Ranulph Earl Of Chester De MESCHINES^[1]

Abt 1070 - 1129  (~ 59 years)

• Name	Ranulph Earl Of Chester De MESCHINES
  Birth	Abt 1070	Of Briquessart, Livry, France
  Gender	Male
  AFN	V9V7-8J
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1070
  	Alt. Birth
  	Of Briquessart, Livry, Cheshire, France
  Alt. Death	Jan 1128-1129  [2]
  	Alt. Death
  	Chester, Chester, Cheshire, England
  Name	Ranulph "De Briquessart" MESCHINES  [3, 4, 5]
  Name	Ranulph "De MESCHIN EARL OF CHESTER
  _UID	104DE017C9AD4507BA1423A7E3A16C44E2B6
  Death	Jan 1128-1129	, Chester, Cheshire, England
  Burial	St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England
  Person ID	I10653	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Ranulf Viscount Of Bayeux De MESCHINES,   b. Abt 1050, Of, Normandy, France d. 1129 (Age ~ 79 years)
  Mother	Maud D' AVRANCHES,   b. Abt 1054, Of, Avranches, Normandy, France d. Aft 1084, Sudeley, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 31 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1069	, Normandy, France
  Alt. Marriage	Abt 1069
  	Alt. Marriage
  	,,Normandy, France
  Family ID	F5345	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Alt. Marriage	Abt 1095
  	Alt. Marriage
  	England
  Marriage	1098	Of, Normandy, France
  Family ID	F5343	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  [001.ged] Name Suffix: Earl of Chester Ancestral File Number: V9V7-8J Copyri ghted but use freely for your self and families Not to be sent to for profit c ompany's Copyrighted but use freely for your self and families Not to be se nt to for profit company's Copyrighted but use freely for your self and fami lies Not to be sent to for profit company's Ranulf or Randle de Meschines, surnamed de Bricasard, Viscount Bayeux, in Normandy, (son of Ralph de Meschines , by Maud, his wife, co-heir of her brother, Hugh Lupus, the celebrated Earl of Chester), was given by King Henry I the Earldom of Chester, at the decease of his 1st cousin, Richard de Abrincis, 2nd Earl of Chester, of that family, witho ut issue. By some historians, this nobleman is styled Earl of Carlisle, from re siding in that city; and they further state that he came over in the train of t he Conqueror, assisted in the subjugation of England, and shared, of course, in the spoil of conquest. He was lord of Cumberland and Carlisle, by descent from his father, but having enfeoffed his two brothers, William, of Coupland, and G effrey, of Gillesland, in a large portion thereof, he exchanged the Earldom of Cumberland for that of Chester, on condition that those whom he had settled the re should hold their lands of the king, in capite. His lordship m. Lucia, widow of Roger de Romara, Earl of Lincoln, and dau. of Algar, the Saxon, Earl of Mer cia, and had issue, Ranulph, his successor; William, styled Earl of Cambridge, but of his issue nothing in known; Adeliza, m. to Richard Fitz-Gilbert, ancesto r of the old Earls of Clare; and Agnes, m. to Robert de Grentemaisnil. The earl d. in 1128 and was s. by his elder son, Ranulph de Meschines. [Sir Bernard Bur ke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages,. Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 365, Meschines, Earls of Chester] Source: lorenfamily.com

  
  

• Sources

  [S397] J.K. Loren Dec 8 2003, J. K. Loren. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 132a-26 (Reliability: 3). [S735] 27 May 2002. [S138] The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968, 125-27, 132a-26 (Reliability: 3). [S843] 8 Aug 2002.