MESCHINES, Lady Matilda de

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• Name	MESCHINES, Matilda de
  Prefix	Lady
  Birth	26 Aug 1171	Chester, Cheshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Jan 1233	Sawtry Abbey, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England
  Death	6 Jan 1233	Abbey Saltre, Huntingtonshire, England
  WAC	24 Apr 1931	SLAKE
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  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	HUNTINGDON, Earl David ,   b. 17 Jun 1152, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotlandd. 17 Jun 1219, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	26 Aug 1190	Scotland
  Children	+ 1. HUNTINGDON, Isabelle ,   b. 1183, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, Englandd. 20 Mar 1251, Abbey of Saltre, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 68 years)
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  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  BIOGRAPHY: “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “HUGH, 6th Earl of Chester, hereditary Vicomte of Avranches in Normandy, seigneur of Saint Sever and Briquessart, son and heir, born about 1141 (of age in 1162). He is sometimes called Hugh of Cyfeiliog, because, according to a late writer, he was born in that district of Wales. According to the chronicler, John of Hexham, it was agreed at Carlisle in 1150 that a son of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, should marry one of the daughters of Henry, son of the king of Scotland. The son of Earl Ranulph was presumably his eldest son, Hugh. The projected marriage never took place. In the period, 1154-7, Earl Hugh and his mother, Countess Maud, gave Styvechale (south of Coventry) to Walter, Bishop of Chester, and his successors for the absolution of Hugh's father, Lord Earl Ranulph, and the redemption of his soul and that of his ancestors. Sometime in the period, 1155- 63, the king ordered Earl Hugh and his mother, Countess Maud, to give to the Abbot and monks of Gloucester the rents which Hugh's father, Earl Ranulph, gave them in the mills of Oldney and Tadwell. He was present in 1163 at Dover for King Henry II's renewal of the Flemish money fief, and also attended the Council of Clarendon in January 1164. Sometime in the period, 1166-87, he confirmed the former grant made to Saint-Etienne Abbey, Caen by Ranulph, Vicomte of Bayeux, his ancestor, of all the land the said Ranulph possessed at Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse. He married in 1169 BERTRADE DE MONTFORT, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux, seigneur of Montfort-l'Amaury, by his wife, Maud. She was born about 1156 (aged 29 in 1185). They had one son, Ranulph, Knt. [Earl of Chester and Lincoln], and five daughters, Maud, Mabel, Agnes, Hawise, and (wife of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales). By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he also had two illegitimate sons, William (or Pain) (of Milton), and Roger, and one illegitimate daughter, Amice. Hugh joined the rebellion of King Henry II's sons in 1173. He was captured by King Henry II at Dol in August 1173. In 1174 he was deprived of his lands for rebellion. He was subsequently regranted his honours and lands at the Council of Northampton in 1177. In March 1178 he witnessed King Henry II's award in the dispute between Alfonso IX, King of Castile, and Sancho V, King of Navarre. During his lifetime, he granted some lands in the Wirral to the Abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester, and made other special gifts to Stanlow Priory, St Mary's, Coventry, and the nuns of Buffington and Greenfield priories. He also confirmed his mother's grants to her foundation of Augustinian canons at Calke, Derbyshire, and those of his father to his convent of the Benedictine nuns of St Mary's, Chester. In 1171 he confirmed the grants of his father to the Abbey of St. Stephen in the diocese of Bayeux. He likewise granted the church of Belchford, Lincolnshire to Trentham Priory, and the church of Combe, Gloucestershire to the Abbey of Bordesley, Warwickshire. HUGH, Earl of Chester, died at Leek, Staffordshire 30 June 1181, and was buried next to his father in the chapter house of St Werburgh's, Chester. Sometime in the period, 1188-99, his widow, Bertrade, witnessed a charter of her son, Ranulph, Earl of Chester. In the period, 1190-1200, she reached agreement with the abbot and convent of Troarn in Normandy regarding the construction of a mill and fishpond on the boundary between her wood and theirs. Sometime before 1194-1203, she exchanged lands with the canons of Repton. Sometime in the period, 1200-10, she granted to Ralph Carbonel, of Halton, Lincolnshire, for his homage and service a half a knight's fee which he held of the said countess in Halton. In 1223 Richard Duket and Simon de Sees brought a plea of novel disseisin against her touching a tenement in Harmston, Lincolnshire. In 1226 she presented to the church of Waddington, Lincolnshire. In 1227 she arraigned an assize of last presentation to the church of Waddington, Lincolnshire against the abbot of St. Sever. Bertrade, Countess of Chester, died in 1227, after 31 March. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 217-218. Hanshall Hist. of the County Palatine of Chester (1823): 21, 28 (ped.). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Arles Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 276 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Coll Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1846): 217-218 (sub Spalding Monastery - Hugonis, primi Comitis Cestriæ et Lincolniæ.... prosapia: "... post quem successit Ranulfus de Gernons filius ejus, qui moriens decimo sexto kalendas Januarii [17 December], jacet juxta patrem suum. Post hunc successit Hugo filius ejus, qui moriens secundo kalendas Julii [30 June], jacet juxta patrem suum."); 4 (1823): 314 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Bigsby Hist. & Topog. Desc. of Repton (1854): 58 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, naming his father, Ranulf, Earl of Chester, and his grandfather, Robert, Earl of Gloucester), 59-61 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Stevenson Church Historians of England 4(1) (1856): 27 (Chronicle of John of Hexham). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 244 (Burton Annals sub A.D. 1227: "Obiit Bertrudis comitissa Cestriae."). Leycester & Mainwaring Tracts written in the Controversy respecting the Legitimacy of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester 1-3 (Chetham Soc. 78-80) (1869). Reliquary 11 (1870-71): 196 (Harleian MS. 1486 [Derbyshire Visitation] alleges Hugh, Earl of Chester, had [illegitimate] son, William de Mylton). Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester I (1882): 26-33. Cat. of a Selection from the Stowe MSS (1883): 10 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Christie Annales Cestrienses, or, Chronicle of the abbey of S. Werburg at Chester (Lancashire & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 14) (1887): 20-21 (sub A.D. 1147: "Natus comes Hugo II."), 24-25 (sub A.D. 1169: "In hoc anno factus Hugo comes Cestrie miles, eodem veto anno duxit Hugo comes Cestre uxorem filiam Simonis comitis Ebroensis nomine Bertrad quam Rex Henricus II. Angliæ ei tradidit quia ipsius cognata fuit."), 28-29 (sub A.D. 1181: "Obiit Hugo II. ij kal. Julii comes Cestre apud Lech."), 54-55 (sub A.D. 1227: "Item obiit Bertrudis comitissa Cestre."). Birch Cat. of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 381 (seal of Bertrade, Countess of Chester dated at end of 12th Cent. - Pointed oval. Full face, tightly-fitting dress with long maunches at the wrists, standing. Legend: * SIGILL' BERTREE COMITISSE CESTRIE.). C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 156. C.P.R. 1399-1401 (1903): 296-297. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #51 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester to his mother, Countess Maud, dated c.1162-7; charter names his father, Earl Ranulph), #52 (charter of Maud, Countess of Chester, dated c.1162-7, granted with consent of her son, Earl Hugh; charter names her parents, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Countess Mabel, and her husband, Earl Ranulph). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 531-532. Jeayes Descriptive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters (1906): 69, 242-245. Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normandie (1909): 387 (biog. of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Round Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [11857 (Pipe Roll Soc. 35) (1913): 15 (Date 1185: "Bertreia comitissa filia comitis de Everews, uxor Hugonis comitis Cestrie, est de donatione Domini Regis, et est .xxix. annorum."). Davis Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-12353 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 9) (1914): 154. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Tait Chartulary or Reg. of the Abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester (Chetham Soc. 82) (1923). Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 103,200. Collls. Hist. Staffs. 1924 (1926): 30-31 (charter of Earl Hugh and his mother, Countess Maud). Rpt. on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 83. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 238 (writ of King Henry II to Hugh, Earl of Chester, and Bertrade his wife dated 1177-81). Barraclough Earldom & County Palatinate of Chester (1953). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 18, 32. Barraclough Charters of the Anglo-Norman earls of Chester, c1071-1237 (Lancashire & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 126) (1988): 140-196. Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 65-66. T. F. Tout, 'Hugh, fifth earl of Chester (1147-1181)', rev. Thomas K. Keefe, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). Children of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade de Montfort: i. RANULPH, Knt., Earl of Chester, Vicomte of Avranches in Normandy, Judge in the King's Court, 1193, Constable of Sermilly Castle, 1201-4, Constable of the Tower of Avranches, 1203, Governor of the Peak Castle and Forest, 1215, Sheriff of Lancashire, 1216-22, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1216,1217-23, Steward of the Town and Honour of Lancaster, 1216-23, Constable of Fotheringay Castle, 1221-2, Steward of the Honour of Leicester, 1222, and, in right of his 1st wife, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, son and heir, born at Oswestry in Powys c.1172... ii. MAUD OF CHESTER, married DAVID OF SCOTLAND, Earl of Huntingdon [see BALLIOL 4]. iii. MABEL OF CHESTER, married WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel [see CLIFTON 5]. iv. AGNES OF CHESTER, married WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 4th Earl of Derby [see FERRERS 6]. v. HAWISE OF CHESTER, Countess of Lincoln, married ROBERT DE QUINCY [see QUINCY 6.i]. Child of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by an unknown mistress, vi. AMICE OF CHESTER, married RALPH DE MAINWARING, Seneschal of Chester [see AUDLEY 6].”