Gundred, Countess of Surrey
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Gundred or Gundreda was the Flemish-born wife of an early Norman baron, William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. She and her husband established Lewes Priory in Sussex.
Her Tournai marble memorial, illustrated in Charles Boutell's Christian monuments in England and Wales (1854)
Two leaden cists containing the remains of Gundred and her husband; chalk lithograph by F. W. Woledge after a drawing by R. H. Nibbs, 1845
Gerbod the Fleming, of Oosterzele, 1st Earl of Chester, was a hereditary advocate of the Abbey of Saint Bertin at Saint-Omer, County of Flanders and Earl of Chester in 1070.
Gundred, Countess of Surrey
…Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. She and her husband established Lewes Priory in Sussex. Gundred was almost certainly born in Flanders, and was a sister of Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester, and thus daughter of Gerbod, hereditary advocate of the Abbey of Saint Bertin. She is explicitly so called by Orderic Vitalis…
Ruins of Saint-Bertin Abbey at Saint-Omer