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Birth:          1119 Vermandois, Normandy, France
Death:          6 Jan 1148 Laodicea, Palestine

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_3rd_Earl_of_Surrey
William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey (1119 – 6 January 1148) was an Anglo-Norman 
nobleman who fought in England during the Anarchy and generally remained loyal to 
King Stephen.[1] He participated in the Second Crusade.[2]
Origins[edit]

He was the eldest son of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (d.1138) by his wife 
Elizabeth de Vermandois.[3][1] He was a great-grandson of King Henry I of France, 
and half-brother to Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Waleran IV de 
Beaumont, Count of Meulan, and Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford.[4]

Life[edit]

Still in his minority in 1137 he was serving with Stephen, King of England in Normandy 
being one of those young nobles who initially fled the battle.[5] Stephen pursued 
them, held them and did his best to pacify them but did not make them fight. At his 
father's death in 1138, William became the third Earl of Surrey.[3] At Easter 1138 he 
accompanied his half-brother Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester on an 
embassy to Paris for the purpose of ratifying a treaty between the English and French 
kings.[6] On February 2, 1141 he and his half-brother Waleran were again with King 
Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln but fled at the initial charge of the enemy forces.[5] 
They both joined Queen Matilda but on King Stephen's release they were once again 
among his followers, and William witnessed a royal charter at Canterbury in late 1141.
[5]

Charters[edit]

With his brother Ralph, William was a joint donor in numerous charters issued by his 
parents and was a witness to his father's charter, all to Longueville Priory near Rouen, 
Normandy[7] (between 1130 and 1138).[8] He was also a donor with his brother and 
both parents to the priory of Bellencombre (also near Rouen) in 1135.[9] William was 
also the primary donor in a number of charters after his father died, between 1138 and 
1147.One of particular instance occurred during a livery of seisin in 1147.[7] At that 
event, William gave a large gift to the Lewes Priory which was secured with a lock of 
hair from his own and from his brother Ralph's head cut by Henry of Blois, bishop of 
Winchester, before the altar of the priory church.[10][11] Lewes Priory had been 
founded by William's grandparents, William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, and his 
wife Gundrada, probably in 1081.

Marriage & progeny[edit]

William married Adela (alias Ela), daughter of Count William III of Ponthieu, by his wife 
Helie daughter of Odo I, Duke of Burgundy.[12] They had one child and sole-heiress, 
a daughter, Isabel de Warenne,[13] suo jure 4th Countess of Surrey. She married 
firstly William of Blois (d.1159), the second son of king Stephen, who became Earl 
Warenne or Earl of Surrey. After he died without progeny in October 1159, she 
remarried to Hamelin, half-brother of King Henry II, who became Earl Warenne or Earl 
of Surrey.[14] He adopted the surname "de Warenne", and the earldom continued in 
his descendants.[15]

Death on crusade[edit]

He was one of the nobles who, along with his second cousin, King Louis VII of 
France, took crusading vows at Vezelay in 1146, and he accompanied the initial army 
of the Second Crusade the next year.[6] William was killed at the Battle of Mount 
Cadmus while the crusader army was marching across Anatolia on their way to the 
Holy Land.[16]

In December 1147 the French-Norman force reached Ephesus. They were joined by 
remnants of the army of the Holy Roman Empire, which had previously suffered heavy 
losses at the Battle of Dorylaeum in 1147. They marched across southwest Turkey and 
fought an unsuccessful battle at Laodicea (3–4 January 1148) on the border between 
the Byzantine Empire and the Sultanate of Rum. On 6 January 1148 they battled again 
in the area of Mount Cadmus, where Turks ambushed the infantry and non-combatants 
only, because they had become separated from the rest of the army. King Louis VII 
and his bodyguard of Knights Templars and noblemen recklessly charged the Turks. 
Most of the knights were killed, including William, and Louis barely escaped with his 
life. His army arrived later at the coastal city of Adalia. The battle is recorded by Odo 
of Deuil, personal chaplain to Louis, in his narrative De Profectione.

Parents
DE WARENNE William II (1081 - 11 May 1138)
DE VERMANDOIS Elizabeth (Isabel) (1081 - Jul 1147)

Siblings
DE WARENNE William (1119 - 6 Jan 1148)
DE WARENNE Ada (ABT 1120 - 1178)
DE WARENNE Reginald (ABT 1123 - 1179)
DE WARENNE Gundred (ABT 1124 - AFT 1166)

Marriage To TALVAS (TALVACE) Ela (Adela) (ABT 1122 - 4 Oct 1174)
    m. ABT 1138 France

Notes

Parents
OF PONTHIEU William (Guillaume) III "Talvas" (ABT 1090 - 1172)
OF BURGUNDY Helie (Alix) (Alice) (ABT 1082 - 28 Feb 1141)

Children by TALVAS (TALVACE) Ela (Adela) ABT 1122 - 4 Oct 1174
DE WARENNE Isabel (ABT 1139 - 13 Jul 1199)
DE WARENNE Gundred (Gundrada) (ABT 1145 - 1224)

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