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).