Matilda, daughter of Richard Goz

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Richard Goz, viscount of Avranches.

This relationship is given by King (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (3:166).

Mother: unknown.

Lewis (ODNB) notes that she was “formerly identified on the basis of unsatisfactory evidence as Emma, supposedly a half-sister of William the Conqueror.”

Spouse: Ranulf de Briquessart, viscount of the Bessin.

This relationship is given by King (ODNB).

Children:

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

Richard.

Ranulf le Meschin (died January 1129), third earl of Chester, married Lucy of Bolingbroke.

William le Meschin married Cecily de Rumilly.

Geoffroy of Gillesland.

Agnes married Robert de Grandmesnil.

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).

King, Edmund. “Ranulf (I), third earl of Chester (d. 1129)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Lewis, C.P. “Avranches, Hugh d’, first earl of Chester (d. 1101)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).