Gundrada

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 27 May 1085.

Place of Death: Castle Acre, Norfolk.

This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:494).

Place of Burial: Lewes.

The tombstone is described by van Houts (pp. 107-110).

Relationships

Father: Gerbod, hereditary advocate of St Bertin.

This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: William (I) de Warenne (died 1088), early of Surrey. Married within a few years of 1066.

This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 777), and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:494).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

William (II) de Warenne (died 1138), earl of Surrey. Married Isabel de Vermandois in 1118 or 1119.

Rainald de Warenne.

Edith married (1) Gerard de Gournay, lord of Gournay-en-Bray; married (2) Drew de Monchy.

References

Anderson, Freda. “‘Uxor Mea: The First Wife of the First William of Warenne” in Sussex Archaeological Collections volume 130 (Oxford University Press, 1992), pages 107-129.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volume 12/1.

Hollister, C. Warren. “Warenne, William (II) de, second earl of Surrey (d. 1138)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Lewis, C.P. “Warenne, Gundrada de (d. 1085)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007.

Lewis, C.P. “Warenne, William (I) de, first earl of Surrey (d. 1088)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004.

Van Houts, Elisabeth. "The Warenne View of the Past 1066-1203" in Anglo-Norman Studies XXVI (2003) pp. 104-121.