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Lucy of Chester

Female Abt 1055 - Aft 1130  (~ 76 years)


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  • Name Lucy of Chester  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Born Abt 1055  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Occupation 1130 
    Countess of Chester 
    Property (Possibly the daughter of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, by Ælfgifu of the Seven Boroughs according to Burke) 
    Died Aft 1130 
    Person ID I8783  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Richard Gherbod d'Avranches,   b. Abt 1025, Avranches, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1082, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Mother Emma de Conteville,   b. Abt 1029, Conteville, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 1040 
    Family ID F4475  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Yves de Taillebois,   b. Abt 1040, Calvados, Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1094  (Age ~ 54 years) 
    Married Abt 1080 
    Children 
     1. Béatrice de Taillebois,   b. Abt 1080,   d. Bef 1121  (Age ~ 40 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F9179  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Gerald Roger de Roumare,   b. Abt 1050, Roumare, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 15 Jul 1098  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Married Abt 1086 
    Children 
     1. Guillaume de Roumare,   b. Abt 1088, Roumare, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F12306  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Ranulphe de Briquessart,   b. Abt 1065, Briquessart, Livry, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1129, Chester, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Married Abt 1098  Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Adeliza de Meschines,   b. Abt 1098, Chester, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1142  (Age ~ 45 years)
     2. Ranulphe de Gernon,   b. 1099, Château de Gernon, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Dec 1153, Chester, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F4477  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

    2. [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), Volume IV, p. 669 (chart IV); Vol VI, p. 499 & Vol. VII, pp. 743-746.

    3. [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), 347 & 451.
      His lordship (Roger de Roumare) m. Lucia, widow of Roger de Romera, Earl of Lincoln, and daughter of Algar, Earl of Mercia. Gerald (Roger) de Romare, feudal Lord of Bollingbroke, in Lincolnshire, m. Lucia, daughter of Algar, Earl of Chester, and widow of Ivo Tallboys; by whom (who espoused after his decease, Ranulph, Earl of Chester,) he had a son and successor, William de Romare, Lord of Bollingbroke.

    4. [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.

    5. [S638] Domesday People. A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166, Vol. I, Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan, (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1999), 283.

    6. [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.