Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Surrey

Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey (c. 1130 1203) was an English peer. She was the only surviving heir of William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey, and his wife, Adela, the daughter of William III of Ponthieu.Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage, Vol. XII/1 (London" The St. Catherine Press, 1953), p. 498.Elisabeth van Houts, (2004) "The Warenne View of the Past 1066–1203", Anglo-Norman Studies XXVI, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2003, ed. John Gillingham. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, p. 103. ISBN 978-1-84615-205-4.
==Life==
Isabel was the great-granddaughter of the first Norman earl, William, and his Flemish wife Gundred. When her father died in the Holy Land in January 1148 she inherited the earldom of Surrey and was married in around 1153 to William of Blois, the younger son of King Stephen, who became earl in her right. The marriage occurred at a critical moment in The Anarchy as part of King Stephen's attempt to control the de Warenne lands.The couple did not have any children and William died in 1159. 
William FitzEmpress, younger brother of King Henry II, sought Isabel's hand in 1162 or 1163, but Thomas Becket refused a dispensation from affinity on the grounds of consanguinity. In April 1164, she married Hamelin of Anjou, a natural half-brother of King Henry, who became jure uxoris Earl of Surrey. Isabel died in 1203.
==Family==
Isabel and her second husband Hamelin had four surviving children:
*William, later 5th Earl of Surrey (1166–1240)Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. XII/1 (1953), pp. 500–503.
*Ela (born c. 1170, date of death unknown), married first Robert of Naburn and secondly William FitzWilliam of Sprotborough.Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. XII/1 (1953) p. 500, n. (g).
*Isabel, married first Robert de Lacy and secondly Gilbert de l'Aigle, Lord of Pevensey.
*Matilda, married first Henry, Count of Eu and Lord of HastingsThe Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 9, Yorkshire Archaeological Society (Bradbury, Agnew and Co., 1886), 300. and secondly Henry de Stuteville.
== Ancestry==
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