Ranulphe de Briquessart

Abt 1065 - 1129  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Ranulphe de Briquessart  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Born	Abt 1065	Briquessart, Livry, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Called "de Briquessart" from the commune of Livry
  Occupation	Vicomte de Bayeux, Normandie, France
  Occupation	26 Nov 1119
  	Granted the title Earl of Chester following the death, without issue, of his cousin Richard, the son of his uncle, Hugh d'Avranches
  Occupation	1124
  	Commander of the Royal Forces in Normandie, France
  Occupation	1121-1129
  	4th Earl of Chester
  Occupation	1121-1129
  	Vicomte d'Avranches, Normandie, France
  Died	1129	Chester, Cheshire, England
  Buried	St. Werburgh's Abbey, Chester (Cathedral), Cheshire, England
  Person ID	I8782	Godbout
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Ranulphe II de Bayeux,   b. Abt 1042, Normandie, France ,   d. 1128, Chester, Cheshire, England  (Age ~ 86 years)
  Mother	Margaret d'Avranches,   b. Abt 1046, Avranches, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France ,   d. Abt 1136  (Age ~ 90 years)
  Married	Abt 1065
  Family ID	F4476	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy of Chester,   b. Abt 1055, England ,   d. Aft 1130  (Age ~ 76 years)
  Married	Abt 1098	Normandie, France
  Children	1. Adeliza de Meschines,   b. Abt 1098, Chester, Cheshire, England ,   d. Aft 1142  (Age ~ 45 years)   2. Ranulphe de Gernon,   b. 1099, Château de Gernon, Basse-Normandie, France ,   d. 16 Dec 1153, Chester, Cheshire, England  (Age 54 years)
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F4477	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S576] Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, Anselme de Sainte-Marie, augustin déchaussé, (Troisième Édition, la Compagnie des Libraires, Paris, 2 août 1726-1733), Volume 2, p. 483. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), V. III, p. 166; Vol. IV, p. 669 (chart IV); V. VI, p. 498 & V. VII, pp. 744-745. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 346-347 & 451. [S721] The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, William Flower, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, edited by Charles Best Norcliffe, M.A., of Langton, (The Harleian Society, Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, 140 Wardour Street, W., London, 1881), 18 & 336. [S747] The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, (Printed for William Strahan; and Thomas Cadell, in the Strand, London, 1777), Volume 1, p. 266. The said Ranulph de Meschiens married Lucia sister of Hugh Lupus aforesaid (Hugues d'Avranches), by whom he had issue a son and a daughter. The son, Ranulph de Meschiens, so called after his father's name, succeeded to the Cumberland and Westmorland estates (exept what his father had before granted away to his brother William de Meschiens and others); and afterwards, upon the death of Richard brother of the said Hugh Lupus, the said Ranulph the son was, in his mother's right, being next heir in blood, and by the favor of the king, made earl of Chester. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 116-132A & 125-27.