Reginald de Warenne
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Born | Between 1121 and 1126 |
Died | 1179 |
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Spouse | Alice de Wormegay |
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Reginald de Warenne (sometimes Rainald de Warenne;[1] between 1121 and 1126 – 1179) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal official. The third son of an earl, Reginald began his career as an administrator of his brother's estates, and continued to manage them for his brother's successor, William, the second son of King Stephen. Reginald was involved in the process that led to the peaceful ascension of Henry fitzEmpress to the throne of England in 1154 and served the new king as a royal justice afterwards. He played a minor role in the Becket controversy in 1170, as a member of the party that met Becket on his return to England from exile in 1170.
Reginald married Alice de Wormegay, the heiress to the feudal barony of Wormegay in Norfolk. He died in 1179 and left a son and heir, William de Warenne, and at least two daughters.
Origins
Reginald de Warenne was the third son of
Early career
Reginald first appears in the historical record in early 1138, signing some of his father William's charters as a witness.
Reginald was granted the castles of Bellencombre and Mortemer by a charter at Westminster in 1153.[7] This charter, which Reginald was a witness to,[8] laid out the rights that William, by then the only surviving son of King Stephen, would receive for not contesting the passage of the crown of England to Henry of Anjou after Stephen's death.[7] Stephen died in 1154, and Henry succeeded him as Henry II; Reginald continued to serve as a royal official, witnessing several of the new King's charters.[1]
Royal service
In 1157 Reginald was one of the
Reginald was one of the four main justices involved with the
In 1170 Reginald was involved in attempts to keep Thomas Becket, who had been in exile, from returning to England. Working with Reginald were
In 1173 Reginald worked for the King, along with
Death and legacy
Reginald married Alice, the daughter and heiress of William de Wormegay, Baron of
Reginald gave up his public duties in 1176.[19] Although his considerable debts (including the levy for the Wormegay Barony) had been tacitly ignored while he was in the king's service, as soon as he retired the Exchequer demanded that he start to quickly repay them.[19] Sometime between Michaelmas 1178 and the start of 1179, Reginald became a monk at Lewes Priory in Sussex, which had been founded by his family in the previous century.[1] He died in 1179, still owing a large portion of the fine levied against him for the inheritance of his father-in-law's estates.[1] His heir was his son William de Warenne,[20] and he also had at least two daughters. One was Gundrada, who married three times: first to Peter de Valognes,[2] son of Roger de Valognes;[22] then to William de Courcy;[2] and finally to Geoffrey Hose.[2] Another daughter, Alice, married Peter, Constable of Mealton. A possible third daughter, Muriel, was a nun at Carrow Abbey,[2] and another possible daughter, Ela, married Duncan the Earl of Fife.[23]
The historian Edmund King has called Reginald "the fixer in that formidable family".[24] Reginald gave lands and gifts to several monasteries. Among these were the Warenne family foundations of Lewes and Castle Acre Priory, with further gifts to Carrow, Clerkenwell Priory, and Binham Priory.[1]
Notes
- ^ An eyre was an occasional circuit court, with justices sent out by the king on circuits of the shires to hear civil and criminal cases. England was divided into multiple circuits.[11]
- William fitzStephen 1176: William Basset, Roger fitzReinfrid 1177: Hugh de Cressy 1179: Hugh de Gaerst, Ranulf de Glanvill, Hugh Murdac 1182: William de Auberville, Osbert fitzHervey 1184: Ralph fitzStephen.[13]
- ^ The sources do not define the exact basis for the king imposing this fine.[20][1]
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Chandler "Warenne, Reginald de" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ a b c d e f Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants pp. 777–778
- ^ a b Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants pp. 239–240
- ^ Stringer "Ada , countess of Northumberland" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ a b Crouch Reign of King Stephen p. 128
- ^ King King Stephen pp. 238–239
- ^ a b King King Stephen pp. 282–283
- ^ King King Stephen pp. 288–289
- ^ Richardson and Sayles Governance of Mediaeval England p. 213
- ^ Carpenter Struggle for Mastery pp. 205–206
- ^ Saul "Eyre" Companion to Medieval England
- ^ Richardson and Sayles Governance of Mediaeval England p. 203
- ^ a b Warren "Serjeants-at-Law" Virginia Law Review p. 919 and footnote 18
- ^ Baker Order of Serjeants at Law pp. 9–10
- ^ a b Barlow Thomas Becket p. 223
- ^ Barlow Thomas Becket pp. 224–227
- ^ Barlow Thomas Becket p. 230
- ^ Richardson "Richard fitz Neal" English Historical Review p. 169 footnote 1
- ^ a b c Vincent "Court of Henry II" Henry II p. 301
- ^ a b c Sanders English Baronies pp. 101–102
- ^ Turner English Judiciary pp. 90–91
- ^ Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 758
- ^ Chandler "Ada de Warenne" Scottish Historical Review p. 128
- ^ King King Stephen p. 337
References
- Baker, J. H. (1984). The Order of Serjeants at Law. London: Seldon Society. OCLC 27811571.
- ISBN 0-520-07175-1.
- ISBN 0-14-014824-8.
- Chandler, Victoria (October 1981). "Ada de Warenne, Queen Mother of Scotland (c. 1123–1178)". The Scottish Historical Review. 60 (170 Part 2): 119–139. JSTOR 25529417.
- Chandler, Victoria (2004). "Warenne, Reginald de (1121x6–1178/9)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. required)
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- ISBN 0-85115-863-3.
- King, Edmund (2010). King Stephen. The English Monarchs Series. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11223-8.
- Richardson, H. G. (April 1928). "Richard fitz Neal and the Dialogus de Scaccario". S2CID 159685164.
- Richardson, H. G.; OCLC 504298.
- Sanders, I. J. (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. OCLC 931660.
- ISBN 0-7524-2969-8.
- Stringer, Keith (2004). "Ada, countess of Northumberland (c.1123–1178)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. required)
- Turner, Ralph V. (2008). The English Judiciary in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton, c. 1176–1239 (Reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-07242-7.
- Vincent, Nicholas (2007). "The Court of Henry II". In Harper-Bill, Christopher; Vincent, Nicholas (eds.). Henry II: New Interpretations. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. pp. 278–334. ISBN 978-1-84383-340-6.
- Warren, Edward H. (May 1942). "Serjeants-at-Law: The Order of the Coif". Virginia Law Review. 28 (7): 911–950. S2CID 158404423.