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Gundreda de Warenne

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25: 102: 244:, in a deal ironed out by Gundreda's father, Earl William. There are indications that Gundreda was dominant in her husband's council, occupying a leading place in his charters and notoriously forcing his change of side in 1153 to support Henry Plantagenet and abandon King Stephen by conspiring to surrender 239:
between 1135 and 1141. For Waleran the marriage helped secure his position in the English west midlands where the king had made him earl of Worcester. In 1138 Gundreda's infant daughter Agnes was similarly employed to settle a local war in Warwickshire by a marriage to Earl Roger's rebel vassal,
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in 1118 Isabel promptly married Earl William II de Warenne (died 1138) and since Gundreda had an infant daughter by 1138 it is most likely she was the eldest child of the marriage. The Flemish name Gundreda was given her in recollection of her father's mother
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to the Angevin party, a manoeuvre that is said to have caused the loyalist Earl Roger's death by a seizure when he heard of it. Gundreda made a second marriage to
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married in 1175 but predeceased him, for her dower manors had reverted to the earldom before William's death in 1184.
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Crouch, David "Geoffrey de Clinton and Roger, Earl of Warwick: New Men and Magnates in the Reign of Henry I",
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Gundreda had an appropriately considerable dower out of the estates of the earldom of four large manors in
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who died in or soon before 1170. She seems to have returned to Warwickshire after his death.
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Gundreda was married in or around 1136 to Earl Roger, who was 1st cousin of her half-brother,
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Crouch, "Geoffrey de Clinton and Roger, earl of Warwick", 113-24
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ed. David Crouch and Richard Dace (Dugdale Society, 48, 2015).
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The Newburgh Earldom of Warwick and its Charters, 1088-1253
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Roger, earl of Warwick
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William, earl of Warwick
Waleran, earl of Warwick
Hugh Bigod, earl of Norfolk
William II, earl Warenne
Isabel of Vermandois
Earl Roger
William II, earl Warenne
Isabel of Vermandois
Count Robert of Meulan and Leicester
Gundreda de Warenne
Count Waleran II of Meulan
King Stephen of England
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Warwickshire
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Earl William
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