Hugh of Cyfeiliog, earl of Chester

5th earl of Chester

Events

Date of Birth: 1147.

This date is given by Tout (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (3:167).

Place of Birth: Kevelioc, Merionethshire.

Date of Death: 30 June 1181.

Place of Death: Leek, Staffordshire.

The date and place are given by Tout (ODNB).

Place of Burial: the south side of the chapter house of St Wedburgh’s, Chester (now the cathedral).

The place is given by Tout (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Ranulf (II), fourth earl of Chester.

This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB), by Crouch (p. 278), by Johns (p. 120), by Keats-Rohan (p. 228), and by the Complete Peerage (3:167).

Mother: Matilda, daughter of Robert, earl of Gloucester.

This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB), by Johns (p. 120), and by the Complete Peerage (3:167).

Spouse: Bertrade, daughter of Simon, count of Évreux, in 1169.

This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB), by Johns (p. 120), by Keats-Rohan (p. 228), and by the Complete Peerage (3:167).

Children:

(Complete source citations for the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Ranulf “de Blundeville” (about 1170 - 28 October 1232), earl of Chester, married (1) Constance, daughter of Conan IV, duke of Brittany; married (2) Clemence, daughter of Guillaume de Fougères.

Matilda (about 1171 - January 1233) married David of Scotland, earl of Huntingdon.

Mabel (died about 1232) married William d’Aubigny, earl of Arundel and Sussex.

Agnes (died 2 November 1247) married William de Ferrers, earl of Derby, in 1192.

Hawise married Robert de Quincy.

Amicia married Ralph Mainwaring.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Crouch, David. The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (Pearson, 2000).

Johns, Susan. "The Wives and Widows of the Earls of Chester, 1100-1252: the Charter Evidence" in The Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History Volume 7 (1995) pp. 117 - 132.

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Tout, T.F. “Hugh, fifth earl of Chester (1147-1181)”, rev. Thomas K. Keefe in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).