Ranulph de Gernons

Bef 1100 - 1153  (> 53 years)

• Name	Ranulph de Gernons  [1]
  Birth	Bef 1100	Guernon Castle, Normandy, France   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1100  [4]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1105	Guernon Castle, Normandy, France   [5, 6]
  Death	16 Dec 1153  [2, 4, 7, 8]
  Alternate death	17 Dec 1153	Gresley, Derbyshire, England   [5, 9, 10]
  Burial	Abbey of St. Werburg, Chester, Cheshire, England   [2]
  Person ID	I3985	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Ranulf le Meschin   d. Abt 1129
  Mother	Lucy of Bolingbroke,   b. of Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d. Abt 1138
  Marriage	Abt 1098  [2, 4, 9]
  Family ID	F2555	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Matilda of Gloucester   d. 29 Jul 1189
  Marriage	Bef 1135  [11, 12, 13]
  Children	+ 1. Hugh of Chester,   b. Abt 1141   d. 30 Jun 1181, Leek, Staffordshire, England (Age ~ 40 years)
  Family ID	F185	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Ranulf of Chester. Earl of Chester. Vicomte d'Avranches. Of his death, Complete Peerage says "being supposed to have been poisoned by his wife and William Peverell, of Nottingham", but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, while noting the claims that he died of poison, says nothing about his wife being involved. "Most contemporary verdicts upon Ranulf were unfavourable. Although Orderic Vitalis acknowledged his resourcefulness and daring, the Gesta Stephani criticized ‘the cunning devices of his accustomed bad faith’ (Gesta Stephani, 192–3), and Henry of Huntingdon, through a speech supposedly by the royalist spokesman at the battle of Lincoln, called him ‘a man of reckless daring, ready for conspiracy...panting for the impossible’, prone to defeat or, at best, to Pyrrhic victories (Historia Anglorum, 734–5). Clearly, his strategy during the civil war was to take every opportunity to enhance his territorial position, especially in the north midlands, and such commitments as he made, either to the king or to the Angevins, were calculated to that end. Other magnates followed similar policies, but Ranulf (II) was exceptionally ruthless in pursuit of his ambitions, and accordingly he was hated by many and trusted by none." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

• Sources

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