Pedigree report of Edith De Varennes, daughter of Guillaume Ier De Varennes and Gundrade De Normandie, born in 1080. GUNDRED (-Castle Acre, Norfolk 27 May 1085, bur Lewes Priory). sont Wim Vandersloten, Raymond et Roger Van Meldert qui ont tous Her remains, enclosed in a chest with her name on the lid, were discovered side by side with those of her husband on the site of Lewes priory in October 1845.
Other sources suggest that she is daughter of Matilda from a relationship with Gerbod the Fleming prior to her marriage to William the Conqueror.^ Burke, The Roll of Battle Abbey, pps: 57, and 105-106^ Burke, The Royal Families , vol. 680-701).
(Chron. PIETATE . Across the upper part of the right arch is the name Gvndrada.
Assuming the charter is genuine, it is presumably possible that "matris" was intended in the context to indicate a quasi-maternal relationship, such as foster-mother or godmother.
680-701, October 1888.Gundred's epitaph at Lewes Priory, 12th century.
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Her burial was in Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England.William De and Gundred Princess Of were married in a religious ceremony before 1077 in , , Normandy, France. [9]^ She is explicitly so called by Orderic Vitalis, as well as the chronicle of Hyde Abbey.
William I King of England granted the city of Chester and large areas surrounding it to Gerbod, avoué of the abbey of St Bertin in Flanders, in early 1070, whereby he is considered to have been created Earl [of Chester].
Vit. EX . Rev. Prior to re-interring the remains in this chapel, both cysts were opened to ascertain if there were any contents, which was found to be the case. xii. Duchesne, 522 A. C.; Liber de Hyda, p. 296), and therefore probably daughter of another Gerbod who was advocate of St. Bertin, 1026-67 (Archaeological Journal, iii. GVNDRADA . délicieuse chronique familiale écrite par Anne Waters and Freeman showed that this too could not be supported (Waters, Freeman).
Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. This theory is supported by a charter of *William de Warren to Lewes Priory, in which he states that his donations, among others, were for Queen Matilda, the mother of his wife. In 1078 he and Gundred founded a Cluniac Priory at Southover, adjoining Lewes, where both were buried.The Countess had died at Castle Acre, Norfolk, one of her husband's estates.In the course of the centuries which followed both tombstones disappeared from the priory but in 1774 William Burrell, Esq., an antiquary, discovered Gundred's in Isfield Church (seven miles from Lewes), over the remains of Edward Shirley, Esq., (d. 1550), whose father John was Clerk of the Kitchen to King Henry VII, and had it removed on October 2, 1775, to St. John's Church, Southover, the nearest place to its original site, and placed inside and at the south-west corner of the church, where, until 1847, it could be seen on the floor between pews with a very fine inscription detailing its origins etc.In 1845, during excavations through the Priory grounds for the South Coast Railway, the lead chests containing the remains of the Earl and his Countess were discovered, and deposited temporarily, for the next two years, beneath Gundred's tombstone. 2.
In 1078 he and Gundred founded a Cluniac Priory at Southover, adjoining Lewes, where both were buried. [1]Gundred married William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey (d. 20 June 1088), who rebuilt Lewes Castle, making it his chief residence.
xii. 2, pages v and vii.Bannerman, W.Bruce, FSA., editor, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 4th series, London, 1912Barlow, Frank, The Feudal Kingdom of England 1012 - 1216, London, 1955Burke, John Bernard, The Roll of Battle Abbey, London, 1848Burke, John and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England Scotland and Wales, with Their Descendants etc., vol. Gundred was almost certainly born in Flanders, and was a sister of Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester.
Geneanet utilise des cookies à des fins de personnalisation de contenu dans ses différents services. Disputed by various parties, who view her as a possible step-daughter or illegitimate daughter of a concubine.Parents: unknown, NOT Matilda of Flanders, see evidence below.Decisive negative evidence as to a relationship with William, seems to exist as a letter from Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, to king Henry I, in which Anselm refuses to condone the marriage of Gundreda's son (William de Warenne) to a daughter of the king, because they were related in the fourth generation on one side and the sixth generation on the other ["Qu%C3%A6rit consilium celsitudo vestra quid sibi faciendum sit de hoc quia pacta est filiam suam dare Guillelmo de Vuarenne; cum ipse et filia vestra ex una parte sint cognati in quarta generatione, et ex altera in sexta."
Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/1, page 494.
Edith de Warenne, married, firstly, Gerard, Baron de Gournay.According to the Plantagenet Ancestry, an illegitimate daughter of Matilda of Flanders (wife of William the Conquerer)Gundrada de Warenne d. 1085, wife of William de Warenne, first Earl of Surrey, was long supposed to have been a daughter either of William the Conqueror and his Queen Matilda of Flanders, or of Matilda by an earlier marriage with Gerbod, advocate of St. Bertin. 2, page v.^ Burke, The Royal Families , vol. Fille de Guillaume Ier le Conquérant de Normandie, roi d'Angleterre (14 octobre 1024 Falaise - Hermeville 09 septembre 1087) et de Mathilde de Flandres (1032 - Caen 02 novembre 1083). Le personnage central est Jean van Hoegaerden, admis dans la ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. [2][3][4][5] She is explicitly so called by Orderic Vitalis,[6] as well as the chronicle of Hyde Abbey[7] She was also sister of Frederick of Oosterzele-Scheldewindeke, who was killed c.1070 by Hereward the Wake.