f a m i l y Children with: Gundred, Princess of England de St Omer of Flanders Children: Reginald de Warren Editha de Warenne William I, Earl of Warrenne de Warenne Born: Abt 1055, Bellencombre, Seine Inferieure, France Married Bef 1077, Normandy, France, to Gundred, Princess of England de St Omer of Flanders Died: 24 Jun 1088, Penevesy, Lewes, Sussex, England buried Priory Of Lewes, Lewes, Sussex, England ----------------------------------------- William de Warren I, Earl of Warenne, came from Normandy, a near kinsman of William the Conqueror. He received large grants of land in recognition of the distinguished part he took at the battle of Hastings. He had large grants of land in several counties among which were the barony of Lewes, in Sussex, and the manors of Carletune and Benington, in Lincolnshire. So extensive indeed were those grants that his possessions resembled more the dominions of a sovereign prince than the estates of a subject. He enjoyed, too, in the highest degree, the confidence of the king, and was appointed joint Justice-General, with Richard de Benefactis, for administering justice throughout the whole realm. While in that office, some great disturbers of the public peace having refused to appear before him and his colleague, in obedience to citation, the Earl took up arms, and defeated the rebels in a battle at Fagadune, when he is said, for the purpose of striking terror, to have cut off the right foot of each of his prisoners. Of these rebels, Ralph Wahir or Gauder, Earl of Norfolk, and Roger, Earl of Hereford, were the ringleaders. He was likewise highly esteemed by King William Rufus, and was created by that monarch the first Earl of Surrey.

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