Parents
Father: Earl Henry I of Warwick
Born: 1048
Married: Unknown
Died: June 20, 1123
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Mother: Princess Marguerite of Perche
Born: 1080
Died: 1145
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Children:
1. Earl Roger Newburgh II of Warwick (b.1101)
2. Lord Robert of Newbourg (b.1102)
3. Lord Henry of Warwick (b.1104)
4. Lord Goeffroy of Warwick (b.1106)
5. Archbishop Rotrou of Rouen (b.1109)
Note: The first who bore the title of Earl of Warwick, after the Norman Conquest, was Henry of Newburgh (so called from the castle of that name in Normandy). When this eminent person obtained that Earldom is not exactly ascertained, but Sir William Dugdale presumed the period to be toward the close of the Conqueror's reign, "for then," saith he, "King William, having begirt Warwick with a mighty ditch, for the precinct of its walls, and erected the gates at his own charge, did promote this Henry to the earldom, and annexed thereto the royalty of the borough, which at that time belonged to the crown." But, though Henry of Newburgh was made Earl of Warwick by the first Norman sovereign, he was not invested with all the lands attached to the Earldom until the ensuing reign, as we find William Rufus, soon after his accession to the throne, conferring upon him the whole inheritance of Turchil of Warwick, a Saxon, who, at the coming of Duke William, had the reputation of Earl; and thenceforth the "bear and ragged staff," the device of Turchil's family derived from the chivalrous Guy, Earl of Warwick, was assumed by the first of the Newburgh dynasty, and it has been continued ever since as a badge of the successive Earls of Warwick. The name of this Henry, Earl of Warwick, appears as a witness to the charter of King Henry I, whereby that prince confirmed the laws of Edward the Confessor, and granted many other immunities to the clergy and laity.
This Earl Henry commenced imparking Wedgenock, near his castle of Warwick, following the example of his sovereign, King Henry, who made the first park that had ever been in England, at Woodstock.
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