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• Hij is overleden op 20 juni 1088.Bron 1

  Oorzaak: aan verwondingen opgelopen tijdens het onderdrukken van een rebellie

• Een kind van Rudolf I I van Warenne en Emma
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Gezin van Willem I van Warenne

Hij is getrouwd met Gundred.

Zij zijn getrouwdBron 1

Kind(eren):

1. Willem I I van Warenne  ± 1071-1138 

Notities over Willem I van Warenne

William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, (died 1088) was one of the Norman nobles who fought at the Battle of Hastings and became great landowners in England.
He was a son of Rodulf II de Warenne and Emma and a grandnephew of duchess Gunnor, wife of duke Richard I of Normandy. The de Warenne surname derives from the hamlet named Varenne located on the river Varenne, which flows through the territory William acquired in Upper Normandy in the region today called Bellencombre.
As a young man, William played a prominent role in protecting the Norman realm of the future William the Conqueror's from a major invasion by the King of France in February 1054 at the Battle of Mortemer. After this battle Roger de Mortemer forfeited most of his lands, and the duke gave them to William.
William was one of the nobles who advised duke William when the decision to invade England was being considered. He is said to have fought at Hastings, and afterwards received the Rape of Lewes in Sussex, and subsequently lands in twelve other shires. He built castles at Lewes (Sussex), Reigate (Surrey), Castle Acre (Norfolk) and Conisbrough in Yorkshire. By the time of the Domesday survey he was one of the wealthiest landholders in England with holdings in 12 counties.

He fought against rebels at the Isle of Ely in 1071 where he showed a special desire to hunt down Hereward the Wake who had murdered his brother the year before.
William was loyal to William II, and it was probably in early 1088 that he was created Earl of Surrey. He died shortly afterwards of wounds he received while helping suppress the rebellion of 1088.
He married twice:
First, Gundred (Latin: Gundrada), sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester.
Second, to a sister of Richard Gouet

Children of William and Gundred
- William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (d. 1138)
- Edith de Warenne who married Gerard de Gournay
- Reynold de Warenne, who inherited lands from his mother in Flanders and died before 1118
(bron: en.wikipedia.org)

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