William le Meschin

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 1129 and 1135.

This range is given by King (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Ranulf de Briquessart, viscount of the Bessin.

This relationship is given by King (ODNB).

Mother: Matilda, daughter of Richard Goz, viscount of the Avranchin.

This relationship is given by King (ODNB).

Spouse: Cecily de Rumilly.

This relationship is given by King (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 1039).

Children:

Matthew.

Ranulf le Meschin.

Amice married (1) William de Courcy; married (2) William Paynell; married (3) Walter de Percy.

Alice married (1) William FitzDuncan, son of Duncan II, king of Scotland; married (2) Alexander FitzGerold.

Matilda married (1) Philip de Belmeis of Tong, Shropshire; married (2) Hugh (I) de Mortimer.

References

Cawley, Charles. “William FitzRanulf” 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).

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).