Angouleme. She d. 9 Feb. 1290/1, and was bur. in Lewes Priory.[1] He d. 27 Sep. 1305, at Kennington, near London, aged about 7[2]0, and was bur. in Lewes priory. M.I.[3]
[William De Warenne, only s. and h. ap., m. in or before 1283, Joan, da. of Robert (De Vere). Earl of Oxford. He d. v.p., being killed at a tournament at Croydon, 15 Dec 1285, and was bur. in Lewes priory. His widow d. 21 Nov. 1293 and was bur. there].
VII. 1305, to 1317.
7 or 4. John (De Warenne), Earl. of Surrey and Earl of Sussex,[4] or Earl Warennne,[5] grandson and h., being posthumous s. and h. of William de Warenne and Joan his wife, both abovenamed; b. 29 June 1286; suc. his grandfather, as above. 27 Sep. 1305, and is styled in several of the numerous writs addressed to him from 1313 to 1325, "Earl of Surrey and Sussex" He was Knighted (by Ed. I. 22 May 1306, with Prince Edward[6] From 1306 to 1335 he was constantly in the Scotch wars; he obtained a grant in 1311 of the Castle and Honour of the Peak, co. Derby; assisted in the capture of Piers Gaveston at Scarborough in 1312; was one of the judges at the condemnation of the Earl of Lancaster in 1322; one of the twelve Lords appointed in Jan. 1326/7 as council to the young King, Ed. III,[7] a commissr. to treat with Scotland in 1327, and with France in 1331. In 1333, having assisted his cousin,[8]Edward Balliol, calling himself King of Scotland, he was cr. {{sc|Earl of Stratherne [S.] by hin, to whom there is a letter, dat, 2 March 1334, from Ed. III, recognising this grant. He was one of the mobles who witnessed, 22 July 1331. Balliol's surrender of part of Scotland to England. His Scotch Earldom was, of course, not recognised by David II. [S.], by whom it was bestowed elsewhere in 1343[9]. He was a councillor of Regency 1 July 1345. He m. (in his 20th year) 20 May 1306, with great state, Joauna,[10] only da. of Henry III, Count of Bar, by the Lady Eleanor Plantagenet.[11] ) 1st da. of Edward I. To her he was singularly unfaithful, and from her he ineffectually endeavoured to obtain a divorce on ground of a
precontract with Maud de Nerford, by whom he had many[12] children. He
- ↑ The statement, by Brooke, that he had a second wife, "Joane, da. of William, Lord Mowbray," is disproved by Vincent, as (consequently, of course), is the statement that follows that they had issue, John, of whom Warren of Poynton is descended." The Lady, if indeed she ever existed, would have been aged 67 or upwards at the death of Earl John's wife, Alice.
- ↑ His imperious temper was displayed (1) in assaulting and nearly killing Chief Justice Sir Alan Zouch, and his son, in Westin. Hall, about 1268, for which he was fined no less than 10,000 marks; (2) for his refusal to state in 1277 (under the new statute of Quo Warranto) by what right he held his lands, when (according to the well known story) he drew his sword, saying, magnificently, that by it his ancestor acquired their lands in the time of William the Bastard, and by it ["gladio teneo, gladio tenebo"] he would defend them. The picture (to prove the truth thereof) was painted by R. E. Pine, in 1770, for Sir George Warren, K.B. and is engraved in Watson's "Earls of Warren," see p. 323, note "d."
- ↑ The sum. to Parl. as Earl of Surrey and Sussex the inscription on his tomb at Lewes was merely "Sire Johan, Count de Gareyn.
- ↑ See p. 327, note "b."
- ↑ See p. 324, note "a," as to the style of "Earl Warenne."
- ↑ No less than 263 are said to have been knighted at that date.
- ↑ See vol. iii, p. 239, note "d," sub "Percy," for their names.
- ↑ Isabel Warenne, the Earl's aunt, was mother, by King John Balliol [S.], of the said Edward Balliol.
- ↑ He himself continued the use of it till his death, and "Strathern" appears among his titles in his will; see p. 329, note "c."
- ↑ The same date that her cousin. Lady Eleanor de Clare, m. Hugh Le Despencer.
- ↑ They were m. at Bristol, Sep. 1293.
- ↑ Among these were William de Warenne (elder of the two sons of that name) and Edward de Warenne, who in all probability is the Sir Edward Warren, living temp. Ed. III., ancestor of the house of Warren of Poynton, co. Chester, whose arms
