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Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey ( 1130 – 7 May 1202) (''alias'' Hamelin of Anjou and, anachronistically,"It is much to be wished that the surname "Plantagenet," which since the time of Charles II, has been freely given to all descendants of Geoffrey of Anjou, had some historical basis which would justify its use, for it forms a most convenient method of referring to the Edwardian kings and their numerous descendants. The fact is, however, as has been pointed out by Sir James Ramsay and other writers of our day, that the name, although a personal emblem of the aforesaid Geoffrey, was never borne by any of his descendants before Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York (father of Edward IV), who assumed it, apparently about 1448. V.G., ''
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Hamelin Plantagenet), was an Anglo- Angevin
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, being an elder half-brother of the first
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English monarch King Henry II.


Origins

He was an illegitimate son of Geoffrey of Anjou,
Count of Anjou The Count of Anjou was the ruler of the County of Anjou, first granted by Charles the Bald in the 9th century to Robert the Strong. Ingelger and his son, Fulk the Red, were viscounts until Fulk assumed the title of Count of Anjou. The Robertia ...
, the son-in-law of King
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. He was thus a half-brother of King
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, and an uncle to both King
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and King John.


Marriage and children

King Henry II arranged for him to marry Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey,John Guy, ''Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel'' (New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 2012), p. 161 the widow of William of Blois, one of the wealthiest heiresses in England, which marriage occurred in April 1164, following which he was recognised as ''Comte de Warenne'' (that being the customary designation for what more technically should be ''
Earl of Surrey Earl of Surrey is a title in the Peerage of England that has been created five times. It was first created for William de Warenne, a close companion of William the Conqueror. It is currently held as a subsidiary title by the Dukes of Norfolk ...
'') and adopted the surname ''de Warenne'', as did his descendants. By his wife he had one son and three daughters, as follows: * William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey, only son and heir, who married Maud Marshal, daughter of
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George Edward Cokayne, ''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., 1953), p. 500 n. g *Ela de Warenne, who married, firstly, Robert de Newburgh and, secondly, William FitzWilliam of Sprotborough. She was a mistress of her half-first cousinTechnically they were half first cousins, both being grandchildren of Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou by different mothers. See Schwenicke, ''Europaische Stammtaleln'' (ES), Band II, Tafeln 82, 83; ''ES'', III/3, tafel 355; Sheppard, 'Royal Bye Blows', ''NEHGR'', 119, 97. Her given name is not known for a certainty. King John, and by him was the mother of Richard FitzRoy,
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of
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, in
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. *Maud de Warenne (''alias'' Matilda), who married, firstly, Henry II, Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings, secondly, Henry d'Estouteville, Seigneur de Valmont. *Isabel de Warenne, who married, firstly, Robert de Lacy of Pontefract Castle in Yorkshire, and secondly, Gilbert de l'Aigle, Lord of Pevensey Castle in Sussex.


Career

Warenne was prominent at the royal court of King Henry II, and at those of his sons and successors King
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and King John. Warenne's lands in England centered on Conisbrough Castle in
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, which powerful castle he built. He also possessed the "third penny" (an entitlement to one third of the fines levied in the
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s) of his
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and held the castles of Mortemer and Bellencombre in
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. In 1164 Hamelin joined in the denunciations of
Thomas Becket Thomas Becket (), also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (21 December 1119 or 1120 – 29 December 1170), was an English nobleman who served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then ...
, Archbishop of Canterbury, although after Becket's murder he became a great believer in Becket's sainthood, having reportedly been cured of blindness by the saint's intervention. In 1176 he escorted his niece
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for her marriage, where she became Queen of Sicily. He remained loyal to Henry II through all the problems during the later part of his reign when many nobles deserted him, and continued as a close supporter of that king's eldest son and his own nephew, Richard I. During Richard's absence on the
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, he took the side of the regent William Longchamp. Hamelin was present at the second coronation of King Richard in 1194 and at King John's coronation in 1199.


Death and succession

He died in 1202 and was buried in the
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of
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in Sussex. He was succeeded by his son William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey.


References


Notes


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