzrichard De Clare. He had two sisters named Isabel and Eleanor. He was the second oldest of the three children. He had two half-brothers and two half-sisters, named Ralph, Simon, Hugh and Isabel. He died at the age of 74 on September 27th, 1305 in Surrey, England.2 General Notes
Earl of Warren and Surrey
John de Warenne (1231?- September 27, 1304), 7th Earl of Surrey or Warenne, was prominent during the reigns of Henry III and Edward I. During his long life he fought in the Barons' War and in Edward I's wars in Scotland.
He was the son of William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey or Warenne, and Maud (or Matilda) Marshal. His mother was the daughter of William Marshal and widow of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk. Thus Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk, was his elder half-brother.
Warenne was a boy when his father died, and for the rest of his minority Peter of Savoy was the guardian of his estates. In 1247 he married Henry III's half-sister Alice of Lusignan. This marriage was to create resentment amongst the English nobility, who did not like seeing a wealthy English nobleman marrying a penniless outsider.
During the following years Warenne was closely associated with the court faction centering on his in-laws.
In 1254 he accompanied the king's son Edward (the future Edward I) on Edward's journey to Spain to marry Eleanor of Castile.
During the conflicts between Henry III and his barons Warenne started as a strong supporter of the king, switched to support for Simon de Montfort, and then returned to the royalist party. He opposed the initial baronial reform plan of May 1258, but along with other opponents capitulated and took the oath of the Provisions of Oxford.
By 1260 Warenne had joined the party of Simon de Montfort, but switched back to the king's side in 1263. After the Battle of Lewes, which was fought near his castle at Lewes, he fled to the Continent, where he remained for about a year. He returned to fight in the campaign which culminated in the Battle of Evesham and the siege of Kenilworth Castle.
Warenne served in Edward I's Welsh campaigns in 1277, 1282, and 1283. In 1282 he received the lordships of Bromfield and Yale in Wales. A good part of the following years were spent in Scotland. He was one of the negotiators for the 1289 treaty of Salisbury and for the 1290 treaty of Brigham, and accompanied the king on Edward's great 1296 invasion of Scotland.
On August 22, 1296 the king appointed him "warden of the kingdom and land of Scotland". However he returned to England a few months later claiming that the Scottish climate was bad for his health. The following spring saw the rebellion of William Wallace, and after much delay Warenne led an army northward, where they were defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Nevertheless the king appointed Warenne captain of the next campaign against the Scots in early 1298. He raised the siege of Roxburgh and re-took the castle at Berwick. The king himself took the field later that year, and Warenne was one of the commanders at the Battle of Falkirk.
Warenne and Alice of Lusignan had three children:
Alice, who married Henry Percy and was the mother of Henry Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Alnwick;
Isabella, who married John Balliol and was the mother of Edward Balliol;
William, who married Joanna, daughter of Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, and was accidentally killed at a tournament in December 1286; his son John (see below) succeeded his grandfather as earl of Surrey.
-
Ancestor Pedigree Chart
-
*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1033 in Anjou, France d.14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, France
- b.1093 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem
- b.1060 in Montfort, France d.14 Feb 1116 in Fontrevault, France
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Château d'Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau du Loir, France
- b.1060 in Maine, France d.11 Jun 1110 in LeMans, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.1096 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.1080 d.08 Feb 1100
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.Apr 1202 in England
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise, Normandie, France d.10 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.21 Feb 1069 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis, Seine-St. Dennis, France
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.05 Aug 1102 in Windchester, England
- b.1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b.1079 in Dumferline, Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
- b.1166 in Surrey, England d.27 May 1240
- b.1055 in Bellebcombe, France d.24 Jun 1088 in Pevensey, Sussex, England
- b.1083 in Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Lewes, Surrey, England
- b.1055 in Normandie, France d.27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, England
- b.1110 in Vermandois, France d.19 Jan 1147 in Laodicea
- b.1057 in France d.18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus, Asia Minor
- b.1081 in Vermandois, Normandy d.17 Feb 1130 in St. Nicaise, Meulan, France
- b.1062 in France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1137 in Surrey, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, England
- b.1052 in St. Germain, Montgomery, Normandy, France d.08 May 1131 in Warham Castle, Dorsetshire, England
- b.1087 in Alencon, Orne, Normandy, France d.30 Jun 1171
- b.1055 in Abbeville, Ponthieu, Normandy, France d.06 Oct 1100 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.1110 in Sussex, England d.04 Oct 1174
- b.1058 d.23 Mar 1103 in Tarsus, Cilicie, Asia Minor
- b.Nov 1080 in Burgundy, France d.28 Feb 1140
- b.1065 d.23 Mar 1102
- b.1231 in Warren, Sussex, England d.27 Sep 1305 in Surrey, England
- b.1056 in Bec, Normandy, France
- b.1096 in Beck, Staffordshire, England d.1130 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
<Unknown>
- b.1105 in Pembroke, Wales d.1164 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1066 in Venuz, Normandy, France d.1157 in East Worldham, Hampshire, England
- b.1096 in Venuz, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Wales, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, Berkshire, England
- b.1060 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1130 in Salsbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1100 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1147 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.1072 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1130 in Crick, Derbyshire, England
- b.1127 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun 1165 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1062 in Chaworth, Nottinghamshire, England d.1133 in Chaworth, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1100 in Kempsford, Gloucester d.1147
- b.1057 in Toddington, Bedfordshire, England
- b.1192 in Pembroke, Wales, England d.27 Mar 1248
- b.1065 in Clare, England d.1117 in England
- b.21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.1149 in England
- b.1065 in Northamptonshire, England d.1117
- b.1046 in Pont-Audemer, Beaumont, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in Leicestershire, England
- b.1096 in Meulan, Ile De France, France d.1147
- b.1081 in Vermandois, Normandy d.17 Feb 1130 in St. Nicaise, Meulan, France
- b.1168 in Pembroke, Wales, England d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
<Unknown>
- b. in Leinster, Ireland
<Unknown>
-
Details of John's family with Alice de Lusignan
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=madchia&id=I728
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I24360&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I24360&style=TABLE
Page last modified