Sir William de Warenne Earl of Surrey ^{1 2}

  Research Notes:

From http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593871749:
"William was the hier to the Earldom of Surrey, but died before his father; having been killed in a tournament at Croyden 'ambushed and cruelly slain by his rivals'. William was knighted at Winchester in 1285."

  Death Notes:

Killed in a tournament

  Noted events in his life were:

• Sub-granted for life: Bromfield and Yale, castle of Dinas Bran, 1284. by his father, John de Warenne. Castle Leonis (Holt Castle) was undoubtedly still under construction at that time.

• Knighted, 1285, Winchester Castle, Winchester, (Hampshire), England.

William married Joan de Vere, daughter of Robert III de Vere 5th Earl of Oxford and Alice de Sanford, about 1285. (Joan de Vere was born about 1258 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, died on 23 Nov 1293 and was buried in Lewes, Surrey, England.)

  Marriage Notes:

Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 83-29 has m. abt. 1285