William de Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey
- Born: Abt 1174, Surrey, England
- Marriage (1): Maud Marshal on 13 Oct 1225
- Died: 27 May 1240, London, England about age 66
- Buried: Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex, England
Research Notes:
Second husband of Maud Marshal.
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5th Earl of Surrey (1202-1240); warden of the Cinque Ports (1216); named in the Magna Carta. William's estates in Normandy were confiscated in 1204, when Philip II of France (RIN # 4649) seized the duchy. He supported King John of England against the barons and in 1215 acted as one of the king's guarantors for the keeping of the Magna Carta. However, the following year he supported Prince Louis, son of Philip II of France, when he tried to wrest England from John; even so, after the King's death later that year he declared himself a loyal vassal of his infant son and successor, Henry III. His lands were restored in 1221. During the 1220's and 1230's William took an active part in politics, and in 1238 he was appointed a treasurer of royal taxes.
!Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry: 52
To compensate for the loss of his lands in Normandy, King John granted William Grantham and Stamford in Lincolnshire. In 1212, he was committed to the custody of 4 castles, Bamburgh and Newcastle-on-Tyne being two of them. In 1237, William was reprimanded by the Bishop of Lincoln for having mass at his home at Grantham, because it had not been consecrated.
William married Maud Marshal, daughter of Sir William Marshal 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare, on 13 Oct 1225. (Maud Marshal was born about 1192 in <Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales>, christened in Sep 1201, died on 27 Mar 1248 and was buried in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthshire, Wales.)
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