Ancestral Glimpses » Gundred de St. Omer Countess of Surrey (± 1063-1085)

Personal data Gundred de St. Omer Countess of Surrey 

• Alternative name: Gundred de St. Omer
• She was born about 1063 in Flandres, BELGIUM.
• Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on December 31, 1932.
• She died on May 27, 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, ENGLAND.
• She is buried in Cluniac Priory at Southover, adjoining Lewes, ENGLAND.
• A child of William de Flanders
• This information was last updated on March 30, 2018.

Household of Gundred de St. Omer Countess of Surrey

She is married to William de Warrene.

They got married before 1077 at Normandy, FRANCE.

Child(ren):

1. William Warrenne  ± 1075-1138 

Notes about Gundred de St. Omer Countess of Surrey

Gundred de St. Omer, Countess of Surrey
http://www.lewespriory.org.uk/gundrada_chapel http://sussexpast.co.uk/properties-to-discover/lewes-castle _________________________________________________________________________________ Gundred, sister of Gerbod the Fleming
Parents: unknown, NOT Matilda of Flanders, see evidence below.
Decisive negative evidence as to a relationship with William, seems to exist as a letter from Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, to king Henry I, in which Anselm refuses to condone the marriage of Gundreda's son (William de Warenne) to a dau. of the king, because they were related in the fourth generation on one side and the sixth generation on the other ["Quærit consilium celsitudo vestra quid sibi faciendum sit de hoc quia pacta est filiam suam dare Guillelmo de Vuarenne; cum ipse et filia vestra ex una parte sint cognati in quarta generatione, et ex altera in sexta." Anselm, Epistolæ, iv, 84, PL 159: 245].
Had Gundreda been a dau. of Matilda, then she would be a sister (or half-sister) of Henry, making the betrothed first-cousins, and Anslem would have had better grounds for objection.
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LINK:
http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm

MEDIEVAL LANDS
Brother and sister, parents not known. As noted below, one charter suggests that Gundred´s mother was Mathilde de Flandre, wife of William I King of England, by an earlier husband who is not otherwise recorded, but this information is dubious as discussed further below:
1. GERBOD (- aft. 22 Feb 1071). William I King of England granted the city of Chester and large areas surrounding it to Gerbod, avoué of the abbey of St Bertin in Flanders, in early 1070, whereby he is considered to have been created Earl [of Chester]. According to Orderic Vitalis, Gerbod was "continually molested by the English and Welsh alike"[10]. He returned to Flanders where he fought and was captured at the battle of Cassel 22 Feb 1071[11].
2. GUNDRED (- Castle Acre, Norfolk 27 May 1085, bur. Lewes Priory). Her marriage is recorded by Orderic Vitalis who also specifies that she was Gerbod´s sister[12]. "Willelmus de Warenna…Surreie comes [et] Gundrada uxor mea" founded Lewes Priory as a cell of Cluny by charter dated 1080[13]. This charter also names "domine mee Matildis regine, matris uxoris mee", specifying that the Queen gave "mansionem quoque Carlentonam nomine" to Gundred. It is presumably on this basis that some secondary works claim, it appears incorrectly, that Gundred was the dau. of William I King of England. Weir asserts that the charter in question "has been proved spurious"[14], although it is not certain what other elements in the text indicate that this is likely to be the case. Assuming the charter is genuine, it is presumably possible that "matris" was intended in the context to indicate a quasi-maternal relationship, such as foster-mother or god-mother. The same relationship is referred to in the charter dated to [1080/86] under which William I King of England donated property in Norfolk to Lewes priory, for the souls of “…Gulielmi de Warenna et uxoris suæ Gundfredæ filiæ meæ”[15]. Gundred died in childbirth. md. (1070) as his first wife, WILLIAM de Warenne, son of RODULF [Raoul] de Warenne and his first wife Beatrix --- (-Lewes 24 Jun 1088, bur. Lewes Priory). He was created Earl of Surrey in [late Apr] 1088[16], although he and his immediate successors usually styled themselves "Earl de Warenne".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundred
http://www.chesterwiki.com/Gherbod_the_Fleming
Gundred was NOT the dau. of William I of England/Normandy and Matilda of Flanders.
Late Lewes Priory tradition made her dau. of William the Conqueror by his spouse Matilda of Flanders (Bannerman, vol. IV, p. 207-209; Burke, The Royal Families vol.1, "Descendants of William the Conqueror", pp. iv-v & pedigree LXVIII; Burke, The Roll of Battle Abbey, p. 106; Barlow, pp. 16 and 160), but this being impossible, Stapleton argued she was dau. of Matilda, born prior to her marriage to William. Waters and Freeman showed that this too could not be supported (Waters, Freeman). See Chandler for an extensive discussion.
Gundred md. William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey (d. 20 Jun 1088), who rebuilt Lewes Castle, making it his chief residence. In 1078 he and Gundred founded a Cluniac Priory at Southover, adjoining Lewes, where both were bur.[2] [3]
The Countess had died at Castle Acre, Norfolk, one of her husband's estates.
In the course of the centuries which followed both tombstones disappeared from the priory but in 1774 William Burrell, Esq., an antiquary, discovered Gundred's in Isfield Church (seven miles from Lewes), over the remains of Edward Shirley, Esq., (d. 1550), whose father John was Clerk of the Kitchen to King Henry VII, and had it removed on 2 Oct 1775, to St. John's Church, Southover, the nearest place to its original site, and placed inside and at the south-west corner of the church, where, unt. 1847, it could be seen on the floor between pews with a very fine inscription detailing its origins, etc.
In 1845, during excavations through the Priory grounds for the South Coast Railway, the lead chests containing the remains of the Earl and his Countess were discovered, and deposited temporarily, for the next two years, beneath Gundred's tombstone. In 1847 a Norman Chapel was erected by public subscription, adjoining the present vestry and chancel. Prior to re-interring the remains in this chapel, both cysts were opened to ascertain if there were any contents, which was found to be the case. New cysts were made and used, and the ancient ones preserved and placed in two recessed arches in the southern wall. Gundred's remains in a good state of preservation although the Earl's has lost some lead. Across the upper part of the right arch is the name Gvndrada. Her tombstone is of black marble.[4]
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Gundred, Gundreda, or Gundrada (died 27 May 1085) was probably born in Flanders , sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester.[1]

References
* Bannerman, W.Bruce, FSA., editor, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 4th series, London, 1912
* Barlow, Frank, The Feudal Kingdom of England 1012 - 1216, London, 1955
* Burke, John Bernard, The Roll of Battle Abbey, London, 1848
* Burke, John and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England Scotland and Wales, with Their Descendants etc., vol. 1 (1848), vol. 2 (1851), London
* Chandler, Victoria, "Gundrada de Warenne and the Victorian Gentleman-Scholars", Southern History 12 (1990):68-81
* Dunbar, Sir Archibald, Bt., Scottish Kings, a Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005 - 1625, Edinburgh, 1899
* Freeman, Edward A., "The parentage of Gundrada, wife of William of Warren", English Historical Review 3 (1888):680-701
* Stapleton, Thomas, "Observations in disproof of the pretended marriage of William de Warren, Earl of Surrey, with a dau. begotten of Matildis, dau. of Baldwin, Comte of Flanders, by William the Conqueror, and illustrative of the origin and early history of the family in Normandy", The Archaeological Journal 3 (1846):1-26
* Waters, Edmond Chester, "Gundreda de Warrenne", The Archaeological Journal 41 (1884):300-312
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Gundrada of NORMANDY
* Father: William The CONQUEROR
* Mother: Matilda Queen of ENGLAND
* Birth: 1055, Normandy, France
* Death: 27 May 1085, Castle Acre, Norfolk, England
* Burial: Gundrada Chapel, Lewes, England
* Partnership with: William DE WARENNE
◌ Child: Edith DE WARENNE Birth: 1075, Surrey, England
□ Child: William II DE WARENNE Birth: 1078, Surrey, England
□ Child: Reginald DE WARENNE Birth: 1085
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* BURIAL: Chapter-house, Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
* BIRTH: 1053, France or Flanders
* DEATH: 27 May 1085, Castle Acre, England
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Gundred (ca. 1063 – 1085), wife of William de Warenne (ca. 1055 – 1088), was formerly thought of as being yet another of Matilda's daus., with speculation that she was William I's full dau., a step-dau., or even a foundling or adopted dau. However, this connection to William I has now been firmly debunked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Flanders

The Countess had died at Castle Acre, Norfolk, one of her husband's estates.
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http://thepeerage.com/p448.htm#i4478
Gundreda (?)
d. 27 May 1085

Gundreda (?) md. William I de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, son of Rudolph de Warenne and Beatrice (?).1 She died on 27 May 1085.
Child of Gundreda (?) and William I de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey
William II de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey+2 d. ca. 11 May 1138

Citations
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 vols. in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 vols., Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), vol. XII/1, p. 494. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, vol. XII/1, p. 496.
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http://www.renderplus.com/hartgen/htm/de-warenne.htm
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http://www.todmar.net/ancestry/warren_main.htm
William de Warren, son of William was born abt. 1055 in Bellencombe, Seine Inferieure, France. He md. Gundred, 4th dau. of William, the Conqueror, and his wife Matilda of Flanders. (It has been said that Gundred was not the dau. of William, the Conqueror, but that she was the dau. of Matilda of Flanders by, perhaps, a previous marriage. The Invincible Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, p. 26, says that the inscription on Gundred's tombstone describes her as wife of William de Warren and dau. of Wm., the Conqueror. Also in Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, pp. 154, 568 and 588, she is called dau. by Wm., the Conqueror, in a charter signed by Wm., William de Warren and Henry I, son of William, the Conqueror. Thus proving this much discussed question. E. E. W.) For the important part that William de Warren took in the Conquest of England he received 300 lordships in the counties of Salop, Essex, Suffolk, Oxford, Hants, Cambridge, Bucks, Norfolk, Lincoln and York.

Gundred
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gundred, Countess of Surrey (died 27 May 1085) was probably born in Flanders, sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester.[1]
It has been said that Gundred was not the dau. of William I of England, the Conqueror, but that she was the dau. of Matilda of Flanders by, perhaps, a previous marriage. The Invincible Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, p. 26, says that the inscription on Gundred's tombstone describes her as wife of William de Warren and dau. of Wm., the Conqueror. Also in Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, pp. 154, 568 and 588, she is called dau. by Wm., the Conqueror, in a charter signed by Wm., William de Warren and Henry I, son of William, the Conqueror. Thus proving this much discussed question. [2]
In the course of the centuries which followed both tombstones disappeared from the priory but in 1774 William Burrell, Esq., an antiquary, discovered Gundred's in Isfield Church (seven miles from Lewes), over the remains of Edward Shirley, Esq., (d. 1550), whose father John was Clerk of the Kitchen to King Henry VII, and had it removed on 2 Oct 1775, to St. John's Church, Southover, the nearest place to its original site, and placed inside and at the south-west corner of the church, where, unt. 1847, it could be seen on the floor between pews with a very fine inscription detailing its origins, etc.

Notes
She is explicitly so called by Orderic Vitalis, as well as the chronicle of Hyde Abbey. Historically, she has been made a dau. of William the Conqueror by his spouse Matilda of Flanders, (Bannerman, vol. IV, pp. 207-209; Burke, The Royal Families vol.1, "Descendants of William the Conqueror", pp. iv-v & pedigree LXVIII; Burke, The Roll of Battle Abbey, p.106; Barlow, pp. 16 and 160) or of Matilda alone (Stapleton), but Waters and Freeman showed that this could not be supported (Waters, Freeman). See Chandler for an extensive discussion. Other sources suggest that she is dau. of Matilda from a relationship with Gerbod the Fleming prior to her marriage to William the Conqueror.
Genealogy of Family Warenne
Burke, The Roll of Battle Abbey, pp. 57, and 105-106
Bannerman, vol. IV, p. 208-210
Burke, The Royal Families, vol. 1, pedigrees III and LXVIII, plus vol. 2 (1851) pp. iv, xlvii, and pedigree XXIX.
Dunbar, pp. 65 &71.
Burke, The Royal Families, vol. 2, pp. v and vii.

References
Bannerman, W. Bruce, FSA., ed., Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 4th series, London, 1912
Barlow, Frank, The Feudal Kingdom of England 1012 - 1216, London, 1955
Burke, John Bernard, The Roll of Battle Abbey, London, 1848
Burke, John and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England Scotland and Wales, with Their Descendants etc., vol. 1 (1848), vol. 2 (1851), London
Chandler, Victoria, "Gundrada de Warenne and the Victorian Gentleman-Scholars", Southern History 12 (1990):68-81
Dunbar, Sir Archibald, Bt., Scottish Kings, a Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005 - 1625, Edinburgh, 1899
Freeman, Edward A., "The parentage of Gundrada, wife of William of Warren", English Historical Review 3 (1888):680-701
Stapleton, Thomas, "Observations in disproof of the pretended marriage of William de Warren, Earl of Surrey, with a dau. begotten of Matildis, dau. of Baldwin, Comte of Flanders, by William the Conqueror, and illustrative of the origin and early history of the family in Normandy", The Archaeological Journal 3 (1846):1-26
Waters, Edmond Chester, "Gundreda de Warrenne", The Archaeological Journal 41 (1884):300-312
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Gundred, Gundreda, or Gundrada (died 27 May 1085) was probably born in Flanders , sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester.
The Countess had died at Castle Acre, Norfolk, one of her husband's estates.
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Gundred
Parents unknown Possibly but doubfully, Mathilda (w/o William I) and an earlier unknown husband.
From Medlands:
http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#GundredMWilliamWarenne
Brother and sister, parents not known. As noted below, one charter suggests that Gundred´s mother was Mathilde de Flandre, wife of William I King of England, by an earlier husband who is not otherwise recorded, but this information is dubious as discussed further below:
1. GERBOD ( - aft. 22 Feb 1071). William I King of England granted the city of Chester and large areas surrounding it to Gerbod, avoué of the abbey of St Bertin in Flanders, in early 1070, whereby he is considered to have been created Earl [of Chester]. According to Orderic Vitalis, Gerbod was "continually molested by the English and Welsh alike"[10]. He returned to Flanders where he fought and was captured at the battle of Cassel 22 Feb 1071[11].
2. GUNDRED ( - Castle Acre, Norfolk 27 May 1085, bur. Lewes Priory). Her marriage is recorded by Orderic Vitalis who also specifies that she was Gerbod´s sister[12]. "Willelmus de Warenna…Surreie comes [et] Gundrada uxor mea" founded Lewes Priory as a cell of Cluny by charter dated 1080[13]. This charter also names "domine mee Matildis regine, matris uxoris mee", specifying that the Queen gave "mansionem quoque Carlentonam nomine" to Gundred. It is presumably on this basis that some secondary works claim, it appears incorrectly, that Gundred was the dau. of William I King of England. Weir asserts that the charter in question "has been proved spurious"[14], although it is not certain what other elements in the text indicate that this is likely to be the case. Assuming the charter is genuine, it is presumably possible that "matris" was intended in the context to indicate a quasi-maternal relationship, such as foster-mother or godmother. The same relationship is referred to in the charter dated to [1080/86] under which William I King of England donated property in Norfolk to Lewes priory, for the souls of “…Gulielmi de Warenna et uxoris suæ Gundfredæ filiæ meæ”[15]. Gundred died in childbirth. md. (1070) as his first wife, WILLIAM de Warenne, son of RODULF [Raoul] de Warenne & his first wife Beatrix --- (-Lewes 24 Jun 1088, bur. Lewes Priory). He was created Earl of Surrey in [late Apr] 1088[16], although he and his immediate successors usually styled themselves "Earl de Warenne".
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Princess Gundred - It has been said that Gundred was not the dau. of William, the Conqueror, but that she was the dau. of Matilda of Flanders by, perhaps, a previous marriage. The Invincible Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, p. 26, says that the inscription on Gundred's tombstone describes her as wife of William de Warren and dau. of Wm., the Conqueror. Also in Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, pp. 154, 568 and 588, she is called dau. by Wm., the Conqueror, in a charter signed by Wm., William de Warren and Henry I, son of William, the Conqueror. Thus proving this much discussed question. E. E. W)
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Said to have also been Countess of Surrey
Gundred, Princess of England de St Omer of Flanders Born: Bef. 1050, Normandy, France
md. Bef. 1077, Normandy, France, to William I, Earl of Warrenne de Warenne
Died: 27 May 1085, Castle Acre, Acre, Norfolk, England
bur. Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England.
Gundreda is believed to have been the dau. of *Queen Matilda she died in 1085. This theory is supported by a charter of *William de Warren to Lewes Priory, in which he states that his donations, among others, were for Queen Matilda, the mother of his wife. It is conjectured that Grundreda and Gherbold the Fleming, created Earl of Chester, her brother, were the children of Queen Matilda by a former marriage, probably clandestine, and therefore not reported by the historians of the day.

Children with: William I, Earl of Warrenne de Warenne
□ Reginald de Warren
◌ Editha de Warenne

Siblings:
Henry I Beauclerc King of England
Constance Princess of England
Adaile (Alice) of Normandy Princess of England
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Princess Gundred was born abt. 1063 in Normandy, France. Princess Gundred's father was Guillaume I "Le Conquberant" de Normandie and her mother was Matilda Countess of Flanders Queen of England. Her paternal grand-father was Robert I "The Magnificent" Duke of Normandy and her paternal grand-mother is Harlette de Falaise; her maternal grand-parents were Baudouin V Count of Flanders and Adaele (Alix) Princess of France.
She had four brothers and six sisters, named Prince Robert II, Prince Richard, King William II "Rufus", King Henry I "Beauclerc", Princess Cecilia, Princess Alice or Adbelahide, Princess Mathilda, Princess Princess Constance, Adaele (Alice) and Princess Agatha.
She was the nineth oldest of the eleven children.
She died on 27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Acre, Norfolk, England. Her bur. was in Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England.
William de and Princess Gundred were md. in a religious ceremony bef. 1077 in Normandy, France. They had two sons and two daus., named William II, Reginald, Edith and Gundred.
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She has been listed as dau. of Gherbod Advocate of the Abbey of SAINT BERTIN
Matilda, Queen of England of FLANDERS
Abt. 1031 - 2 Nov 1083
BURIAL: Church Holy Trinity, Caen, Calvados, France
BIRTH: Abt. 1031, Flanders
DEATH: 2 Nov 1083, Caen, Calvados, France

Father: Baldwin V, Count of FLANDERS
Mother: Adelaide (Alix ADELE), PRINCESS OF FRANCE
Family 2 : Gherbod Advocate of the Abbey of SAINT BERTIN
MARRIAGE: Abt. 1050, Flanders
+Gundred, Princess of England, of FLANDERS
Gherbod, Earl of Chester, of FLANDERS
Family 1 : William the Conqueror, King of England, of NORMANDY
MARRIAGE: 1053, Castle of Angi, Normandy
Robert III Duke of NORMANDY Richard of NORMANDY Cecilia of NORMANDY Adelidis "Alice" of NORMANDY Margaret of NORMANDY William II "Rufus", King of ENGLAND Constance of NORMANDY Agatha Matilda of NORMANDY Anna of NORMANDY
Henry I "Beauclerc", King of ENGLAND
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Gundred's tombstone at St. John's Church, Southover, Lewes reads: "Within this Pew stands the tombstone of Gundrad, dau. of William the Conqueror, and wife of William, the First Earl of Warren, which having been deposited over her remains in the Chapter-House of Lewes Priory and lately discovered in Iffield Church, was removed to this place at the expense of William Burrell Esq. in 1775 A.D. Gundred died in childbirth at Castle Acre 27 May 1085, and was bur. in the Priory of Lewes in County Sussex."
from www.spaldinggenealogy.com
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Sources:
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166, II. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. The Boydell Press, 2002. p. 777.
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Gundred (also known as Gundreda or Gundrada) of Flanders, Countess of Surrey, was probably born in Flanders. She was the sister of Gerbod the Fleming, who became Earl of Chester.
Gundred md. William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, who rebuilt Lewes Castle, making it his chief residence. In 1078 he and Gundred founded a Cluniac Priory at Southover, adjoining Lewes, where both were bur.
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Title: Book: Royalty For Commoners
Author: Roderick W. Stuart Publication: Revised Second Editon, @1988, by Genealogical Publishing Company. Note: ABBR Book: Royalty For Commoners Page: 70
Interred: Chapter House, Lewes, Sussex
At one time it was thought that Gundred was the dau. of William the Conqueror. This has since been disproved. It is now accepted that Gundred, the wife of William de Warenne, was not a dau. of either William I (The Conqueror) or his wife Matilda.
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The Countess had died at Castle Acre, Norfolk, one of her husband's estates.
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Sister of Richard Goet, or Gouet
http://www.red1st.com/axholme/getperson.php?personID=I1750044511&tree=Axholme
According to the Plantagenêt Ancestry, an illegitimate dau. of Matilda of Flanders (wife of William the Conquerer)
http://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/3/3254.htm
or a first marriage
http://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/3/3119.htmhttp://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/3/3119.htm

Gundrada de Warenne d. 1085, wife of William de Warenne, first Earl of Surrey, was long supposed to have been a dau. either of William the Conqueror and his Queen Matilda of Flanders, or of Matilda by an earlier marriage with Gerbod, advocate of St. Bertin. There is, however, no contemporary evidence for either of these hypotheses, while there is a good deal that tells strongly, though indirectly, against both (Engl. Hist. Rev. No. xii. 680-701). All that is really known about Gundrada's parentage is that she was sister to Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester 1070-71 (Ord. Vit. ed. Duchesne, 522 A. C.; Liber de Hyda, p. 296), and therefore probably dau. of another Gerbod who was advocate of St. Bertin, 1026-67 (Archaeological Journal, iii. 16, 17). The date of her marriage with William de Warenne is not ascertained, but their second son was old enough to command troops in 1090 (Ord. Vit. 690 A); and that they were md. bef. 1077 is also shown by the appointment in that year of the first prior of St. Pancras at Lewes (Ann. Bermondsey, s.a. 1077), the earliest Cluniac house in England, of which they were joint founders. It is said that they had started on a pilgrimage to Rome, but owing to the war between the Pope and the Emperor they were obliged to content themselves with visiting divers monasteries in France and Burgundy; they made a long stay at Cluny, and the outcome of their gratitude for the hospitality which they experienced there was the foundation of Lewes priory (Monast. Angl. v. 12; Duckett, Charters of Cluni, i. 47, 48). The story comes from a fifteenth-century copy of a charter which purports to have been granted by William de Warenne himself, but which in its present form has almost certainly received interpolations; there seems, however, no reason to doubt the genuineness of this part of it. Gundrada had two sons, William, afterwards second Earl of Warenne and Surrey (Ord. Vit. 680 D), and Rainald (ib. 690 A and 815 A), and a dau., Edith, wife, first of Gerald de Gournay, and secondly of Drogo of Moncey (Cont. Will. of Jumièges, l. viii. c. 8). Dugdale (Baronage, i. 74) gives her another dau., md. to Erneis de Colungis or Coluncis, but the Roger, Erneis's son, who was "nepos Guillelmi de Garenna," was clearly something more than a boy when he entered the monastery of St. Evroul bef. 1089 (Ord. Vit. 574 C, 600 B), and must therefore have been not Gundrada's grand-son, but her husband's nephew. She died in child-birth, 27 May 1085, at Castle Acre, and was bur. in the chapter-house at Lewes (Dugdale, Baronage, i. 74, from register of Lewes). Her tombstone was found in Ifield Church (whither it had apparently been removed at the dissolution) at the end of the last century, and placed in St. John's Church, Southover (Lewes), where it now is; it is of black marble and bears an inscription in Latin verse, beginning "Stirps Gundrada ducum" (Watson, Mem. of Earls of Warren and Surrey, i. 59-60). Her remains, enclosed in a chest with her name on the lid, were discovered side by side with those of her husband on the site of Lewes priory in Oct 1845. The inscriptions on the lid and the tombstone seem to date from the early thirteenth century; the remains were probably removed from their original place and re-interred at that time, perhaps when the Church was rebuilt, 1243-68 (Journ. Archaeol. Assoc. i. 347-350).

Sources: To the references given above it need only be added that Mr. Freeman has enumerated all the materials for the Gundrada controversy, examined all that has been written about it, and summed up its results in the English Historical Review, No. xii. pp. 680-701, Oct 1888.
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Gundred's epitaph at Lewes Priory, 12th century. Victoria County History, Sussex, vol. 7, p. 49; the gravestone is now in Southover Church in Lewes.
+ STIRPS . GVNDRADA . DVCV' . DEC[VS] . EVI . NOBILE . GERMEN : INTVLIT . ECCLESIIS . ANGLORV' . BALSAMA . MORV' . MARTIR ... [F]VIT . MISERIS . FVIT . EX . PIETATE . MARIA . PARS . OBIIT . MARTHE . SVP'EST . PARS . MAGNA . MARIE . O. PIE . PANCRATI . TES[TIS . PIE]TATIS . ET . EQ[VI] . TE . FACIT . HEREDE' . TV . CLEMENS . SVSCIPE . MATREM . SEXTA . KALENDARV' . IVNII . LVX . OBVIA . CARNIS . I'FREGIT . ALABASTRV' ...
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/families/gundred/gundocs.shtml#epitaph
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Possible dau. of William. Disputed by various parties, who view her as a possible step-dau. or illegitimate dau. of a concubine.
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http://www.lewespriory.org.uk/gundrada_chapel http://sussexpast.co.uk/properties-to-discover/lewes-castle _________________________________________________________________________________ Gundred, sister of Gerbod the Fleming
Parents: unknown, NOT Matilda of Flanders, see evidence below.
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http://www.chesterwiki.com/Gherbod_the_Fleming
Gundred was NOT the dau. of William I of England/Normandy and Matilda of Flanders.
Late Lewes Priory tradition made her dau. of William the Conqueror by his spouse Matilda of Flanders (Bannerman, vol. IV, pp. 207-209; Burke, The Royal Families vol.1, "Descendants of William the Conqueror", pp. iv-v & pedigree LXVIII; Burke, The Roll of Battle Abbey, p. 106; Barlow, pp. 16 and 160), but this being impossible, Stapleton argued she was dau. of Matilda, born prior to her marriage to William. Waters and Freeman showed that this too could not be supported (Waters, Freeman). See Chandler for an extensive discussion.

The children of William de Warenne and Gundred were:
□ William II de Warenne (d. 11 May 1138), bur. in Lewes Priory.[5] [6]
□ Reginald de Warenne, an adherent of Robert of Normandy.[7]
◌ Edith de Warenne, md., firstly, Gerard, Baron de Gournay.[8]

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Gundred, Gundreda, or Gundrada (died 27 May 1085) was probably born in Flanders, sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester.[1]

References
Bannerman, W. Bruce, FSA., editor, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 4th series, London, 1912.
Barlow, Frank, The Feudal Kingdom of England 1012 - 1216, London, 1955.
Burke, John Bernard, The Roll of Battle Abbey, London, 1848.
Burke, John and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England Scotland and Wales, with Their Descendants etc., vol. 1 (1848), vol. 2 (1851), London.
Chandler, Victoria, "Gundrada de Warenne and the Victorian Gentleman-Scholars", Southern History 12 (1990):68-81
Dunbar, Sir Archibald, Bt., Scottish Kings, A Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005 - 1625, Edinburgh, 1899.
Freeman, Edward A., "The parentage of Gundrada, wife of William of Warren", English Historical Review 3 (1888):680-701.
Stapleton, Thomas, "Observations in disproof of the pretended marriage of William de Warren, Earl of Surrey, with a dau. begotten of Matildis, dau. of Baldwin, Comte of Flanders, by William the Conqueror, and illustrative of the origin and early history of the family in Normandy", The Archaeological Journal 3 (1846):1-26
Waters, Edmond Chester, "Gundreda de Warrenne", The Archaeological Journal 41 (1884):300-312
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Gundrada of NORMANDY
Father: William The CONQUEROR
Mother: Matilda Queen of ENGLAND
Birth: 1055, Normandy, France
Death: 27 May 1085, Castle Acre, Norfolk, England
Burial: Gundrada Chapel, Lewes, England
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BURIAL: Chapter-house, Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
BIRTH: 1053, France or Flanders
DEATH: 27 May 1085, Castle Acre, England
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Gundred, Gundreda, or Gundrada (died 27 May 1085) was probably born in Flanders , sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester.[1]
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http://thepeerage.com/p448.htm#i4478
Gundreda (?) d. 27 May 1085

Gundreda (?) md. William I de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, son of Rudolph de Warenne and Beatrice (?).1 She died on 27 May 1085. Child of Gundreda (?) and William I de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey.
William II de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey+2 d. ca. 11 May 1138
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http://www.renderplus.com/hartgen/htm/de-warenne.htm
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Gundred
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gundred, Countess of Surrey (died 27 May 1085) was probably born in Flanders, sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester.[1]
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The Countess had died at Castle Acre, Norfolk, one of her husband's estates.
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Gundred
Parents unknown. Possibly but doubtfully, Mathilda (w/o William I) and an earlier unknown husband.
From Medlands:
http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#GundredMWilliamWarenne
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Children with: William I, Earl of Warrenne de Warenne
Reginald de Warren
Editha de Warenne

Siblings:
Henry I Beauclerc King of England
Constance Princess of England
Adaile (Alice) of Normandy Princess of England
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She has been listed as dau. of Gherbod Advocate of the Abbey of SAINT BERTIN
Matilda, Queen of England of FLANDERS
Abt. 1031 - 2 Nov 1083
BURIAL: Church Holy Trinity, Caen, Calvados, France
BIRTH: Abt.1031, Flanders
DEATH: 2 Nov 1083, Caen, Calvados, France

Father: Baldwin V, Count of FLANDERS
Mother: Adelaide (Alix ADELE), PRINCESS OF FRANCE

Family 2 : Gherbod Advocate of the Abbey of SAINT BERTIN
MARRIAGE: Abt. 1050, Flanders
+Gundred, Princess of England, of FLANDERS
Gherbod, Earl of Chester, of FLANDERS Family 1 : William the Conqueror King of England of NORMANDY
MARRIAGE: 1053, Castle of Angi, Normandy
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Gundred's epitaph at Lewes Priory, 12th century. Victoria County History, Sussex, vol. 7, p.49; the gravestone is now in Southover Church in Lewes.

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