Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester


Elizabeth of Vermandois, or Elisabeth or Isabel de Vermandois , was the third daughter of Hugh Magnus and Adelaide of Vermandois, 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. As the wife of two AngloNorman magnates, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester and William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, she is the ancestress of hundreds of wellknown families down to the present time.

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