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Bef 1002 - 1059 (~ 57 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Earl of Mercia III Ælfgar was born before 1002 in Mercia, England; was buried in 1059 in Coventry, Warwick, England. III married Ælgifu in 1062. Ælgifu (daughter of King of England Æthelred II "The Unready" and Ælgifu Gunnarson) was born on 16 Apr 990 in Wessex, England; died in 1098 in Alkborough, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. of Mercia Lucia
was born about 1040 in Mercia, England; and died; was buried in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England.
- 3. of Mercia Ealdgyth
was born about 1034 in Mercia, England; died after 1086 in France.
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Family/Spouse: Alversa Malet. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 4. William Malet
was born in 1014 in Graville, Normandy, France; died about 1071.
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Generation: 2
2. | of Mercia Lucia (1.III1) was born about 1040 in Mercia, England; and died; was buried in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. Family/Spouse: Earl of Anjou, 1st Baron of Kendal, Earl of Holland in Lincolnshire Ivo (Ives) de Taillebois. Ivo (son of Bertrade de Montfort) was born about 1036 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died in 1094 in Kendal, Westmorland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 5. Lucy de Taillebois
was born on 23 May 1074 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; died on 28 Jun 1144 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in Chester, Cheshire, England.
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Family/Spouse: Lord Spalding Roger de Romara. Roger (son of Gerald de Romara and Aubreye) was born about 1037; died before 1110. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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3. | of Mercia Ealdgyth (1.III1) was born about 1034 in Mercia, England; died after 1086 in France. Ealdgyth married King of Gwynedd and Powys Gruffydd ap Llewelyn about 1058. Gruffydd (son of Llywelyn ap Seisyllt and Angharad verch Maredydd) was born about 1011 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales; died on 5 Aug 1063. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Ealdgyth married King of England Harold II Godwineson about 1052 in York, England. Harold (son of Godwin and Gytha Thorgilsdottir) was born in 1022; died on 14 Oct 1066 in Battle of Hastings, Sussex, England; was buried in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 8. Princess of England Gytha
was born in 1053 in Wessex, England; died on 2 May 1107.
- 9. Ulf
was born in Dec 1066 in Chester, England; died after 1087.
- 10. Harold
was born in Dec 1066 in Chester, England; died after 1098 in France.
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4. | William Malet (1.III1) was born in 1014 in Graville, Normandy, France; died about 1071. William married Esilia Crispin about 1041 in Normandy, France. Esilia (daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Count of Brionne and Gunnora d'Anjou) was born on 1 Nov 1020 in Tillières, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France; died in 1087 in Eye, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 11. Beatrice Malet
was born about 1044 in of Alkborough, Lincolnshire, England.
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Generation: 3
5. | Lucy de Taillebois (2.Lucia2, 1.III1) was born on 23 May 1074 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; died on 28 Jun 1144 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in Chester, Cheshire, England. Other Events and Attributes:
- Name: Lucy of Bolingbroke
- Name: Lucy Thoroldsdottir
Lucy married Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester in 1098 in Normandy, France. Ranulf (son of Ranulf "Le Meschin" de Briquessart, Viscount of Bessin and Margaret d'Avranches) was born on 26 Jun 1070 in Livry, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 29 Jan 1128 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 12. Alice de Meschines
was born about 1094 in Gernons Castle, Normandy, France; died in 1154.
- 13. 2nd Earl of Chester Ranulph de Gernon
was born in 1099 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France; died on 16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England.
- 14. Earl of Cambridge William de Meschines
was born in 1096 in Gernons Castle, Normandy, France; died about 1132 in of Egremont, Cumberland, England.
- 15. de Meschines
was born about 1102 in of Chester, Cheshire, England.
- 16. Hugh de Kevelioc
was born in 1090 in Chester, Cheshire, England; died in 1120 in England.
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Lucy married Roger FitzGerold about 1095 in of England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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9. | Ulf (3.Ealdgyth2, 1.III1) was born in Dec 1066 in Chester, England; died after 1087. Notes:
He was perhaps born in December, 1066 in Chester, although some authorities have stated that he was an illegitimate son of Harold by his mistress Edith Swanneshals. Ulf is said by some chroniclers to have drowned at sea before 1070, but he is recorded as being alive in 1087 in Normandy.
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10. | Harold (3.Ealdgyth2, 1.III1) was born in Dec 1066 in Chester, England; died after 1098 in France. Notes:
He grew up in exile.
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Generation: 4
12. | Alice de Meschines (5.Lucy3, 2.Lucia2, 1.III1) was born about 1094 in Gernons Castle, Normandy, France; died in 1154. Alice married Lord of Tonbridge Lord of Cardigan Richard FitzGilbert de Clare about 1115. Richard (son of Earl Hertford Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare and Adeliza (Alice) de Clermont) was born in 1090 in Clare, Suffolk, England; died on 15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried in Tonbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 19. Earl of Hertford Roger de Clare
was born in 1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England; died in 1173 in Oxfordshire, England; was buried in Eynsham Priory, Oxfordshire, England.
- 20. Earl of Hertford Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare
was born in 1115; died in 1153.
- 21. Adeliza (Alice) de Clare
was born in 1121 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; died after 1148 in Tonbridge, Kent, England.
- 22. Rohese de Clare
was born about 1124 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England; died after 1175.
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Alice married Lord of Appleby Robert de Condet after 1136. Robert (son of Lord Wickhambreux Osbert de Condet and Adelaide de Chesney) was born about 1108 in Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died about 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 23. Lord Coventry Roger de Condet
was born about 1138 in Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died in of Coventry and Glentham, Lincolnshire, England.
- 24. Isabel de Condet
was born about 1140 in Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
- 25. Isobel Aquillion
was born in 1142 in of Thurrock, Essex, England.
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13. | 2nd Earl of Chester Ranulph de Gernon (5.Lucy3, 2.Lucia2, 1.III1) was born in 1099 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France; died on 16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England. Notes:
Ranulph de Meschines (surnamed de Gernons, from being born in Gernon Castle, in Normandy), Earl of Chester. This nobleman, who was a leading military character, took an active part with the Empress Maud, and the young Prince Henry, against King Stephen, in the early part of the contest, and having defeated the king and made him prisoner at the battle of Lincoln, committed him to the castle of Bristol. He subsequently, however, sided with the king, and finally, distrusted by all, died under excommunication in 1155, supposed to have been poisoned by William Peverell, Lord of Nottingham, who being suspected of the crime, is said to have turned monk to avoid its punishment. The earl m. Maud, dau. of Robert, surnamed the Consul, Earl of Gloucester, natural son of King Henry I, and had issue, Hugh, his successor, named Keveliok, from the place of his birth, in Merionethshire; Richard; Beatrix, m. to Ralph de Malpas. His lordship was s. by his elder son, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 365, Meschines, Earls of Chester]
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Ranulf II de Gernons, 4th Earl of Chester, VICOMTE (Viscount) DEBAYEUX, VICOMTE D'AVRANCHES, Ranulf also spelled RANDULF, or RALPH (b. c. 1100--d. Dec. 16, 1153), a key participant in the English civil war (from 1139) between King Stephen and the Holy Roman empress Matilda (also a claimant to the throne of England). Ranulf, nicknamed 'aux Gernons' (i.e. moustaches), played a prominent and vacillating part in the civil war of Stephen's reign, his actions, in common with most of his peers, springing from personal grievances rather than dynastic loyalty or principle. Ranulf's father, Ranulf I, had been granted the earldom of Chester in 1121 after his maternal uncle had drowned in the White Ship disaster (1120) but, in return, had been compelled to surrender Cumberland and his patrimony of Carlisle. The restoration of these lost estates was the mainspring of much of Ranulf II's political life. Inheriting the Chester earldom in 1129, he initially supported Stephen as king after 1135. However, successive treaties between Stephen and King David of Scotland in 1136 and 1139 gave the Scots large tracts of land in Cumberland coveted by Ranulf who reacted by seizing the town and besieging the castle. Ranulf now allied with the Empress Matilda in defeating the king at Lincoln in February 1141, capturing and briefly imprisoning Stephen. Ranulf's association with the Angevin party was cemented by his marriage in 1141 to the daughter of Robert of Gloucester. Later (1149) he transferred his allegiance to the king in return for a grant of the city and castle of Lincoln. Coventry received its original charter from him. However, his territorial ambitions were no closer realization as the king of Scots was also a close ally of Matilda. In 1145, Ranulf was reconciled to Stephen. However, there was no love lost between Ranulf and the king's entourage, many of whom had suffered at his hands. In August, 1146, at Northampton, Ranulf was suddenly arrested and put in chains when he refused the king's demand to restore all lands he had taken. He was only released when he surrendered all former royal property, including Lincoln. Stephen's arrest of Ranulf was a public relations disaster. He had broken his oath of reconciliation of 1145 and his own promise of protection, thus deterring any more defections from the Angevin faction. Stephen had breached a central tenet of effective medieval rule, that of being a good -- i.e. fair -- lord. Ranulf joined Henry FitzEmpress and was reconciled with David of Scotland who, in return for the lavish grant to Ranulf of most of Lancashire, retained Carlisle. But Ranulf was never a party man. His priorities remained centered on his own territorial and dynastic advantage, as shown by his 'conventio' with a leading royalist baron Robert of Leicester (1149/53). Under this treaty, the two magnates , independently of their rival liege-lords Stephen and Henry FitzEmpress, agreed to limit any hostilities forced between them by their masters and to protect their respective tenurial positions. Ranulf's career, notorious for his arrest in 1146, is more significant as evidence that the drama of high politics was played against a dense background of baronial competition for rights, lands, and inheritances which took precedence over any claims of royalty. [Encyclopedia Britannica CD'97, RANULF DE GERNONS, 4TH EARL OF CHESTER]
Ranulph married Maud FitzRobert de Caen about 1141 in Gloucestershire, England. Maud (daughter of 1st Earl of Gloucester Robert de Caen and Maud FitzHamon) was born in 1117 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 29 Jul 1189 in Chester, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 26. 3rd Earl of Chester Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester
was born in 1147 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1181 in Leek, Staffordshire, England; was buried in St. Werburgs, Chester, Cheshire, England.
- 27. Johanna de Gernon
was born about 1140 in Chester, Cheshire, England.
- 28. Alice de Meschines
was born about 1142 in Chester, Cheshire, England.
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