Amicia de Meschines

Abt 1177 -

• Name	Amicia de Meschines
  Birth	Abt 1177	Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales
  Gender	Female
  Death	Chester, Cheshire, England
  Person ID	I37006	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	3rd Earl of Chester Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester,   b. 1147, Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 30 Jun 1181, Leek, Staffordshire, England (Age 34 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Bertrade de Montfort,   b. 1155, Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d. 12 Jul 1189, Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France (Age 34 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1169	Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F3450	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - - Chester, Cheshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely, Amicia, * m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, "a person," says Dugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, of Over Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be a dau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in his Antiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot but mislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave to Mainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl of Chester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then must he be descended from a co-heir to the Earl of Chester; but he was not; for the co-heirs of Earl Hugh married four of the greatest peers in the kingdom." * Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper war between Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventually the matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, "a tan assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by the justices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the matter to Mainwaring." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 365-6, Meschines, Earls of Chester]

  
  

• Sources

  [S228] The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968, 95. [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 125-28.