3rd Earl of Chester Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester

1147 - 1181  (34 years)

• Name	Hugh de Kevelioc
  Title	3rd Earl of Chester
  Suffix	5th Earl of Chester
  Birth	1147	Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Jun 1181	Leek, Staffordshire, England   [2, 3]
  Burial	St. Werburgs, Chester, Cheshire, England
  Person ID	I8798	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	2nd Earl of Chester Ranulph de Gernon,   b. 1099, Guernon Castle, Normandy, France d. 16 Dec 1153, Chester, Cheshire, England (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Maud FitzRobert de Caen,   b. 1117, Gloucestershire, England d. 29 Jul 1189, Chester, England (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1141	Gloucestershire, England   [4]
  Family ID	F3387	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bertrade de Montfort,   b. 1155, Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d. 12 Jul 1189, Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	1169	Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Mabel de Meschines,   b. Abt 1172, Chester, Cheshire, England d. Bef 1232, Chester, Cheshire, England (Age < 59 years)  [natural]   2. Hawise de Kevelioc,   b. 1180, Chester, Cheshire, England d. 6 Jun 1243, Chester, Cheshire, England (Age 63 years)  [natural]   3. Maude "of Chester" de Kevelioc,   b. 1171, Chester, Chestershire, England d. 6 Jan 1233 (Age 62 years)  [natural]   4. 4th Earl of Chester Ranulph de Blundeville,   b. Abt 1172, Oswestry, Shropshire, England d. 1232 (Age 60 years)  [natural]   5. Agnes de Meschines,   b. Abt 1174, Chester, Cheshire, England d. 2 Nov 1247 (Age 73 years)  [natural]   6. Beatrix de Meschines,   b. Abt 1170, Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales  [natural]   7. Helga de Meschines,   b. Abt 1173, Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales  [natural]   8. Amicia de Meschines,   b. Abt 1177, Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales d. Chester, Cheshire, England  [natural]
  Family ID	F3450	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 30 Jun 1181 - Leek, Staffordshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  This nobleman, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester, joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Lancaster and the King of Scots against King Henry II, and in support of that monarch's son, Prince Henry's pretensions to the crown. In which proceeding he was taken prisoner with the Earl of Leicester at Alnwick, but obtained his freedom soon afterwards upon the king's reconciliation with the young prince. Again, however, hoisting the standard of revolt both in England and Normandy, with as little success, he was again seized and then detained a prisoner for some years. He eventually, however, obtained his liberty and restoration of his lands when public tranquility became completely reestablished some time about the 23rd year of the king's reign. His lordship m. Bertred, dau. of Simon, Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and had issue, I. Ranulph, his successor; I. Maud, m. to David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of William, King of Scotland, and had one son and four daus., viz., 1. John, surnamed le Scot, who s. to the Earldom of Chester, d. s. p. 7 June, 1237; 1. Margaret, m. to Alan de Galloway, and had a dau., Devorguilla, m. to John de Baliol, and was mother of John de Baliol, declared King of Scotland in the reign of Edward I; 2. Isabel, m. to Robert de Brus, and was mother of Robert de Brus, who contended for the crown of Scotland, temp. Edward I; 3. Maud, d. unm.; Ada, m. to Henry de Hastings, one of the competitors for the Scottish crown, temp. Edward I; II. Mabill, m. to William de Albini, Earl of Arundel; III. Agnes, m. to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; IV. Hawise, m. to Robert, son of Sayer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester. 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 the 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." The earl d. at Leeke, in Staffordshire, in 1181, and was s. by his only son, Ranulph, surnamed Blundevil (or rather Blandevil) from the place of his birth, the town of Album Monasterium, modern Oswestry, in Powys), as 4th Earl of Chester. * 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

  [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 125-28. [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. 1181 [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 125-27.