Ranulf le Meschin, earl of Chester
3rd earl of Chester
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: January 1129.
The date is given by King (ODNB).
Place of Burial: the chapter house of Chester Abbey.
The place is given by King (ODNB).
Relationships
Father: Ranulf de Briquessart, viscount of the Bessin
This relationship is given by King (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 228), and by the Complete Peerage (3:166).
Mother: Matilda, daughter of Richard, vicomte of the Avranchin.
This relationship is given by King (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (3:166). Keats-Rohan (p. 228) calls her "Margaret, sister of Hugh d'Avranches".
Spouse: Lucy of Bolingbroke (died about 1138).
This relationship is given by King (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 228), and by Johns (p. 120). Lucy was the widow of Ivo Taillebois and Roger fitz Gerold.
Children:
(Complete source citations for the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)
Ranulf de Gernon (about 1100 - 17 December 1153), earl of Chester, married Matilda, daughter of Robert, earl of Gloucester.
Agnes married Robert de Grantmesnil.
Alice married Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare.
References
Cawley, Charles. “Ranulf du Bessin” 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).
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).
King, Edmund “Ranulf (I), third earl of Chester (d. 1129)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).