![]() ![]() ![]() Interestingly, the two families appear to have got on rather well together. Isabel had nine children with her first husband and five more with Earl Warenne. Waleran and Robert de Beaumont were the eldest sons of Isabel de Vermandois by her first husband, Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and Earl of Leicester. Gundreda de Warenne married Roger de Beaumont, Earl of Warwick, who was a cousin of Gundreda’s half-brothers, the famous Beaumont twins, Waleran and Robert. ![]() Of his sisters, Ada married Prince Henry of Scotland, and was the mother of two Scottish kings, Malcolm IV and William the Lion. His two brothers, Reginald and Ralph, appear frequently in his story, suggesting a close family bond. William was born in 1119, a year after his parents’ marriage. William (III) de Warenne was the son of William (II) de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Warenne and Surrey, and Isabel de Vermandois, a granddaughter of King Henry I of France. Coat of arms of the Warenne earls of Surrey, in the Gundrada Chapel of Trinity Church, Southover ![]()
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