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Gundred Of England
Gundred or Gundreda may refer to: *Gundred, Countess of Surrey Gundred or Gundreda (Latin: Gundrada) (died 27 May 1085)G. E. Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage'', vol. xii/1 (The St. Catherine Press, London, 1953), p. 494 was the Flemish-born wife of an early Norman baron, William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surre ... (died 1085) * Gundreda de Warenne, Countess of Warwick ( 1136–1175) * Gundred, Countess of Norfolk () {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gundred, Countess Of Surrey
Gundred or Gundreda (Latin: Gundrada) (died 27 May 1085)G. E. Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage'', vol. xii/1 (The St. Catherine Press, London, 1953), p. 494 was the Flemish-born wife of an early Norman baron, William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. She and her husband established Lewes Priory in Sussex. Life Gundred was almost certainly born in Flanders, and was a sister of Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester, and thus daughter of Gerbod, hereditary advocate of the Abbey of Saint Bertin.''Early Yorkshire Charters'', ed: William Farrer, Charles Travis Clay, Volume VIII - The Honour of Warenne (The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1949), pp. 40-46 She is explicitly so called by Orderic Vitalis, as well as the chronicle of Hyde Abbey. She was also the sister of Frederick of Oosterzele-Scheldewindeke, who was killed c.1070 by Hereward the Wake. Gundred married before 1070 William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey (d. 20 June 1088), who rebuilt Lewes Castle, making it his chief res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gundreda De Warenne
Gundreda de Warenne, Countess of Warwick was the wife of Earl Roger (died 1153). She was the daughter and eldest child of William II, earl Warenne by the Capetian princess Isabel of Vermandois (died c. 1140) daughter of Count Hugh the Great of Vermandois and niece of King Philip I of France. On the death of her first husband Count Robert of Meulan and Leicester in 1118 Isabel promptly married Earl William II de Warenne (died 1138) and since Gundreda had an infant daughter by 1138 it is most likely she was the eldest child of the marriage. The Flemish name Gundreda was given her in recollection of her father's mother Gundreda de Warenne (died 1085). Marriages Gundreda was married in or around 1136 to Earl Roger, who was 1st cousin of her half-brother, Count Waleran II of Meulan. The marriage tied Earl Roger into the Beaumont clique dominant at the court of King Stephen of England between 1135 and 1141. For Waleran the marriage helped secure his position in the English w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
