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

  Information about this person:

• Background Information.
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 . . ., 8th Edition, 50:24, 53:24, 66:24, 83:24, 84:24, 88:24, 89:24, 93:24, 140:24, 141:24, 151:25, 215:24 ¹⁶⁰

Isabella married Sir Robert de Beaumont Earl of Leicester, son of Roger de Beaumont Lord Pont Audemer and Adeline Comtessa de Mellet, in 1096 in France ¹⁴¹.^,160 (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, France ¹⁴¹.)

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