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Birth:          1130 Normandy, France
Death:          7 May 1202 England

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamelin_de_Warenne,_Earl_of_Surrey
Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (c. 1129 – 7 May 1202) (alias Hamelin of Anjou 
and (anachronistically[a]) Hamelin Plantagenet), was an Anglo-Angevin nobleman, a 
half-brother of King Henry II of England, and was prominent at the courts of the 
Plantagenet kings of England, Henry II and his sons Richard I and John.
Origins[edit]

He was an illegitimate son of Geoffrey of Anjou, and thus a half-brother of King Henry 
II,[1] and an uncle of King Richard I and of King John.[2]

Marriage and children[edit]

King Henry II arranged for him to marry one of the wealthiest heiresses in England, 
Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey,[3] the widow of William of Blois.[3] 
Hamelin and Isabella married in April 1164,[4] and after the marriage he was 
recognized as Comte de Warenne, that being the customary designation for what more 
technically should be Earl of Surrey.[5] In consequence of the marriage Hamelin 
adopted the surname de Warenne, as did his descendants. By his wife he had one son 
and four daughters as follows:
William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey, only son and heir, who married Maud 
Marshal.[6]
Clemence (aka Adela), mistress of her cousin[b] King John, and by him the mother of 
Richard FitzRoy, feudal baron of Chilham,[7] in Kent.[8]
Ela, who married firstly Robert de Newburn and secondly William FitzWilliam of 
Sprotborough.[6]
Maud (alias Matilda), who married firstly Henry Count d'Eu and Lord of Hastings, 
secondly Henry d'Estouteville, Seigneur de Valmont.[6]
Isabel, who married firstly Robert de Lacy of Pontefract, and secondly Gilbert de 
l'Aigle, Lord of Pevensey.[6]

Career[edit]

Warenne's lands in England centred on Conisbrough Castle in Yorkshire, which 
powerful castle he built. He also possessed the "third penny" (an entitlement to one 
third of the fines levied in the county courts) of his County of Surrey and held the 
castles of Mortemer and Bellencombre in Normandy.

Hamelin joined in the denunciations of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket in 
1164, although after Becket's death he became a great believer in Becket's 
sainthood, having reportedly been cured of blindness by the saint's intervention. In 
1176 he escorted his niece Joan to Sicily for her marriage.

He remained loyal to Henry II through all the problems of the later part of his reign 
when many nobles deserted him, and continued as a close supporter of that king's 
eldest son and his own nephew, Richard I. During Richard's absence on the Third 
Crusade, he took the side of the regent William Longchamp. Hamelin was present at 
the second coronation of King Richard in 1194 and at King John's coronation in 1199.

Death and succession[edit]

He died in 1202 and was buried in the Chapter House of Lewes Priory in Sussex. He 
was succeeded by his son, William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey.[9]

Parents
PLANTAGENET Geoffrey V "Le Bon" (24 Aug 1113 - 7 Sep 1151)
----- ----- (ABT 1113 - )

Siblings
PLANTAGENET Hameline (1130 - 7 May 1202)

Marriage To DE WARENNE Isabel (ABT 1139 - 13 Jul 1199)
    m. Apr 1164 Norfolk, Norfolk, England

Notes

Parents
DE WARENNE William (1119 - 6 Jan 1148)
TALVAS (TALVACE) Ela (Adela) (ABT 1122 - 4 Oct 1174)

Children by DE WARENNE Isabel ABT 1139 - 13 Jul 1199
PLANTAGENET (WARENNE) Maud (Matilda) (1165 - )
PLANTAGENET (WARREN) William (1166 - 27 May 1240)
PLANTAGENET Adela (ABT 1170 - )

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