JOHN PLANTAGNENT EARL WARENNE, EARL SURREY^{[1, 2]}

1231 - 1305  (74 years)

• Name	JOHN PLANTAGNENT EARL WARENNE
  Suffix	EARL SURREY
  Birth	Aug 1231	WARREN, SUSSEX, , ENGLAND   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Sep 1304/1305	Kennington, Surrey, England   [1, 2, 4]
  Notes	7TH EARL SURREY EARL OF SUSSEX,AND WARENNE BURIED LEWES IN 1278, JOHN WAS QUESTIONED AS TO HIS TITLE TO THE LANDS *HE BROUGHT TO COURT AN ANCIENT RUSTY SWORD SAYING "HERE MY LORD IS MY WARRENT MY ANCESTOR COMING WITH WILLIAM THE BASTARD WON THEIR LANDS WITH THIS SWORD, AND WITH THIS SWORD I WILL HOLD THEM AGAINST ALL COMERS" HIS TITLE WAS ASSURED 7TH EARL OF SURREY,SUSSEX AND WARENNE WIFE ALFAIR UTERINE IS SISTER TO KING HENRY 111 AT THE BATTLE OF LEWYS 1264 HE SERVED ON EDWARD 1ST SIDE. BUT DESERTED HIM IN THE SCOTTISHWARS AT DUNBAR 1296 AND AT CARLAVEROCK IN 1300 ANC ROOTS P 85 LINE 83 John was the leader of the English forces which lost to William Wallacein the battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 as depicted in the film"Braveheart". John de Warren (Plantagenet), Earl of Warren and Surrey, was but fiveyears of age at the time of his father's decease, and was placed in wardwith Peter de Savoy, the Queen's brother. When he attained majority, heattached himself zealously to Henry III in his conflicts with the baronsand maintained the cause of the king with his sword at the battle ofLewes. His lordship was a person of violent and imperious temper and wasoften betrayed into acts of great intemperance, as in the instance ofassaulting Sir Alan Zouch and his son, Roger, in Westminster Hall, whenhe almost killed the one and wounded the other. And again, when Edward Iissued the first writs of Quo Warranto, his lordship being questioned asto the title of his possessions, exhibited to the justices an old swordand unsheathing it said, "Behold my lords, here is my warranty; myancestors coming into this land with William the Bastard, did obtaintheir lands by the sword, and I am resolved with the sword to defend themagainst whomsoever shall endeavour to dispossess me, but our progenitorswere sharers and assistants therein." The earl was constituted, by KingEdward, general of all his forces on the north of Trent for the betterrestraining the insolences of the Scots; whereupon he marched intoScotland and so terrified the inhabitants that they immediately sued forpeace and gave hostages for their future good conduct. But the war soonafter breaking out afresh, his lordship sustained a signal defeat atStrivelin where his troops fled first to Berwick, and thence intoEngland. The earl m. 1st, 1247, Alice, dau. of Hugh le Brun, Count de laMarch, and half sister by the mother of King Henry III, and 2ndly, Joan,dau. of William, Lord Mowbray, and by the former only had issue, William,Alianore, and Isabel. His lordship d. in 1304, and was s. by hisgrandson, John de Warren (Plantagenet). [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant,Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London,1883, p. 569, Warren, Earls of Surrey] John was the leader of the English forces which lost to William Wallacein the battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 as depicted in the film"Braveheart". John de Warren (Plantagenet), Earl of Warren and Surrey, was but fiveyears of age at the time of his father's decease, and was placed in wardwith Peter de Savoy, the Queen's brother. When he attained majority, heattached himself zealously to Henry III in his conflicts with the baronsand maintained the cause of the king with his sword at the battle ofLewes. His lordship was a person of violent and imperious temper and wasoften betrayed into acts of great intemperance, as in the instance ofassaulting Sir Alan Zouch and his son, Roger, in Westminster Hall, whenhe almost killed the one and wounded the other. And again, when Edward Iissued the first writs of Quo Warranto, his lordship being questioned asto the title of his possessions, exhibited to the justices an old swordand unsheathing it said, "Behold my lords, here is my warranty; myancestors coming into this land with William the Bastard, did obtaintheir lands by the sword, and I am resolved with the sword to defend themagainst whomsoever shall endeavour to dispossess me, but our progenitorswere sharers and assistants therein." The earl was constituted, by KingEdward, general of all his forces on the north of Trent for the betterrestraining the insolences of the Scots; whereupon he marched intoScotland and so terrified the inhabitants that they immediately sued forpeace and gave hostages for their future good conduct. But the war soonafter breaking out afresh, his lordship sustained a signal defeat atStrivelin where his troops fled first to Berwick, and thence intoEngland. The earl m. 1st, 1247, Alice, dau. of Hugh le Brun, Count de laMarch, and half sister by the mother of King Henry III, and 2ndly, Joan,dau. of William, Lord Mowbray, and by the former only had issue, William,Alianore, and Isabel. His lordship d. in 1304, and was s. by hisgrandson, John de Warren (Plantagenet). [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant,Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London,1883, p. 569, Warren, Earls of Surrey]
  Person ID	I2051	Wilson-Maynard Family Tree
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2002

  
  

  Father	William de Warenne, , 6th Earl of Surrey,   b. 1166, Lewes, Sussex, England d. 27 May 1240, London, England (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Maud (Matilda) Marshall, [COUNTESS OF NOR,   b. Abt 1192, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d. 1 Apr 1248, of Framlingham, co. Norfolk, England (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	1225	Surrey, England   [5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F892	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice (Alfais) De Lusignan, [Countess of Sur],   b. 1224, LUSIGNAN, VIENNE, , FRANCE d. 9 Feb 1290/1291, WARREN, SUSSEX, , ENGLAND (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	1247
  Children	1. ELEANOR PLANTAGENET WARREN,   b. 1250/1258, ALNWICK, , NRTHUMB, ENGLAND d. 1282 (Age 24 years)   2. ISABELLE WARENNE,   b. ALNWICK, NORTHUMBER, , ENGLAND   3. William Plantagent Warenne, Sir Kngt,   b. 15 Jan 1256, WARREN, SUSSEX, , ENGLAND d. 15 Dec 1285, CROYDON, SURRY, , ENGLAND (Age 29 years)
  Family ID	F866	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Aug 1231 - WARREN, SUSSEX, , ENGLAND Death - 27 Sep 1304/1305 - Kennington, Surrey, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

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