Viscount of the Bessin
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Ranulf (died 1047), viscount of the Bessin.
This relationship is given by Cawley.
Mother: Alix of Normandy, illegitimate daughter of Richard III, duke of Normandy.
This relationship is given by Cawley.
Spouse: Matilda, daughter of Richard, vicomte of Avranches.
This relationship is given by King (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (3:166).
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
Cawley, Charles. “Ranulf” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
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).