Hawise, Countess of Aumale

Hawise (c. 1160 – 1214) was ruling Countess of Aumale, the daughter and heiress of William le Gros. In 1180 she married William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, who held Aumale until his death in 1189.

Richard I then gave the wealthy widow to the crusader William de Forz, a match she opposed. They had an heir, William de Forz, later Earl of Albemarle, and after her husband died in 1195 she supported their son. Her third husband was Baldwin de Béthune.

After Philip Augustus seized Aumale in 1196 and Baldwin's death, she agreed to pay King John five thousand marks to keep her inheritance and avoid a forced marriage. She died in March 1214.