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Name |
DE MESCHINES, Ranulph |
Prefix |
Earl |
Birth |
1172 |
Oswestry, Denbeighshire, Wales |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
28 Oct 1232 |
Wallingford, Berkshire, England |
Burial |
3 Nov 1232 |
Chester, Cheshire, England |
WAC |
31 Aug 1922 |
SLAKE |
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Person ID |
I48870 |
Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith |
Last Modified |
19 Aug 2021 |
Father |
GLOCESTER, Earl Kevelioc , b. 1 Jun 1147, Kevelioc, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales Kevelioc, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Walesd. 30 Jun 1181, Leek, Staffordshire, England (Age 34 years) |
Mother |
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 |
Family ID |
F16064 |
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Notes |
- Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester and 1st Earl of Lincoln (1170–1232), known in some references as the 4th Earl of Chester (in the second lineage of the title after the original family line was broken after the 2nd Earl), was one of the "old school" of Anglo-Norman barons whose loyalty to the Angevin dynasty was consistent but contingent on the receipt of lucrative favours. He was described as "almost the last relic of the great feudal aristocracy of the Conquest".
Ranulf, born in 1170,[1] was the eldest son of Hugh de Kevelioc and Bertrade de Montfort of Evreux. He was said to have been small in physical stature.
He succeeded to the earldom of Chester (like his father before him) as a minor (aged eleven) and was knighted in 1188 or 1189, which gave him control of his estates in England and Normandy. Although he used, not inconsistently, the style Duke of Brittany, he never had the control of the duchy, and is not known to have played an important role there.
After Geoffrey's death, Henry II arranged for Constance, Geoffrey's widow, to marry Ranulph, the Earl of Chester. Ranulph would become Duke of Brittany, jure uxoris, for a short time before this marriage was annulled.
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