Geva of Chester

- Aft 1120

• Name	Geva of Chester  [1]
  Birth	of Chester, Cheshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1120  [2]
  Alternate death	Aft 1144  [3]
  Person ID	I2426	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Hugh "Lupus" d'Avranches,   b. Abt 1047   d. 27 Jul 1101, Abbey of St. Werburg, Chester, Cheshire, England (Age ~ 54 years)
  Mother	Ermentrude de Clermont
  Family ID	F1555	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Geoffrey I Ridel   d. 25 Nov 1120, At sea, off Barfleur, Normandy, France
  Children	+ 1. Maud Ridel,   b. of Drayton, Staffordshire, England
  Family ID	F553	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 May 2025

  
  

• Notes

  "It has been surmised that she was illegitimate, but there is no evidence on this point, the fact that she did not succeed her brother in the earldom in 1120 being no proof of illegitimacy." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] "Geva cannot have been a legitimate daughter, as otherwise she would have been heiress when her paternal half-brother drowned in the White Ship without issue. The palatine earldom of Chester then passed to the family of the viscounts of Bayeux through Geva's paternal aunt, Hugh's sister." [Peter Stewart, SGM, 21 Sep 2017]

  
  

• Sources

  [S3215] Medieval Welsh Ancestors of Certain Americans by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2004. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.