MESCHINES, Ranulph de Gernon IV

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• Name	MESCHINES, Ranulph de Gernon
  Suffix	IV
  Birth	1116	Gernon Castle, Normandy, France
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Dec 1153	St. Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England
  Death	16 Dec 1153	Cheshire, England
  WAC	25 May 1934	ARIZO
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  Person ID	I71211	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	CAEN, Earl Robert Gloucester de ,   b. 1093, Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, Franced. 31 Oct 1147, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (Age 54 years)
  Mother	FITZ-HAMON, Countess Mabel ,   b. 1094, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Englandd. 1157, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	1115	Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 1109 MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Gloucester, England. MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Abt 1112 MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 1109 ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 10 Sep 1936
  Family ID	F32474	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	FITZ-ROBERT, Countess Maud ,   b. 1120, Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Englandd. 29 Jul 1189, Chester, Cheshire, England (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1141
  Family ID	F32556	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  From Medieval Lands: RANULF "de Gernon", son of RANULF Vicomte du Bessin "le Meschin" & his wife Lucy --- (Château de Gernon, Normandy before 1100-[murdered] 16 Dec 1153, bur Chester, Abbey of St Werburgh). His parentage is recorded by Orderic Vitalis[97]. He succeeded his father in [1129] as Earl of Chester, Vicomte d'Avranches. The Annales Cestrienses record in 1128 the death of “Ranulphus Miscinus comes Cestrie” and the succession of “Rannulphus comes filius eius”[98]. Stephen King of England appointed him Constable of Lincoln. Earl Ranulf fought against King Stephen at Lincoln in 1141 and was seized by the king at court in Northampton 29 Aug 1146. The Annales Cestrienses record in 1141 “III Non Feb” that King Stephen was captured “a duobus comittibus...Ranulpho comite Cestriæ et a Roberto comite Gloucestrie...in bello apud Lincolniam” and in 1146 that “Ranulphus comes de Cestrie” was captured by King Stephen “apud Northamantiam IV Kal Sep”[99]. King Stephen nevertheless granted him the castle and city of Lincoln, probably after 1151. Robert of Torigny records the death in 1153 of "Ranulfus comes Cestriæ"[100]. The Annales Cambriæ record the death in 1154 of "Radulphus comes Urbis Legionum"[101]. The Annales Cestrienses record the death in 1153 of “Ranulphus II comes Cestrie”[102]. A manuscript narrating the descent of Hugh Earl of Chester to Alice Ctss of Lincoln records the death “XVI Kal Jan” of “Ranulfus de Gernons” and his burial at St Werburgh’s, Chester[103]. It was alleged that he was poisoned by his wife and by William Peverell of Nottingham[104]. Ralph de Diceto records that "Willelmus Peverel de Notingeham" was disinherited in 1155 for poisoning "Ranulfo comiti Cestriæ"[105]. m ([1141]) MATILDA of Gloucester, daughter of ROBERT FitzRoy Earl of Gloucester & his wife Mabel [Matilda or Sibylle] FitzRobert (-29 Jul 1190). Robert of Torigny refers to the wife of "Ranulfus comes Cestriæ" as "filia Roberti comitis Gloecestriæ"[106]. The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records property “Wadinton de feodo comitis Cestrie” held by “Matillis comitissa Cestrie…filia Roberti comitis Gloecestrie, filii regis Henrici primi”[107]. It was alleged that she and William Peverell of Nottingham poisoned her husband[108]. "Hugo comes Cestrie" confirmed a donation of land in Thoresby donated by "Willelmus filius Othuer" to Greenfield priory, Lincolnshire, for the soul of "patris mei Randulfi", by charter dated to [1155] witnessed by "Matilla matre sua…"[109]. The Annals of Tewkesbury record the death “IV Kal Aug” in 1190 of “Matildis comitissa Cestria”[110]. Earl Ranulf & his wife had two children: (Hugh"of Kevelioc" and Richard). [Source: The Medieval Lands Project, "RANULF "de Gernon"", retrieved 4 October 2018, dvmansur; see link ion Sources.]