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
William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, Lord of Lewes, Seigneur de Varennes, was a Norman nobleman created Earl of Surrey by William II Rufus. He is among the few known from documents to have fought u
Gundred, Countess of Surrey
…Gundred or Gundreda (Latin: Gundrada) (died 27 May 1085) 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. Gundred was almost certainly born in Flanders, and was a sister of Gerbod the Fleming, 1st…
A stained glass window, depicting Warenne, in St John the Baptist Church, Southother, Sussex