Ranulf le Meschin

- Abt 1129

• Name	Ranulf le Meschin  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1129  [5, 6]
  Alternate death	Jan 1129  [2]
  Alternate death	17 Jan 1129  [7]
  Alternate death	27 Jan 1129  [7]
  Burial	Abbey of St. Werburg, Chester, Cheshire, England   [2, 5, 8]
  Person ID	I2780	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Ranulph de Briquessart,   b. Abt 1045   d. Aft 1089 (Age ~ 45 years)
  Mother	Margaret d'Avranches
  Family ID	F4049	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy of Bolingbroke,   b. of Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d. Abt 1138
  Marriage	Abt 1098  [2, 5, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Alice of Chester   d. Aft 1148 + 2. Ranulph de Gernons,   b. Bef 1100, Guernon Castle, Normandy, France d. 16 Dec 1153 (Age > 53 years)
  Family ID	F2555	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Randle; Ranulf de Briquessart; de Bricasard; Ranulf du Bessin; Ranulf of Chester. Earl of Chester. Vicomte of Bayeux. Commander of the royal forces in Normandy, 1124. "Ranulph le Meschin, styled also, 'de Briquessart,' Vicomte de Bayeux in Normandy, s. and h. of Ranulph, Vicomte de Bayeux, by Margaret, sister of Hugh (d'Avranches), Earl of Chester abovenamed, being thus 1st cousin and h. to the last Earl (whom he suc. as Vicomte d'Avranches, &c., in Normandy), obtained, after the Earl's death in 1120, the grant of the county palatine of Chester, becoming thereby Earl of Chester. He appears thereupon to have surrendered the Lordship of the great district of Cumberland, which he had acquired, shortly before, from Henry I. In 1124 he was Commander of the Royal forces in Normandy. He m. Lucy, widow of Roger Fitz-Gerold (by whom she was mother of William de Roumare, afterwards Earl of Lincoln). He d. 17 or 27 Jan. 1129, and was bur. at St. Werburg's, Chester. The Countess Lucy confirmed, as his widow, the grant of the Manor of Spalding to the monks of that place." [Complete Peerage III:166, incorporating corrections from volume XIV.]

  
  

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