Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: about 1232.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 228).
Relationships
Father: Hugh (1147 -1181), fifth earl of Chester.
This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 228), and by the Complete Peerage (1:236).
Mother: Bertrada, daughter of Simon, count of Évreux.
This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (1:236).
Spouse: William d’Aubigny (about 1174 - 1221), earl of Arundel.
This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB), by Alexander (p. 2), by Keats-Rohan (p. 228), and by the Complete Peerage (1:236).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
William (about 1200 - August 1224), earl of Arundel.
Matilda married Robert de Tattershall.
Isabel married John FitzAlan.
Hugh (about 1215 - 7 May 1243), earl of Arundel, married Isabel de Warenne in 1234.
Nicole married Roger (IV) de Somery.
Cecily married Roger de Mohaut.
References
Alexander, James W. Ranulf of Chester: A Relic of the Conquest (The University of Georgia Press, 1983).
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).
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).
Turner, Ralph V. “Aubigny, William d’, third earl of Arundel (c. 1174 - 1221)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).