Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester
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Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of LeicesterWilliam de Warenne, 2nd Earl of SurreyNoble familyHouse of CapetFather
Hugh I, Count of VermandoisMother
Adelaide, Countess of VermandoisBorn
c. 1085
Died
c. 1147–1148
Elizabeth of Vermandois, or
Elisabeth or
Isabel de Vermandois (c. 1085–c. 1148), was the third daughter of
Hugh Magnus and
Adelaide of Vermandois,
[1] and as such represented both the
Capetian line of her paternal grandfather
Henry I of France, and the
Carolingian ancestry of her maternal grandfather
Herbert IV of Vermandois.
[2] As the wife of two
Anglo-Norman magnates,
Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and
William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, she is the ancestress of hundreds of well-known families down to the present time.
[3]Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester
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Elisabeth, Countess of VermandoisElizabeth of Vermandois
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Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of LeicesterWilliam de Warenne, 2nd Earl of SurreyNoble familyHouse of CapetFather
Hugh I, Count of VermandoisMother
Adelaide, Countess of VermandoisBorn
c. 1085
Died
c. 1147–1148