Isabella de Vermandois Countess of Leicester

  General Notes:

~Schwennicke (ed.) Europaische Stammtafeln, iii, 699. She was the widow of Robert de Beaumont, count of Meulan and Earl of Leicester.

~Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III, p. 35, m. to Robert de Beaumont, Vol. II. p. 18, daughter of Adelaide, Comtessa de Vermandois et Valois, and Hugh the Great, Duke of France and Burgundy, Marquis de Orleans. ⁵³⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Isabel de Vermandois, was the daughter of Adelaide de Vermandois and Hugh Magnus II, Duke of France and Burgundy, Marquis of Orleans, Count of Amiens, Chaumont, Paris, Valois and Vermandois & a leader of the first Crusade. Isabel married first, Sir Robert de Beaumont, Lord of Beaumont, Port-Audemer and Brionne, Count of Meulan, created Earl of Leicester, Companion of William the Conqueror at Hastings 1066, son of Roger de Beaumont and Adelise, dauhter of Walera, Count of Melan. Isabel's second husband was Willaim de Warenne, second earl of Surrey, son of William de Warenne and Gundred sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 50:24, 53:24, 66:24, 83:24, 84:24, 88:24, 89:24, 93:24, 140:24, 141:24, 151:25, 215:24

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Isabel de Vermandois.
Orderic Vitalis records that in 1096 "Hugo Crispeii comes" placed "Radulfo et Henrico filiis suis" in charge of his land, married "Ysabel filiam suam" to "Rodberto de Mellento comiti", and left on pilgrimage taking "secum nobile agmen Francorum" [Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. III, Liber VII, IV, p. 480]. Guillaume of Jumièges records that "secundus Willelmus de Warenna comes Surreiæ...tertius Willelmus filius eius" was born to "Elizabeth filia Hugonis Magni comitis Viromandorum", who had first married "Roberto comiti Mellenti" by whom she had "tres filios et totidem filias" [Willelmi Gemmetencis Historiæ (Duchesne, 1619), Liber VIII, XL, p. 278].

Isabella married Sir Robert de Beaumont Earl of Leicester, son of Roger de Beaumont Lord Pont Audemer and Adeline comtessa de Meulan, in 1096 in France ¹⁴¹.^,197 (Sir Robert de Beaumont Earl of Leicester was born about 1049 in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France,⁵³⁰ died on 5 Jun 1118 in Leicestershire, England ^141,530 and was buried in Préaux, Normandy ¹⁴¹.)

Isabella next married William de Warenne Earl de Warren & Surrey, son of William de Warenne Earl of Surrey and Warenne and Gundred of Flanders.⁵³⁰ (William de Warenne Earl de Warren & Surrey was born about 1071 in Sussex, England, died on 11 May 1138 in Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex ^141,530 and was buried in 1138 in Lewes Priory, Lewes, Sussex ¹⁴¹.)