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- aka de VERMANDOIS
was a member of royalty, nobility or aristocracy in Europe.
Isabel (or Elisabeth), widow of Robert (de BEAUMONT), COUNT OF MEULAN and 1st EARL OF LEICESTER (died 5 June 1118), daughter of Hugh DE CR?PI (styled "the Great"), COUNT OF VERMANDOIS (younger son of HENRY I, KING OF FRANCE), by Adelaide, daughter and heir of Herbert, COUNT OF VERMANDOIS and VALOIS. Isabel survived him and with the consent of her son the 3rd Earl gave the church of Dorking to Lewes priory. She died probably before July 1147. [Complete Peerage XII/1:495-6)
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Isabel de Vermandois, Countess of Leicester (c.1081 ?- 13 Feb 1131) was distantly related to English kings, Norman dukes, and Flanders counts. By Carolingian ancestry, she was also related to almost every major nobleman in Western Europe. Nevertheless, Isabel was very much her own person.
Elizabeth married Meulan around aged 9 or 11.But the old count was at least 35 years her senior ... Yes. Unusual even for this time period. But he was a nobleman of some significance in France, who inherited lands from his maternal uncle Henry, Count of Meulan. He also fought his first battle with distinction at Hastings when he was only 16. He didn't have an English earldom when they got married, but his younger brother was Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick.
The marriage produced several children, including most notably two sons who were twins (born 1104), and thus remarkable in both surviving and both becoming important noblemen. They are better known tohistorians of this period as the Beaumont twins, or as Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and his younger twin Robert Bossu (the Humpback) or Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. (Readers of Ellis Peters' Cadfael historical mystery series will find both twins mentioned frequently). Another notable child of this marriage was Elisabeth or Isabel de Beaumont, one of the youngest mistresses of Henry I of England and later mother (by her first marriage) of Richard Strongbow.
Some contemporaries were surprised that the aging Count of Meulan (b circa 1049/1050) was able to father so many children, given how busy he was with turmoil in England and Normandy from 1102 to 1110 (or later) and acting as Henry I's unofficial minister. One explanation is offered below; another might simply be an indication of his good health and energy (expended mostly in dashing from one troublespot in Normandy to England back to Normandy).
William II of England died suddenly in a purported hunting accident, and was hastily succeeded not by the expected heir but by the youngest brother Henry. This seizure of the throne led to an abortiveinvasion by the older brother Duke Robert of Normandy, followed by an uneasy truce between the brothers, followed by trouble in both England and Normandy for some time (stirred up by Duke Robert, andby an exiled nobleman Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury). Finally, Henry invaded Normandy and in the Battle of Tinchebray (September 28, 1106) destroyed organized opposition to his takeover of Normandy and imprisoned his ineffectual older brother for his lifetime. Meulan and his brother Warwick were apparently supporters of Henry during this entire period, and Meulan was rewarded with theearldom of Leicester in 1103. By 1107, Meulan was in possession of substantial lands in three domains. In 1111, he was able to revenge himself on the attack on his seat Meulan by Louis VI of France. He avenged himself by harrying Paris.
Emma de Beaumont (c.1102)
Waleran IV de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (c.1104)
Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (c.1104)
Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (c. 1106)
Adeline de Beaumont (c.1107), m.1 Hugh IV, 4th Lord of Montfort-sur-Risle
Richard de Granville of Bideford (d. 1147)
Aubree (or Alberee) de Beaumont (b ca 1109) m. Hugh II of Châteauneuf-en-Thimerais
Maud de Beaumont (b ca 1111) m. William Lovel
Isabel de Beaumont (b Aft. 1102)m.1 Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke
Hervé de Montmorency, Constable of Ireland
Marriage to William de Warenne
m.2 1118 William de Warenne II (c.1065 - 11 May 1138)before 1118 France
Elizabeth, apparently tired of her aging husband at some point. The historian Planche says (1874) she was seduced by or fell in love with William de Warenne (c. 1071-11 May 1138).It was said he wanted a royal bride, and Elizabeth met his requirements, even though she was also another man's wife.
In 1115, Warenne abducted the Countess to hide their long-standing affair But eventually, the old Count of Meulan died -- supposedly of chagrin and mortification from publicly humiliation -- at the Abbey of Preaux, Normandy on 5 June 1118 So Elizabeth got to marry her lover after all.
Elizabeth and Warenne had several children -- all born during her marriage to Meulan. One daughter was born when they were living out of wedlock (1115-1118). It is unclear if it was Ada de Warenne.
Issue
William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey and Warenne (b. 1119 1147) dau Isabelle de Warenne, Countess of Surrey m.1 William, Count of Boulognem.2 Hamelin Plantagenet
Reginald de Warenne m. Adeline
alph de Warenne (dsp)
Gundrada de Warenne, (Gundred) m.1 Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick.
William de Warenne, Earl of Warenne and Surrey
Ada de Warenne(d. c.1178) m. Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
of Vermandois
!of Valois, Bretagne, France.
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Burial - Place: Priory of Lewes, Lewes, Sussex, England
Marriage: Robert de Caen
m. Robert de Caen (b. 1046)
The later life of Elizabeth de Vermandois is not known.
The original Vermandois arms were "checky or and sable" but there was no black tincture in early medieval heraldry until sable was discovered, being the crushed fur of this animal. A very deep indigo was used instead which faded into blue so the Vermandois arms became "checky or and azure".The Vermandois arms were inherited by the earls of Warenne and Surrey, the Newburgh earls of Warwick, the Beauchamp earls of Warwick and Worcester and the Clifford earls of Cumberland.
Source: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Capet-250
(Research):Isabel married Robert I DE BEAUMONT-LE-ROGER 1st Earl of Leicester, son of Roger DE BEAUMONT-LE-ROGER Seigneur de Portaudemer and Adeliza (Adeline) DE MEULAN, in Apr 1096 in Normandy, France. (Robert I DE BEAUMONT-LE-ROGER 1st Earl of Leicester was born about 1046 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France, died on 5 Jun 1118 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France and was buried after 5 Jun 1118 in Abbey of Preaux, Normandy, France.)
Isabel also married William DE WARENNE 2nd Earl of Surrey & Warren, son of Guillaume (William) DE WARENNE 1st Earl of Surrey and Gundred DE NORMANDIE, about 1118 in France. (William DE WARENNE 2nd Earl of Surrey & Warren was born in 1081 in Lewes, Sussex, England, died on 11 May 1138 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England and was buried in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England.)
SURNAME: Also shown as De Vermandois
GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Isabel Elizabeth
PREFIX: Also shown as Comtesse De Leicester
GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Isabel Elizabeth
AFN: Merged with a record that used the AFN 8XJB-1D
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1080 - 1146 (66 years)