159916040. Earl Ranulph de Meschines & 159916041. Countess Lucia Taillebois
~1070,
Ranulf de Brisquesart de Meschines born in France, s/o 319832080.
Viscount Radulfe of Bayeux & 319832081. Matilda d’Avranches.
~1070, Lucy
born in Normandy, France.
[––Lucy––]
Lucy 1st
married to Roger de Romara [or possibly Ivo de Taillebois, then Roger.]
Lucy 2nd married to Ranulph de Brichsard, baron of St.
Sever, Normandy.
9/26/1087,
After the death of William the Conqueror, William Rufus crowned King of England; Duke Robert Curthose given
Normandy.
4/24/1089, ‘Rannulfus filius Rannulfi vicecomitis’ in a charter of
Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, to Bayeux cathedral. (S) FMG.
Ranulph’s father died.
[––Ranulph
& Lucy––]
~1095, Ranulph de Meschines married Lucy.
8/2/1100, Henry I crowned King of England.
1100-01,
Ranulf le Meschin attested a royal charter. (S) Henry I, Hollister, 2003, P60.
9/28/1106,
Randulf led the vanguard of King Henry I at the Battle of Tinchebrai; defeating
Duke Robert.
1106-07,
Radulph le Meschines sent with others to investigate complaints of Archbishop
Gerard about attacks on the monaster of Ripon.
5/17/1110,
‘Rann. Meschin’ a part to a Convention made at Doura between King Henry and
Robert, count of Flanders.
1113-16 at
Reading, Notification to Robert bishop of Lincoln, … attested … Robert the
king’s son, and Ranulf Meschin.
1114-4/1116,
Notification to Ranulf Meschin, Wigot sheriff of Lincolnshire, … king’s grant
in commendam to the bishop of Lincoln …
1116, Ranulf
le Meschin the justiciar of Lincolnshire.
12/1116,
Notification … that the king, … appointed to that office Robert bishop of
Lincoln … being present with the magnates of the realm, namely Robert count of
Meulan, Stephen count of Mortain, …, Ranulf Meschin, vicomte of Bayeux. (S)
King Stephen, King, 2011, P13.
1118, The
Count of Evreux died. Many barons revolted against King Henry. Richard, earl of
Chester, Ranulph de Meschines, Roger de Conches,
William de Warren, and Nigel and William de Albini remained loyal to the King.
(S) Constitutional History of England, Stubbs, 1880, P310. [Many other Normans
lost their lands and castles to the King.]
1119,
Randulf supported King Henry in military service.
1119, Ranulf
Meschin and his brother William Meschin attested the charter granted by
Richard, earl of Chester, to the abbey of St. Werburgh at Chester. (S)
Chartulary Series, V1, 1897, P470.
11/1120,
When his cousin Richard d’Avranches died in the White Ship sinking, Ranulf,
viscount of Bayeux, becomes earl of Chester; resigning Cumberland to the king.
[Ranulf was the nephew of Hugh d’Avranches, earl of Chester.]
1120-23,
Notification of the gift of Geoffrey Ridel’s daughter to Richard Basset to wife
… done at the prayer of Ranulf earl of Chester, William de Roumare …, Nigel de
Aubigny, and others his kinsmen, Geva his mother, Geoffrey chancellor of Earl
Ranulf, … William Meschin son of Ranulf, … William de Aubigny, … William the
constable of Ranulf earl of Chester, …
1121,
Randulf at the king’s Epiphany council.
1122,
Notification to Ranulf earl of Chester, Hugh de Leicester, and the barons of
Lincolnshire ….
4/1123,
Randulf, earl of Chester, sent with Robert, earl of Gloucester to secure
Normandy which was threatened by Fulk of Anjou. (S) Henry I, Green, 2006, P182.
1123-24,
Ranulf the Castellan of Evreux.
3/25/1124,
In an engagement near La Bourg-Teroude, between Belmont and Wattevill, Ranulf
earl of Chester and William the chamberlain of Tancarvill take prisoners
Waleran count of Meulan, Hugh fitz-Gervase, and Hugh de Monfort. (S) Struggle
for Mastery, Carpenter, 2003, P146.
1125,
Ranulph de Meschines, earl of Chester, gave the manor of Harshill and Ansley to
his kinsman Robert de Hardreshull.
9/1125,
Ranulf earl of Chester a signatory of a grant to Geoffrey de Clinton, the
king’s treasurer and chamberlain …
1126, Ranulf
earl of Chester a witness to a royal document, and in consultations with the
King. (S) Henry I, Green, 2006, P192.
1126-29,
Writ to Ranulf earl of Chester notifying him of the grant to Robert de Glanvill
of the land of Asgherbi …
1127-29, A
writ to John bishop of Lisieux, Robert earl of Gloucester, Ranulf, earl of
Chester, … in whose bailiwicks the canons of Bayeux have lands …
1/1129,
Ranulf died; buried at the abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester; his son Ranulf his
heir.
[––Lucia––]
1130, ‘Lucia
comitissa Cestr’ paid 500 marks to remain single for 5 years. (S) Conqueror’s
Son, Lack, 2007, P57.
Lucia died.
(S) DNB,
V16, 1909, P728. (S) English Hist. Rev., V34, 1919.
Family notes:
Lucia was the niece of Robert Malet of Eye [1071
holding 221 manors in suffolk, 32 in Yorshire, 8 in Lincolnshire, 3 in Essex, 2
in Nottinghamshire, 1 in Hampshire], and of Alan of Lincoln, and a kinswoman of
Thorold (d.12/1085), sheriff of Lincoln. (S) FMG.
Children
of Roger and Lucy:
i. William de Roumare, born ~? in England.
William
married Hadwisia, d/o 319399468. Richard de Redvers & 319399469. Adeline
Peverel.
12/18/1138,
Waleran, count of Meulan, was in Rouen meeting with William de Roumare, King
Stephen’s justiciar in Normandy.
Children
of Ranulph and Lucy:
i. Adelize de Gernon (159916225), born ~1097 in
England.
ii. Ranulph de Meschines (79958020),
born 1099 in France.
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