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English countess and religious patron
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Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Arundel was an English peer. She was widowed when she was about 17 years old, with a large estate, upon which she founded a Cistercian order convent, England's only convent to be Cistercian at the time of its founding. In 1252, she rebuked King Henry III for not paying her money she was owed.
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