|William de Warenne| |Death:||8 January 1148 Turkey| |Death at
event:||Battle of Mount Cadmus| |Father:||William de Warenne,
2nd Earl of Surrey (1080-1138)| |Mother:||Elizabeth de
Vermandois (c1081-1131)| |Spouse:||Adele de Ponthieu
(c1119-1174)| He was generally loyal to king Stephen. He fought
at the Battle of Lincoln (1141), and was one of the leaders of
the army that pursued the empress Matilda in her flight from
Winchester, and which captured Robert of Gloucester. Crusader
Knight (1146-48) Edit He was one of the nobles that, along with
Louis VII of France, took crusading vows at Vezelay in 1146, and
he accompanied the initial army of the Second Crusade the next
year. He was killed by a Turkish attack while the army was
marching across Anatolia (modern day Turkey) on their way to the
Holy Land. In Dec 1147 the French-Norman force reaches the
Biblical town of Ephesus on the west coast of Turkey. They are
joined by remnants of the German army which had previously taken
heavy losses at Dorylaeum. Marching ac