Gundreda de Warenne

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Gundred de Warrene.
Gundred was the daughter of Reginald de Warren and his wife Alice, daughter and heir of William de Wormgay, Baron of Wormgay in Norfolk. She was married at least three times, first to Peter de Valognes, son of Roger de Volgnes; second to William de Courcy, son of William de Courcy and his wife Alice de Rumily; and lastly to Geoffroy de Hose. "Gundreda de Warrenna" donated "juris...in ecclesia de Dersingham" to Binham priory, for the souls of "domini mei Petri de Valoniis...", by undated charter [Stuart, J. (ed.) (1874) Registrum de Panmure compiled by Harry Maule of Kelly (Edinburgh) ("Panmure"), Vol. II, p. 114].

"Gundreda de Waren" claimed "ecclesiam de Newinham...advocationem" from the abbot of Abindon in 1194 through "in loco suo Gilone Hose", while "Henr de Godham senescallus Warin fil Gerald" also claimed it as "hereditas uxoris domini sui" [Maitland, F. W. (1891) Three Rolls of the King's Court in the reign of Richard I 1194-1195 (London), Rotulus Curiæ Regis, p. 35]. "Gundreda que fuit uxor Gaufr Huse" paid a fine for "custodia Gaufr filii et heredis sui cum tota terra sua" in Wiltshire, dated 1199 [Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus, p. 8]. The Testa de Nevill includes a list of landholdings in Yorkshire, dated 1219, which includes "Gundreda de Waren" holding land "in Niweham…in hundredo de Bulenden et de Soteleu" in Oxfordshire [Testa de Nevill, Part I, p. 252]. An order dated 6 Dec 1224 required the confiscation of "the vill of Newnham that Gundrea de Warenne held in dower, which is an inheritance partible between Joan wife of Hugh de Neville, and Margaret wife of Falkes de Bréauté", with savings for "the executors of the testament of the same Gundrea" [Fine Rolls Henry III, Roll C 60/22, 9 Hen III, 27].

• Background Information. ¹³⁴¹
William (III) de Courcy's second wife, Gundreda de Warenne, had Nuneham as her dower, and she probably lived there after her husband's death in 1176 [Som. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. lxvi. 109-10]. It was the enjoyment of this estate, presumably, which enabled her third husband, Geoffrey Huse, a Wiltshire man, to be appointed Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1179. By 1199 he too was dead and the marriage of Gundreda was again in the king's gift [Rot. de Ob. et Fin. (Rec. Com.), 8; Bk. of Fees, 252, 278]. She died in 1224.

The heirs to Nuneham were Gundreda's granddaughters, Joan and Margaret, both daughters of Gundreda's daughter Alice, but by different husbands. Joan had married Hugh de Neville. Margaret married first Baldwin de Riviers, son of William, Earl of Devon, and secondly Fawkes de Breaute.

'Parishes: Nuneham Courtenay', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5, pp. 234-249.

Gundreda married William de Courcy, son of Sir William de Courcy and Amice de Rumilly.¹³⁴¹ (William de Courcy was born in Stogursey, Williton, Somerset, England and died in 1176 in Irby, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England ¹³⁴¹.)