Matilda (died 1189)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 29 July 1189.

This date is given by Johns (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 247).

Relationships

Father: Robert (died 1147), earl of Gloucester.

This relationship is given by Johns (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 232, p. 247), and by the Complete Peerage (3:167).

Mother: Mabel, the daughter of Robert fitz Haimon.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB), by Johns (1995, p. 124), and by the Complete Peerage (3:167). Johns (ODNB) gives Matilda’s mother as Sibyl, the daughter of Roger de Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury.

Spouse: Ranulf (II) (died 1153), fourth earl of Chester.

This relationship is given by Johns (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 232, p. 247), 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.)

Hugh (1147 - 30 June 1181), earl of Chester, married Bertrada, daughter of Simon, count of Évreux.

Richard.

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. “Robert, first earl of Gloucester (b. before 1100, d. 1147)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006).

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.

Johns, Susan M. “Matilda, countess of Chester (d. 1189)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007).

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

White, Graeme. “Ranulf (II), fourth earl of Chester (d. 1153)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007).