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Personal data Isabel Elisabeth van Vermandois 

• She was born in the year 1085.

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-1096) below 16 years (11).

• (Levens event) .Source 1

  Elizabeth of Vermandois, or Elisabeth or Isabel de Vermandois (c.?1085–c.?1148), was the third daughter of Hugh Magnus and Adelaide of Vermandois,[1] and as such represented both the Capetian line of her paternal grandfather Henry I of France, and the Carolingian ancestry of her maternal grandfather Herbert IV of Vermandois.[2] As the wife of two Anglo-Norman magnates, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, she is the ancestress of hundreds of well-known families down to the present time.[3]
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  Countess of Leicester
  
  In 1096, Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan reputed to be "the wisest man in his time between London and Jerusalem" insisted, in deference to the laws of the church, on marrying a very young Elizabeth, he being over fifty at the time.[4] In early 1096 Bishop Ivo, on hearing of the proposed marriage, wrote a letter banning the marriage and preventing its celebration on the grounds the two were related within prohibited degrees. In April of that year Elizabeth's father count Hugh left on Crusade, his last act being to see his daughter married to count Robert. The crusader was able to convince Pope Urban to issue a dispensation for the marriage which then went forward.[2][4]
  
  Her husband was a nobleman of some significance in France, having inherited lands from his maternal uncle Henry, Count of Meulan, and had fought at the Battle of Hastings as a known companion of William the Conqueror.[5][6] He was rewarded with ninety manors in the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and Wiltshire.[7] The count of Meulan was one of Henry I's "four wise counsellors and was one of the king's commanders at the Battle of Tinchebray 28 September 1106.[8] In 1107 Robert became Earl of Leicester.[9]
  Countess of Surrey
  
  Elizabeth, Countess of Meulan apparently tired of her aging husband at some point during the marriage. The historian James Planché says (1874) that the Countess was seduced by or fell in love with a younger nobleman, William de Warenne for whom she left her husband Robert.[10] William II de Warenne had sought a royal bride in 1093 in a failed attempt to wed Edith who later married Henry I,[11] but obtained a bride of royal blood when he married Elizabeth in 1118, at the death of Earl Robert.[12] Elizabeth survived her second husband William, dying c.? 1147–1148

• She died in the year 1148, she was 63 years old.
• A child of Hugo I "de Grote" de Vermandois and Adelaide de Vermandois
• This information was last updated on January 31, 2013.

Household of Isabel Elisabeth van Vermandois

(1) She is married to Robert I van Beaumont.

They got married in the year 1096, she was 11 years old.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. Robert II van Beaumont  1104-1168
2. Waleran IV van Meulan  1104-1166 

(2) She is married to William II van Warenne.

They got married in the year 1118, she was 33 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. William III van Surrey  
2. Gundrada van Warenne  
3. Ralph van Warenne  
4. Reginald van Warenne  
5. Ada van Warenne  1120-1178 

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