William de Warenne (1256-1286)

William de Warenne (9 February 1256 – 15 December 1286) was the only son of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey and his wife Alice de Lusignan.[1]

Life

William married Joan, daughter of Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford. They had the following children:

• John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey (30 June 1286 – June 1347)
• Alice de Warenne (15 June 1287 - 23 May 1338), wife of Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel.

William was killed in a tournament at Croydon in 1286,[1] predeceasing his father. It has been suggested that this was murder, planned in advance by William's enemies.[2][3] On the 6th Earl's death the title went to John, the only son of William. John died without legitimate children, so on his death the title passed to Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, eldest son of Edmund FitzAlan and John's sister Alice.

Ancestry

Ancestors of William de Warenne (1256-1286)

Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey [[]] William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Surrey John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey John Marshal William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke Sybilla of Salisbury Maud Marshal, Countess of Norfolk Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke Aoife of Leinster William de Warenne Hugues of Lusignan, co-Seigneur of Lusignan Hugh IX of Lusignan Orengarde Hugh X de Lusignan Agathe de Preuilly Alice de Lusignan, Countess of Surrey William IV of Angoulême Aymer of Angoulême Marguerite of Turenne Isabella of Angoulême Peter II of Courtenay Alice of Courtenay Elizabeth de Courtenay

External links

• Inquisition Post Mortem, dated 1286.

References

1. Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard and William Ryland Beall, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years (Genealogical Pub. Co., 1999), p. 184
2. Juliet R. V. Barker, The Tournament in England, 1100-1400 (Boydell Press, 1986), p. 47
3. The Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds, ed. A. Gransden (Nelson, 1964), p. 87