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
A stained glass window, depicting Warenne, in St John the Baptist Church, Southother, Sussex
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.
William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey
…Hereward is supposed to have unhorsed him with an arrow shot. Sometime between 1078 and 1082 William and his wife Gundred travelled to Rome, visiting monasteries on the way. In Burgundy they were halted by a war between Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. They visited…
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