Hamelin Plantagenêt Earl of Surrey

  General Notes:

~Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry, pg. 188 ⁵⁹⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ¹⁴¹
Hamelin was the illegitimate son of Geoffrey V, styled "Plantagenêt," comté de Anjou, Touraine et Maine. By an unknown woman, he held lands in Touraine, presumably the gift of his half-brother Henry II, and appears to have been styled vicomte de Touraine. He became earl of Surrey with his marriage to the Countess Isabel in 1164; in which year he attended the Council of Northampton. In 1166 he returned his carta, as holding 60 knights' fees.

Hamelin supported the King against his rebellious sons in 1173. In 1176, he was one of the nobles who escorted Henry's daughter Joan for her marriage to the King of Sicily. He was present at the 1st Coronation of Richard I, 3 Sep 1189. In the King's absence he supported the Chancellor against John; in 1193 he was one of the Treasurers for the King's ransom; and in 1194 he was at the Council of Nottingham. At Richard's second Coronation, 17 April 1194, he bore one of the 3 swords. He also was present at the Coronation of King John, 27 May 1199. He was a benefactor, or confirmed previous gifts, to the abbeys of St. Mary's (York), St. Victor-en-Caux, West Dereham and Foucarmont, the priories of Lewes, Nostell, St. Katherine (Lincoln), Southwark, Thetford and Castle Acre, the Hospitallers, and the chapel of St. Philip and St. James in Conisborough Castle.

Hamelin married, in 1164 (probably in April), Isabella, widow of William de Blois, 4^th Earl of Surrey, and only daughter and heir of William de Warren, 3^rd Earl of Surrey. The childern of Hamelin and Isabella were: William, sixth earl of Surrey; Ela, married first to Robert de Newbum, and for a second time to William Fitz William of Spotborough; Isabella, whose first husband was Robert de Lacy, and her second, Gilbert Laigle, lord of Pevensey; and Maud, married first to Henri, comté d'Eu and lord of Hastings, and her second husband was Henry d'Estouteville or de Stuteville, of Eckington, Derbyshire, and Dedham, Essex, lord of Valmont and Rames in Normandy.

Hamelin died on 7 May 1202 and was buried in the Chapter House at Lewes. Isabel survived him and made gifts for the soul of her late husband to the priory of St. Katherine, Lincoln, and to Lewes Priory. She was living in April 1203 but died soon afterwards, possibly 12 July 1203. She was buried in the Chapter House at Lewes.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Surry), Vol. XIIA pp. 499-500

Hamelin married Isabelle de Warenne, daughter of William Warenne Earl of Warren & Surrey and Hele comtesse de Alençon, in Apr 1164 ¹⁴¹.^,599 (Isabelle de Warenne was born in Sussex, England, died about 12 Jul 1203 in Sussex, England ¹²⁹ and was buried in Priory of Lewes, Lewes, Sussex, England ¹⁴¹.)