William de Warenne (9 February 1256 – 15 December 1286) was the only son of

John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (123127 September 1304) was a prominent English nobleman and military commander during the reigns of Henry III of England and Edward I of England. During the Second Barons' War he switched sides twice, end ...

and his wife Alice de Lusignan.Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard and William Ryland Beall, ''The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years'' (Genealogical Pub. Co., 1999), p. 184

Life

William married Joan, daughter of

Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford (c. 1220 – 1296) was the son and heir of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford, and chamberlain to Queen Eleanor. Early life Robert de Vere was born about 1220, the only son of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxfor ...

. They had the following children: *

John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey John de Warenne (24/30 June 1286 - June 1347), 7th Earl of Surrey, was the last Warenne earl of Surrey. Life John was born on either 24 or 30 June 1286 and baptised on 7 November of that year.He was the son of William de Warenne, the only son o ...

(June 1286 – June 1347) *

Alice de Warenne Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel (15 June 1287 – 23 May 1338) was an English noblewoman and heir apparent to the Earldom of Surrey. In 1305, she married Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel. Family Alice, the only daughter of William d ...

(15 June 1287 - 23 May 1338), wife of

Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1 May 128517 November 1326) was an English nobleman prominent in the conflict between King Edward II and his barons. His father, Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel, died in 1302, while Edmund was still a ...

. William was killed in a tournament at

Croydon Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a local government district of Greater London. It is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater London, with an extensi ...

in 1286, predeceasing his father. It has been suggested that this was murder, planned in advance by William's enemies. On the 6th Earl's death the title went to John, the only son of William.From William's Oxford Inquisition Post Mortem taken on the Friday after Epiphany, 15 Edw. I: ''"John his son, born at the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 14 Edw. I, is his next heir. "'
"Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 47: 633. William de Warrenna. Inq. (Oxford). Friday after Epiphany, 15 Edw. I".
Sharp, J.E.E.S, ed. (1906). ''Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 2, Edward I.'' London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. p.382. Accessed via Internet Archive. Retrieved 17 June 2021. John died without legitimate children, so on his death the title passed to Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, eldest son of Edmund FitzAlan and John's sister Alice.

Ancestry

External links

Inquisition Post Mortem
dated 1286.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warenne, William de 1256 births 1286 deaths 13th-century English people De Warenne family Heirs apparent who never acceded