Adela de Warenne (born c. 1170) was an Anglo-Angevian noblewoman and the mistress of her half-first cousin King John.
Family
editAdela was born about 1170. She had a brother, William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey and two sisters.[1]
Her father was Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, the illegitimate son of Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou, who was born when Geoffrey was estranged from his wife, Empress Matilda.[2] He was the half-brother of King Henry II of England and was loyal to his brother. He became jure uxoris Earl of Surrey on his marriage and adopted her surname de Warenne.[3][4]
Her mother was Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey, the widow of William of Blois, Count of Boulogne,[5] the second son of Stephen, King of England and Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne. Isabel was of the wealthiest heiresses in England as the only surviving child of William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey and his wife, Adela of Ponthieu, Countess of Surrey.[4]
Marriages
editAdela married firstly Robert de Newburgh.[2]
She married secondly, William Fitz-William of Sprotborough.[6] They had a son, Sir Thomas Fitz-William.[7]
She also became "associated with"[8] her half-first cousin King John, as his mistress. They were both grandchildren of Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou by different mothers.[9] They had one illegitimate child Richard FitzRoy,[10] Baron Chilham (c. 1190), also known as Richard of Dover, Richard Fitzroy, Richard Fitz-John and Ricardo filio Regis. He married Rohese de Dover, daughter and heiress of Fulbert de Dover and had issue.[11]
References
edit- ^ Cokayne, George Edward. (1953) The complete peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times, Vol. XII/1, Ed. Geoffrey H. White. London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd. p. 500.
- ^ a b Connolly, Sharon Bennett (30 January 2015). "Hamelin de Warenne, the King's Brother". History... the interesting bits!. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ Keefe, Thomas K. (23 September 2004). "Warenne, Hamelin de, earl of Surrey [Earl Warenne] (d. 1202), magnate". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28732?rskey=ktg3ty&result=1. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ a b Connolly, Sharon Bennett (14 January 2023). "Isabel and Hamelin de Warenne: Marriage and Partnership". History... the interesting bits!. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ van Houts, Elisabeth (2004), Gillingham, John (ed.), "The Warenne View of the Past, 1066–1203", Anglo-Norman Studies 26: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2003, Boydell & Brewer, pp. 103–122, ISBN 978-1-84615-205-4, retrieved 17 December 2024
- ^ Sanders, Ivor John (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent, 1086-1327. Clarendon Press. p. 111.
- ^ Collins, Arthur (1750). A Supplement to the Four Volumes of The Peerage of England: Containing a Succession of the Peers from 1740; with Accounts of Those who Have Been Promoted to Higher Titles. And a Genealogical History of All the Families Since Advanced to the Peerage of this Kingdom. Their Births, Marriages, and Issues; Places of Burial, and Epitaphs: with Memoirs of Their Famous Actions, and Employments, Both in War and Peace, Never Before Printed. Also, Their Paternal Coats of Arms, Crests, and Supporters, Curiously Engraven on Copper Plates ... W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Wotton, R. Manby and H. S. Cox, and E. Withers.
- ^ Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. Douglas Richardson. ISBN 978-1-4610-4513-7.
- ^ Weir, Alison (2008). Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-09-953973-5.
- ^ Given-Wilson, Chris; Curteis, Alice (6 November 2023). The Royal Bastards of Medieval England. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-003-81344-6.
- ^ Cassidy, Richard (2011). Rose of Dover (d.1261), Richard of Chilham and an Inheritance in Kent (PDF). Archaeologia Cantiana. 131. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2024.