William Warenne Earl of Warren & Surrey
- Born: 1119, Sussex, England 281
- Marriage: Hele comtesse de Alençon 141
- Died: 19 Jan 1148, Laodicea, Holy Land at age 29 141
 General Notes:
~Fenwick Allied Ancestry, pg. 125, Pedigree 90, pg. Pedigree 59 726
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 141
William de Warenne, the third of this name, Earl of Surrey and first son and heir, was born probably in 1119. In June 1137, he was one of the nobles who deserted Stephen's army in Normandy. The King pursued them to Pontaudemer. Here he held William de Warenne junior and other youths and did his best to pacify them, but did not dare to make them fight. He was with his half-brother Waleran, Count of Meulan, at Rouen on 18 Dec. 113 8, and at Oxford in 1139 or early in 1140. On 2 February 1140/1 he was in Stephen's army at the battle of Lincoln, and with Waleran fled before the enemy's opening charge. However, the brothers soon rallied to the Queen and were with her in London about June 1141. After the King's release on 1 November, he witnessed royal charters at Canterbury at Christmas 1141 and at Ipswich early in 1142. On Palm Sunday, 24 March 1145/6, he took the cross, and in June 1147 he set off on crusade. He was a benefactor to the priories of Lewes, Castle Acre, Nosteil and Thetford, the Templars and St. Mary's Abbey, York.
He married Ela or Ala, daughter of William Talvas, comté de Ponthieu (son of Robert de Belêsme, third Earl of Shrewbury), by Ela, widow of Bertrand, comté de Toulouse, and the daughter of Eudes Borel, duc de Bourgogne. William died s.p.m. 19 January 1147/8, being slain when the rearguard of the French King's army was cut to pieces in the defiles of Laodicea. The only child of Ela and William was Isabel. His widow married, probably in or before 1152, Patrick de Salisbury, first earl of Wiltshire or Salisbury (died 1168). She is said to have died 4 October 1174.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Surry), Vol. XIIA pp. 496-497
William married Hele comtesse de Alençon, daughter of Guillaume "Talvas" de Belêsme comte d'Alençon et de Ponthieu and Hélie de Bourgogne.141,748 (Hele comtesse de Alençon was born in 1124 in Alençon, Normandy, France and died on 10 Oct 1174 in Priory, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England 141.)
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