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GLOCESTER, Earl Kevelioc
1147 - 1181 (34 years) 
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Name GLOCESTER, Kevelioc Prefix Earl Birth 1 Jun 1147 Kevelioc, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales 
Gender Male Death 30 Jun 1181 Leek, Staffordshire, England Burial Jul 1181 Chester, Cheshire, England WAC 21 Feb 1918 SLAKE _TAG Reviewed on FS Headstones 
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Father MESCHIN, Viscount Ranulph de Gernon Earl of Chester , b. 1105, Gernon, Normandy, France Gernon, Normandy, Franced. 16 Dec 1153, Chester, Cheshire, England (Age 48 years) Mother FITZ-ROBERT, Countess Maud , b. 1120, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Englandd. 29 Jul 1189, Chester, Cheshire, England (Age 69 years) Marriage 1141 Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England Notes - MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Gloucester, England.
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Family EVREUX, Countess Bertrade de Montfort , b. 2 Jun 1155, Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, Franced. 31 Mar 1227, Évreux, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 71 years) Marriage 1172 Montfort, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France 
Children1 son and 5 daughters Family ID F16064 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester (1147 – 1181), also written Hugh de Kevilioc, was an Anglo-Norman magnate who was active in England, Wales, Ireland and France during the reign of King Henry II of England.[1]
Origins
Born in 1147, he was the son of Ranulf II, 4th Earl of Chester, and his wife Maud, daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, who was an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England. A later tradition claims he was born in the Cyfeiliog district of Wales.[1]
Career
On his father's death in 1153, he became heir to extensive estates. In France, these included the hereditary viscountcies of Avranches, Bessin, and Val de Vire, as well as the honours of St Sever and Briquessart. In England and Wales, there was the earldom of Chester with its associated honours. Together, they made him one of the most important Anglo-Norman landholders when he was declared of age in 1162 and took possession. He quickly took his place among King Henry II's magnates, being present at Dover in 1163 for the renewal of the Anglo-Flemish alliance and in 1164 at the Council of Clarendon.[1]
In 1173, however, he joined the revolt of the king's sons and led the rebels in Brittany. After sending an army of Brabantines, who forced the rebels to retreat into the castle of Dol, in August 1174 Henry arrived in person to lead the siege. Hugh and his companions, with no food left, surrendered after being promised no executions or mutilations. Held prisoner in various castles, he made his peace with Henry and was one of the witnesses of the Treaty of Falaise in October 1174 that ended hostilities.[1]
At the Council of Northampton in January 1177 his lands were restored, but not his castles, and in March he was a witness to Henry's arbitration between the kings of Castile and Navarre. Then in May, at the Council of Windsor, Henry restored his castles and ordered him to Ireland. There is no record of him gaining any military successes or grants of land there.[1]
He died on 30 June 1181 at Leek in Staffordshire and was buried beside his father on the south side of the chapter house of St Werburgh's Abbey in Chester, now Chester Cathedral. His successor was his only legitimate son (Ranulf III).[1]
Chapter house of Chester Cathedral
Benefactions
During his life he made grants to St Werburgh's Abbey at Chester, to Stanlow Abbey, to St Mary's Priory at Coventry, to Bullington Priory, to Greenfield Priory, to Trentham Priory, and to Bordesley Abbey. He also confirmed grants of his parents to Calke Abbey, to St Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester, and to the Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen, in Normandy.[1]
Family
In 1169 he married Bertrade, daughter of Simon III de Montfort, Count of Évreux, who in turn was the son of Amaury III of Montfort.[1] Their children were:
Ranulf III, who became 6th Earl of Chester but died childless in 1232, when his four legitimate sisters became his heirs.[1]
Maud, who married David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon.[1]
Mabel, who married William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel.[1]
Agnes, who married William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby.[1]
Hawise, who married Robert II de Quincy.[1]
Known illegitimate children were: Pagan; Roger; Amice, who married Ranulf Mainwaring, justice of Chester;[2] and an unknown daughter who married Richard Bacon, founder of Rocester Abbey.[1] Other illegitimate daughters have been claimed: one called Beatrix was alleged to have married a William Belward,[3][4] while another unnamed daughter was said to have married Llywelyn Fawr.[5]
[Source: Wikipedia, "Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester" (link in Sources; downloaded 30 July 2018, dvmansur).]
Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester
Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester (1147 – 30 June 1181) was the son of Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester and Maud of Gloucester, daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (otherwise known as Robert de Caen, the illegitimate son of Henry I of England, making her Henry's granddaughter).
Hugh
Born 1147 Kevelioc, Monmouth
Died 30 June 1181
Title Earl of Chester
Term 1153–1181
Predecessor Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester
Successor Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester
Spouse(s) Bertrade de Montfort of Evreux
Children Ranulf
Maud of Chester
Beatrix of Chester
Mabel of Chester
Agnes of Chester
Hawise of Chester
Parent(s) Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester
Maud of Gloucester
Contents
Early life
He is thought to have been born in Kevelioc in Monmouth. But he may have taken the name of the cwmwd of Cyfeiliog (in modern Powys) in the southern part of the Kingdom of Powys, Wales.
He was underage when his father's death in 1153 made him heir to his family's estates on both sides of the Channel. He joined the baronial Revolt of 1173–1174 against King Henry II of England, and was influential in convincing the Bretons to revolt. After being captured and imprisoned after the Battle of Alnwick, he finally got his estates restored in 1177, and served in King Henry's Irish campaigns.
Marriage
In 1169 he married Bertrade de Montfort of Evreux, daughter of Simon III de Montfort, who in turn was the son of Amaury III of Montfort. She was the cousin of King Henry, who gave her away in marriage. Their children were:[1][2]
Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester
Matilda de Blondeville, aka Matilda (Maud) of Chester (1171–1233), married David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon
Mabel of Chester, married William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel
Agnes of Chester (died 2 November 1247), married William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby; ancestors of Joseph Priestley
Hawise of Chester (1180–1242), married Robert II de Quincy
Beatrix of Chester, married Lord William de Belward of Malpas, ancestor of the Cholmondeley family. (Beatrix may have been illegitimate).[3]
Hugh also had another daughter, Amice of Chester, who married Ralph de Mainwaring and was the ancestress of that family. There is no record of Amice's mother or whether she was Hugh's wife or mistress. The question of Amice's legitimacy has been subject to a longstanding dispute.[4]
One letter from the Pope suggests that Llywelyn Fawr may have been married to an unnamed sister of Earl Ranulph of Chester in about 1192, but there appears to be no confirmation of this.[5] If this was the case it could have been either Mabel or Hawise, or perhaps Amice, and the marriage would have had to have been annulled before any subsequent marriages.
Death and succession
Hugh of Kevelioc died 30 June 1181 at Leek, Staffordshire, England. He was succeeded by his son, Ranulf.
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Ranulf de Gernon Earl of Chester
1153 – 1181 Succeeded by
Ranulf de Blondeville
References
^ The Annales Londonienses record that Ranulphus comes Cestriæ had four sisters primogenita...Matilda...secunda...Mabillia...tertia...Agnes...quarta...Hawisia.
Charles Cawley, England, earls created 1067-1122
^ Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Vol. 1, pp.47, 526; Vol. 2, pp.15, 44, 328/9, 331-333, 347, 350; Vol. 3, pp.162, 169, 188/9, 201, 205 states that William Belward lived in the time of King Stephen, 1135-1154, and married Beatrix, daughter of Hugh de Bohun, alias Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester.
^ According to Burke's Peerage, William de Belward married an illegitimate daughter of the earl. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 784. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
^ Tracts written in the controversy respecting the legitimacy of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester, A.D. 1673-1679 (Volume 78) - Leycester, Peter, Sir, 1614-1678
^ Lloyd, John. E. A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest. Longmans, Green & Co. (1911) pp. 616-7
Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Werburg at Chester (Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society)
Chester, 5th Earl, Hugh de Kevelioc, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester (1147 – 1181), also written Hugh de Kevilioc, was an Anglo-Norman magnate who was active in England, Wales, Ireland and France during the reign of King Henry II of England.[1]
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