Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Surrey

Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey (c. 1137 – 12 July 1203) was an English

William III of Ponthieu.^[1]^[2]

Life

She was the great-granddaughter of the first Norman earl,

King Stephen, who became earl in her right.^[1]^[2] The marriage occurred at a critical moment in The Anarchy

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, 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 jure uxoris Earl of Surrey. The countess lived an unusually long life, dying at the age of 66.^[2]

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

William, later 5th Earl of Surrey (1166–1240)^[3]
Ela (born c. 1170, date of death unknown), married first Robert of Naburn and secondly William FitzWilliam of Sprotborough.^[4]
Isabel, married first
Robert de Lacy and secondly Gilbert de l'Aigle, Lord of Pevensey.^[4]

Matilda, married first
Henry, Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings^[5] and secondly Henry de Stuteville.^[4]

Ancestors of Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Surrey

16. Rodulf de Warenne

8.

Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury

27. Ada d'Amiens

3. Adela (or Ela) of Ponthieu

31. Stephanie

^ ^a ^b ^c G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. XII/1 (London" The St. Catherine Press, 1953), p. 498.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Elisabeth 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.
^ Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. XII/1 (1953), pp. 500–503.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. XII/1 (1953) p. 500, n. (g).
^ The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 9, Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Bradbury, Agnew and Co., 1886), 300.
^ "The Ancestry of Elizabeth FitzAlan (and her sister Joan FitzAlan) to the 9th generation".

Peerage of England
Preceded by William de Warenne	Countess of Surrey 1148–1203	Succeeded by Hamelin de Warenne