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le Meschin, Ranulph

le Meschin, Ranulph

Male Abt 1078 - Abt 1129  (~ 51 years)

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  • Name le Meschin, Ranulph  [1, 2
    Birth Abt 1078 
    Gender Male 
    Death Abt 1129  [2
    Burial St. Werburg's, Chester, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3075  Shane and Beck
    Last Modified 14 Jun 2023 

    Father Briquessart, Ranulph dr,   b. Bef 1046   d. Aft 1089 (Age > 45 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother le Goz, Margaret   d. Aft 1084 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F1426  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Taillebois, Lucy 
    Marriage Abt 1098  [2
    Children 
    +1. Le Meschin, Adeliz (Alice),   b. Between 1088 and 1094, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]
     2. Ranulph De Gernon,   b. Abt 1100, château de Guernon-Ranville is located in Le Bas de Ranville in, Ranville, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Dec 1153, St. Werburg's, Chester, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 53 years)  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F1238  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Jun 2023 

  • Notes 
    • Lord of Cumberland, vicomte of Bayeux in Normandy, Earl of Chester in 1120, following the death of his first cousin, Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester. In 1124 commander of the Royal Forces in Normandy.
      Married, probably about 1098, Lucy (living 1130) widow successively of Ives Taillebois and Roger Fitz Gerold.

  • Sources 
    1. [S224] United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Briquessart, Ranulph.
      Ranulf (I) [Ranulf le Meschin], third earl of Chester (d. 1129), magnate, was son of Ranulf (Ralph) de Briquessart, vicomte of the Bessin (the area around Bayeux), and Matilda, daughter of Richard, vicomte of the Avranchin (the area around Avranches).
      https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23127

    2. [S210] Weis, Frederick L, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who came to America before 1700, (Name: Genealogical Publishing Co; Location: Baltimore MD; Date: 2004;), Line 132A-26.