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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HUGH, 6th Earl of Chester, hereditary Vicomte of Avranches in Normandy, seigneur of Saint Sever and Briquessart, son and heir, born about 1141 (of age in 1162). He is sometimes called Hugh of Cyfeiliog, because, according to a late writer, he was born in that district of Wales. According to the chronicler, John of Hexham, it was agreed at Carlisle in 1150 that a son of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, should marry one of the daughters of Henry, son of the king of Scotland. The son of Earl Ranulph was presumably his eldest son, Hugh. The projected marriage never took place. In the period, 1154-7, Earl Hugh and his mother, Countess Maud, gave Styvechale (south of Coventry) to Walter, Bishop of Chester, and his successors for the absolution of Hugh's father, Lord Earl Ranulph, and the redemption of his soul and that of his ancestors. Sometime in the period, 1155- 63, the king ordered Earl Hugh and his mother, Countess Maud, to give to the Abbot and monks of Gloucester the rents which Hugh's father, Earl Ranulph, gave them in the mills of Oldney and Tadwell. He was present in 1163 at Dover for King Henry II's renewal of the Flemish money fief, and also attended the Council of Clarendon in January 1164. Sometime in the period, 1166-87, he confirmed the former grant made to Saint-Etienne Abbey, Caen by Ranulph, Vicomte of Bayeux, his ancestor, of all the land the said Ranulph possessed at Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse. He married in 1169 BERTRADE DE MONTFORT, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux, seigneur of Montfort-l'Amaury, by his wife, Maud. She was born about 1156 (aged 29 in 1185). They had one son, Ranulph, Knt. [Earl of Chester and Lincoln], and five daughters, Maud, Mabel, Agnes, Hawise, and (wife of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales). By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he also had two illegitimate sons, William (or Pain) (of Milton), and Roger, and one illegitimate daughter, Amice. Hugh joined the rebellion of King Henry II's sons in 1173. He was captured by King Henry II at Dol in August 1173. In 1174 he was deprived of his lands for rebellion. He was subsequently regranted his honours and lands at the Council of Northampton in 1177. In March 1178 he witnessed King Henry II's award in the dispute between Alfonso IX, King of Castile, and Sancho V, King of Navarre. During his lifetime, he granted some lands in the Wirral to the Abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester, and made other special gifts to Stanlow Priory, St Mary's, Coventry, and the nuns of Buffington and Greenfield priories. He also confirmed his mother's grants to her foundation of Augustinian canons at Calke, Derbyshire, and those of his father to his convent of the Benedictine nuns of St Mary's, Chester. In 1171 he confirmed the grants of his father to the Abbey of St. Stephen in the diocese of Bayeux. He likewise granted the church of Belchford, Lincolnshire to Trentham Priory, and the church of Combe, Gloucestershire to the Abbey of Bordesley, Warwickshire. HUGH, Earl of Chester, died at Leek, Staffordshire 30 June 1181, and was buried next to his father in the chapter house of St Werburgh's, Chester. Sometime in the period, 1188-99, his widow, Bertrade, witnessed a charter of her son, Ranulph, Earl of Chester. In the period, 1190-1200, she reached agreement with the abbot and convent of Troarn in Normandy regarding the construction of a mill and fishpond on the boundary between her wood and theirs. Sometime before 1194-1203, she exchanged lands with the canons of Repton. Sometime in the period, 1200-10, she granted to Ralph Carbonel, of Halton, Lincolnshire, for his homage and service a half a knight's fee which he held of the said countess in Halton. In 1223 Richard Duket and Simon de Sees brought a plea of novel disseisin against her touching a tenement in Harmston, Lincolnshire. In 1226 she presented to the church of Waddington, Lincolnshire. In 1227 she arraigned an assize of last presentation to the church of Waddington, Lincolnshire against the abbot of St. Sever. Bertrade, Countess of Chester, died in 1227, after 31 March.
Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 217-218. Hanshall Hist. of the County Palatine of Chester (1823): 21, 28 (ped.). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Arles Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 276 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Coll Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1846): 217-218 (sub Spalding Monastery - Hugonis, primi Comitis Cestriæ et Lincolniæ.... prosapia: "... post quem successit Ranulfus de Gernons filius ejus, qui moriens decimo sexto kalendas Januarii [17 December], jacet juxta patrem suum. Post hunc successit Hugo filius ejus, qui moriens secundo kalendas Julii [30 June], jacet juxta patrem suum."); 4 (1823): 314 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Bigsby Hist. & Topog. Desc. of Repton (1854): 58 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, naming his father, Ranulf, Earl of Chester, and his grandfather, Robert, Earl of Gloucester), 59-61 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Stevenson Church Historians of England 4(1) (1856): 27 (Chronicle of John of Hexham). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 244 (Burton Annals sub A.D. 1227: "Obiit Bertrudis comitissa Cestriae."). Leycester & Mainwaring Tracts written in the Controversy respecting the Legitimacy of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester 1-3 (Chetham Soc. 78-80) (1869). Reliquary 11 (1870-71): 196 (Harleian MS. 1486 [Derbyshire Visitation] alleges Hugh, Earl of Chester, had [illegitimate] son, William de Mylton). Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester I (1882): 26-33. Cat. of a Selection from the Stowe MSS (1883): 10 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Christie Annales Cestrienses, or, Chronicle of the abbey of S. Werburg at Chester (Lancashire & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 14) (1887): 20-21 (sub A.D. 1147: "Natus comes Hugo II."), 24-25 (sub A.D. 1169: "In hoc anno factus Hugo comes Cestrie miles, eodem veto anno duxit Hugo comes Cestre uxorem filiam Simonis comitis Ebroensis nomine Bertrad quam Rex Henricus II. Angliæ ei tradidit quia ipsius cognata fuit."), 28-29 (sub A.D. 1181: "Obiit Hugo II. ij kal. Julii comes Cestre apud Lech."), 54-55 (sub A.D. 1227: "Item obiit Bertrudis comitissa Cestre."). Birch Cat. of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 381 (seal of Bertrade, Countess of Chester dated at end of 12th Cent. - Pointed oval. Full face, tightly-fitting dress with long maunches at the wrists, standing. Legend: * SIGILL' BERTREE COMITISSE CESTRIE.). C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 156. C.P.R. 1399-1401 (1903): 296-297. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #51 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester to his mother, Countess Maud, dated c.1162-7; charter names his father, Earl Ranulph), #52 (charter of Maud, Countess of Chester, dated c.1162-7, granted with consent of her son, Earl Hugh; charter names her parents, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Countess Mabel, and her husband, Earl Ranulph). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 531-532. Jeayes Descriptive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters (1906): 69, 242-245. Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normandie (1909): 387 (biog. of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Round Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [11857 (Pipe Roll Soc. 35) (1913): 15 (Date 1185: "Bertreia comitissa filia comitis de Everews, uxor Hugonis comitis Cestrie, est de donatione Domini Regis, et est .xxix. annorum."). Davis Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-12353 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 9) (1914): 154. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Tait Chartulary or Reg. of the Abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester (Chetham Soc. 82) (1923). Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 103,200. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 1924 (1926): 30-31 (charter of Earl Hugh and his mother, Countess Maud). Rpt. on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 83. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 238 (writ of King Henry II to Hugh, Earl of Chester, and Bertrade his wife dated 1177-81). Barraclough Earldom & County Palatinate of Chester (1953). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 18, 32. Barraclough Charters of the Anglo-Norman earls of Chester, c1071-1237 (Lancashire & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 126) (1988): 140-196. Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 65-66. T. F. Tout, 'Hugh, fifth earl of Chester (1147-1181)', rev. Thomas K. Keefe, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
Children of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade de Montfort:
i. RANULPH, Knt., Earl of Chester, Vicomte of Avranches in Normandy, Judge in the King's Court, 1193, Constable of Sermilly Castle, 1201-4, Constable of the Tower of Avranches, 1203, Governor of the Peak Castle and Forest, 1215, Sheriff of Lancashire, 1216-22, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1216,1217-23, Steward of the Town and Honour of Lancaster, 1216-23, Constable of Fotheringay Castle, 1221-2, Steward of the Honour of Leicester, 1222, and, in right of his 1st wife, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, son and heir, born at Oswestry in Powys c.1172. He was knighted by the king at Caen 1 Jan. 1187/8. He married (1st) 3 Feb. 1187/8 (or 1189) CONSTANCE OF BRITTANY [see BRITTANY 6], widow of Geoffrey of England, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (killed in a tournament at Paris 19 August 1186) [see ENGLAND 4.v], and daughter and heiress of Conan IV le Petit, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, by Margaret, daughter of Henry of Scotland, Earl of Northumberland [see BRITTANY 5 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1162. They had no issue. In 1194 he was commander of the forces for King Richard I. He took part in the second Coronation of King Richard I, which was solemnised in Winchester Cathedral 17 April 1194. In 1196 Ranulph captured his wife, Constance, en route to her finalizing negotiations with King Richard I and confined her at Benvron for at least a year. Soon after her release, she sought the annulment of their marriage, which was granted in 1199, presumably on grounds on consanguinity; she subsequently married (3rd) before October 1199 (as his 1st wife) GUY DE THOUARS, in right of his 1st wife, Count (or Duke) of Brittany, Earl of Richmond [see BRITTANY 6]. Constance died testate at Nantes 4 (or 5) Sept. 1201. Ranulph married (2nd) before 7 October 1200 CLEMENCE DE FOUGERES, widow of Main de Vitre (or Dinan) (died 1198), seigneur of Dinan, and daughter of Guillaume de Fougères, seigneur of Fougères, by Agatha, daughter of Guillaume du Hommet, Constable of Normandy [see FOUGERES 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included land in the valley of Mortain. They had no issue. He was engaged in warfare with the Welsh from 1209 to 1214. He was faithful to King John against the rebellious Barons. He was one of the executors of King John who died 19 October 1216; and one of most zealous supporters of the young king, Henry III. In 1217, as Joint Commander of the royal army, he contributed to the defeat of the rebels under the Count of Perche. He was created Earl of Lincoln 23 May 1217. He went on crusade to the Holy Land in May 1218, and distinguished himself at the Siege of Damietta. He returned to England in August 1220. In 1223 he was required to surrender his castles. In 1229 he opposed in Parliament the grant of a tenth to the Pope, and forbade its collection in his own domain. In 1229 Earl Ranulph granted tithes in Wilsford, Wiltshire, formerly held of the Earl of Lincoln, to Roger, Succentor of Salisbury. He served as Chief Commander of the royal troops in Brittany, 1230-1, and in June 1231 was a Joint Commissioner to treat with France. Sometime between April 1231 and his death, he resigned the earldom of Lincoln to his sister, Hawise de Quincy. RANULPH, Earl of Chester, died at Wallingford 28 October 1232, and was buried at St. Werburg's, Chester, his heart being interred at Dieulacres Abbey. His widow, Clemence, died in 1252. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 67-68. Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 187 (charter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester). Galia Christiana 2 (1720): 1333 (abstract of charter of Guy de Thouars dated 1208 naming his mother, Aumuz, and his wife, [Constance] Countess of Brittany). Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1725): 445-461 (sub Bretagne). Morice Méms. pour Servir de Preuves a l'Hist. de Bretagne 1 (1742): 37-38, 912-913, 917. Morice Histoire Ecclesiastique et Civil de Bretagne 1(1750): xvii-xviii (Counts of Penthievre ped). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 218-220. Hanshall Hist. of the County Palatine of Chester (1823): 21-23, 28 (ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 325 (charter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester dated 1230), 574- 575 (Jerveaux Abbey - Genealogy of the Counts of Richmond). Coll Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 ("Henricus, regis Dauid filius, comes Huntyntoune et Northumbrie vxorem duxit Adam filiam Willelmi senioris, sororis Willelmi junioris comitis de Warenna, et sororem comitis Roberti Legecesterensis, et Walranni comitis de Melent, cuius mater fuit soror Rodulphi comitis de Perona, regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea, ex qua suscepit tres inclitos filios Genuit eciam idem princeps Henricus totidem Elias ex uxore sua predicta Ada, scilicet, Adam, que lege conjugii tradita est comiti Holandie Fiorentino: secundam, Margaretam Conano duci Britannie comiti de Richmonth nuptam, ex qua genuit filiam nomine Constanciam Gaufrido, comiti Andigauie, fratri regis Anglie Richardi Primi, disponsatam, de qua Gaufridus genuit filium nomine Arthurum, postea in mare mersum, vnam eciam filiam, Aleciam nomine, que a Petro Mauclerk concepit et peperit filium, nomina Johannem, postea ducem Britannie, et aliam filiam nomine Alienoram, que cum Arthuro fratre in mare periit."). Top. & Gen. 1(1846): 301-320. Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 18-19. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 7 (1852): 123-132 (letter of Clemence, Countess of Chester, names her aunt [amite], Aline, Prioress of Mortain, and Raoul de Fougères her grandfather [avus]). Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaries de l'Ouest 29 (1865): 365-369 (re. Thouars fam.). Stubbs Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benidicti Abbatis 1 (Rolls Ser. 49) (1867): 207. Marchegay & Mabille Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou (1869): 45 (Chronicæ Sancti Albini Andegavensis: death of Geoffrey). Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 35 (1874): 8-9 (charter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester). Dernay Inv. des Sceaux de la Normandie (1881): 5-6 (undated seal of Constance, Duchess of Brittany, Countess of Richmond - Dame debout, coffée en tresses, revêtue d'un sur ___ ajuste du corsage, des hanches et des bras, et reconvert d'une chape, un faucon sur le poing, en fieuron dans la main droite. [Légende] * CONSTANCIA DVCISS … [COMIITISSA RICH[EMUN]DIE). Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1 (1882): 33-41. Robertson Materials for the Hist. of Thomas Becket 6 (Rolls Ser. 67) (1882): 170-174. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 365-366 (sub Chester); 3 (1886): 107-109 (sub Richmond). Annales Cestrienses (Lanc. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 14) (1887): 40-41 (Chron. of St Werburg sub 1188: "Rannulphus comes cestrie … Cui etiam dedit Henricus rex anglie in uxorem relictam v Kl. [recte Galfridi filii sui] Cui comitissam britannie filia Alani [recte Conani] Comitis britannie nominee Constancia et toto comittatu de Richemund quam ipse comes Cestrie Rannulphus desponsavit in die Sancte Werburge virginis, id est, tertia nonas Februarii [3 Feb.] apud ..."), 46 (Chron. of St. Werburg sub 1200: "Rannulphus comes Cestrie desponsavit uxorem filiam Radulphi de Feugis, nomine Clementiam, relicta comitissa Britannie, nomine Constancia."). La Borderie Recueil d'Actes inédits des Ducs et Princes de Bretagne (Xe, XIIe, XTIIe Siecles) (1888). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 378 (seal of Constance, Duchess of Brittany, Countess of Richmond dated 1190-1198 - Pointed oval. To the right Standing, with tightly-fitting dress, long fur-lined cloak fastened at the throat, in the right hand a lily-flower, on the left hand a hawk with long jesses.). Inventaire Sommaire des Archives Départementales anterieures à 1790, Loire-Inferieure 2(2) Ser. C &D (1898): 147. List of Shenffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 72, 117. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 531-532. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 355. Dunbar Scottish Kings (1906): 58-70. Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Due de Normandie Introduction (1909): 103-106, 371-372 (biog. of Geoffrey Fitz Roy, Count of Brittany). VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 441-458. Fairer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Le Moyen Age 35 (1924-5): 63-70. Farnham Leicestershire Mecieval Peels. (1925): 11 (ped. of Earls of Chester). Brunel et al. Recueil des Actes de Philippe Auguste Roi de France 2 (1943): 542. C.P. 3 (1913): 167-169 (sub Chester); 10 (1945): 780 (chart), 794-805 (sub Richmond). Annales de Bretagne 53 (1946), 1-27. VCH Wiltshire 6 (1962): 213-221. Painter Scourge of the Clergy: Peter of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (1969). BIHR 50 (1977): 112-115. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2(1981): 13 (seal of Ranulph, Earl of Chester dated c.1200 - A shield of arms: a lion passant. Legend: + SIGILLVM [R]A[NVFA COMITIS CESTRIE). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 75 (sub Brittany), 83 (sub England); 3 (1989): 810 (sub Thouars). Hist. Research 63 (1990): 1-16. Everard Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany & her Fam. (1999). Everard Brittany & the Angevins (2000). Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 347-360. Jones Between France & England (2003): 38-40. Wheeler & Parsons Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord & Lady (2003): 101. Richard Eales, `Ranulf (III), sixth earl of Chester and first earl of Lincoln (1170-1232)', in Word Dict. of National Biog. (2004). Bull & Léglu World of Eleanor of Aquitaine (2005).
ii. MAUD OF CHESTER, married DAVID OF SCOTLAND, Earl of Huntingdon [see BALLIOL 4].
iii. MABEL OF CHESTER, married WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel [see CLIFTON 5].
iv. AGNES OF CHESTER, married WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 4th Earl of Derby [see FERRERS 6].
v. HAWISE OF CHESTER, Countess of Lincoln, married ROBERT DE QUINCY [see QUINCY 6.i].
Child of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by an unknown mistress,
vi. AMICE OF CHESTER, married RALPH DE MAINWARING, Seneschal of Chester [see AUDLEY 6].â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married before 1135 RANULPH DE GERNONS, Knt., 5th Earl of Chester, lord of Eastham and Macclesfield, Cheshire, Coventry, Warwickshire, Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, and Greetham, Lincolnshire, etc., hereditary Vicomte of Avranches in Normandy, son and heir of Ranulph (nicknamed le Meschin), 4th Earl of Chester, hereditary Vicomte of Bayeux, by Lucy, widow of Ives de Taillebois and Roger Fitz Gerold, and heiress (and possibly daughter) of Thorold, Sheriff of Lincoln. He was probably born about 1105. She had the manor of Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire by the gift of her father. They had two sons, Hugh [6th Earl of Chester] and Richard. By an unknown mistress, he apparently had an illegitimate son, Robert Fitz Count. He was present at royal councils in Northampton, 1131, Westminster, 1132, and Windsor, 1132. He accepted King Stephen's accession in 1135, and attended the royal council at Westminster in 1136. In 1136 he witnessed the Oxford charter of liberties. In 1136 or 1137 he led a disastrous expedition into Wales from which he was one of the few to escape alive. In 1140 he attempted to capture Henry of Scotland and his wife on their return from King Stephen's court. The same year he surprised the city of Lincoln and manned it for the empress. The king's response was to visit Lincolnshire, where he peaceably renewed a pact with Ranulph. King Stephen left for London before Christmas, but made a surprise return during the festival to lay siege to Lincoln Castle. Ranulph managed to escape, obtained the armed assistance of his father-in-law, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and other Angevin adherents, raised soldiers from Cheshire and Wales, and marched back to Lincoln, where his wife and half-brother were continuing to resist the siege. At the subsequent Battle of Lincoln 2 February 1141 the king was captured, and Ranulph followed up his victory with sack and slaughter in the city itself. At the Siege of Winchester in September 1141 he initially joined the queen's army, only to encounter such suspicion and hostility that he switched to the empress's camp. In 1144 he was besieged in Lincoln by the king. He met King Stephen at Stamford probably early in 1146, where he apparently renewed his fealty to the king. The king granted him royal manors in Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire, the towns of Newcastle under Lyme, and Derby, land in Grimsby, and the soke of Grantham, plus the honors of William d'Aubeny Brito (Belvoir), Roger de Bully (Tickhill), and Roger de Poitou (Lancaster, although that which lay north of the Ribble was under Scottish control). He was also confirmed in his tenure of Lincoln Castle. He duly helped Stephen to capture Bedford town and besiege Wallingford Castle in 1146, but the king and the royalist magnates remained deeply suspicious of his failure to restore revenues from royal lands and castles he had seized. He was again with the king at Northampton 29 August 1146, but his refusal to give hostages or restore royal property led to his sudden arrest and imprisonment He was released after agreeing to Stephen's terms and taking an oath not to resist the king in future, whereupon he set about trying to recover by force what he had been obliged to surrender. Subsequent campaigns led to armed confrontations with Stephen's son Eustache, and on at least two occasions, near Coventry (probably early in 1147) and Lincoln (1149), with the king himself. He did homage to David I, King of Scots at Carlisle in 1149, who granted him the honour of Lancaster (including lands north of the Ribble) in exchange for a renunciation of claims to Carlisle. In 1150, in alliance with Madog ap Maredudd, king of Powys, he prepared an attack on Owain Gwynedd, but the enterprise collapsed after defeat at Coleshill. Some time between 1149 and 1153, he made a formal agreement with Robert, Earl of Leicester, whereby each pledged to bring only twenty knights if obliged by his liege lord to fight against the other. Both earls joined the Angevin campaign in 1153. At Devizes in 1153, Henry, Duke of Normandy gave him lavish grants in the north midlands, including the estates of several royalist barons which the earl was effectively being invited to seize; Ranulph was also restored in his 'Norman inheritance,' which has been interpreted to include Breuil, the castle of Vire, and other holdings once associated with his family, together with comital status and extensive lordship in the Avranchin. During his lifetime, Ranulph founded four religious houses, including an abbey for Savignac monks at Basingwerk, Flintshire, in 1131, priories for Benedictine monks and nuns at Minting, Lincolnshire, and Chester respectively (both at uncertain dates), and, on his deathbed, a priory for Augustinian canons at Trentham, Staffordshire. RANULPH DE GERNONS, Earl of Chester, died at Gresley, Derbyshire 17 Dec. 1153, and was buried at St. Werburg's, Chester. Sometime in the period, 1153-59, his widow, Maud, with consent of her son, Hugh, gave the canons of Calke, then part of Ticknall, the church of St. Wiestan-in-Repton, Derbyshire. Probably in 1158 Queen Eleanor, wife of Henry II, gave confirmation to his widow, Maud, of her wapentake and hundred of Repton, Derbyshire. In 1172 she founded Repton Priory, Derbyshire. Maud, Countess of Chester, died 29 July 1189.
Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 215-216. Hanshall Hist. of the County Palatine of Chester (1823): 19-21, 28 (ped.), 284. Coll Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1846): 217-218 (sub Spalding Monastery - Hugonis, primi Comitis Cestriæ et Lincolniæ.... prosapia: "... post quem successit Gernons filius ejus, qui moriens decimo sexto kalendas Januarii [17 December], jacet juxta patrem suum. successit Hugo filius ejus, qui moriens secundo kalendas Julii [30 June], jacet juxta pattern suum."); 4 (1823): (charter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester); 6(1) (1830): 410-411 (Ranulph, Earl of Chester, styled "uncle" [avunculi] by Richard Bacun), 430 ("Ranulphus dictus Gernons, comes Cestriæ, obiit xvii. kal. Januarii [16 Dec.], anno regis Stephani x-viii. Qui Ranulphus cepit Mathildem filiam Roberti comitis Gloverniæ; quæ quidem Mathildis prioratum de Repindon S. Trinitatis anno MCLXXII. decimo octavo Henrici secundi, qux Matildis obiit Augusti [29 July] anno MCLXXXIX."). Hibbert-Ware Ancient Parish Church of Manchester (1848): 16-18 (charter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester). Arch. Jour. 15 (1855): 242-246 (charter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester). Bigsby Hist. & Topog. Desc. of Repton (1854): 56-57 (charter of Maud, Countess of Chester), 57-58 (charter of Maud, Countess of Chester naming her parents, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Countess Mabel, and her grandfather, King Henry I), 58. Arch. Jour. 15 (1858): 242 (charter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 235 Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1153: "Rannulfus comes Cestrensis hoc anno obiit, cui successit Hugo filius ejus.'). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 35 (1874): 7 (charter and letter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester). Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1 (1882): 20-26 (Robert Malet styled "uncle" [avunculus] of Earl Ranulph's mother [Lucy] in charter of Henry, Duke of Normandy [afterwards King Henry II] dated c.1152). Cat. of a Selection from the Stowe MSS (1883) 10-11 (charter of Maud, Countess of Chester). Christie Annales Cestrienses, or, Chronicle of the Abbey of S. Werburg at Chester (Lancashire & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 14) (1887): 22-23 (sub A.D. 1153: "Obiit Ranulphus II. comes Cestrie."). Birch Cat. Of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 380 (seal of Maud, Countess of Chester dated mid-12th Cent -Pointed oval. In tight-fitting dress and a long maunch, standing. Legend wanting.). Round Feudal England (1895). Prou & Vidier Recueil des Charles de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire (1900-1907): 356-364 (charter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester 1147-53). C.P.R. 1399-1401 (1903): 296-297. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British 1 (1903): #51 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester to his mother, Countess Maud, dated c.1162-7; charter names his father, Earl Ranulph), #52 (charter of Maud, Countess of Chester, dated c.1162-7, granted with consent of her son, Earl Hugh; charter names her aunt [amita], Empress Maud, her parents, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Countess Mabel, and her husband, Earl Ranulph). Jeayes Desc. Cat. of Derbyshire Charters (1906): 242-243 (charter of Maud, Countess of Chester, dated 1153-60 names her grandfather, King Henry I of England, and her parents, Robert, of Gloucester, and Countess Mabel), 244 (charter of Maud, Countess of Chester, dated c.1162-1167 names her parents, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Countess Mabel), 244 (Maud, Countess of Chester, styled "kinswoman" [cognata] by King Henry II of England in charter dated ?1175). Marx ed. Gesta Normannorum Ducum (1914): 331 (Guillaume de Jumièges: "Predictus autem Rannulfus comes accepit uxorem Mathildem, filiam Roberti comitis de Gloecestria, ex qua genuit duos filios, Hugonem et Ricardum.â€). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 360-361. Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924)1., 34. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 1924 (1926): 30-31 (charter of Countess Maud and her son, Earl Hugh). Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 4 Ser. 20 (1937): 103-134 (biog. of Ranulf de Gernons, Earl of Chester: "The man was haughty and proud; touchy upon the point of honour, but faithless and utterly untrammelled by any scruple in the pursuit of his ends; determined as a spoilt child to gratify his desires and ambitions."). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 356-357 (charter of Robert Fitz Count, Constable of Chester). C.P. 3 (1913): 166-167; 4 (1916): 670 (chart), 5 (1926): 686, footnote b (sub Gloucester); 7 (1929): 677; 12(1) (1953): 274 (re. Robert Fitz Count). Barraclough Earldom & County Palatinate of Chester (1953): 57-513 (Benedict styled "brother of the Earl" in charter issued by Ranulph, 5th Earl of Chester). English Hist. Rev. 75 (1960), 654-660; 91 (1976): 555-565. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 32-33. Stenton First Cent. of English Feudalism, 1066-1166 (1961). Davis King Stephen (1967): 132-134. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 5, 171 (Appendix, No. 227: Donor: Earl William [of Gloucester]; Date: Before 1135; Beneficiary: Matilda the earl's daughter; Description: Chipping Campden (Glos.); Source: Misc. D.M. Stenton, 26). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Barraclough Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c.1071-1237 (Lancashire & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 126) (1988) 81 (Richard Bacun styled "kinsman and retainer" [cognatus meus et familiaris] by Ranulph de Gernons, Earl of Chester, in charter dated 1143-44). Anglo-Norman Studies 14 (1991): 39-59. Brown Eye Priory Cartulary & Charters 2 (Suffolk Rec. Soc) (1994): 28 (Robert Malet called "uncle" of Earl Ranulph's mother in 1153 by King Henry II). Katherine Keats-Rohan Parentage of Countess Lucy made Plain,' in Prosopon Newsletter (1995): 1-3 (identifes Lucy, wife of Ranulph, 4th Earl of Chester, as daughter of Turold, Sheriff of Lincoln). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 88. Graeme White, `Ranulf (II), fourth earl of Chester (d. 1153)', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). National Archives, DL 25/36 (charter dated 1129-53 by Ranulph, Earl of Chester, addressed to his Bishop of Bangor, etc., notifying that Robert, Earl of Gloucester, gave to Maud his daughter, Countess of Chester, [Chipping] Campden [Campadene], and that he has confirmed it to her) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).â€
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“Children of Saher de Quincy, Knt., by Margaret of Leicester:
i. ROBERT DE QUINCY, son and heir apparent. He married c.1197-1200 (date of charter) HAWISE OF CHESTER, suo jure Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux [see CHESTER 5 for her ancestry]. She was born in 1180. She had 10 librates of land in Waddington, land in Sibsey, and the service of three fees in Cabourn in marriage. They had one daughter, Margaret (or Margery). He and his father were captured at the Battle of Lincoln 20 May 1217. ROBERT DE QUINCY died at London in 1217, and was buried at the Church of the Hospitallers, Clerkenwell, Middlesex. In the period, 1217-19, his widow, Hawise, granted a rent to the brethren of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England for the foundation of a chantry at the Hospitallers' house at Clerkenwell, Middlesex, for the soul of her husband, Robert. About 1230-1 his widow, Hawise, received a charter from her brother, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, purporting to convey to her the Earldom of Lincoln. On 27 October 1232, shortly after Ranulph's death, the King granted the 3rd penny of the county of Lincoln to Hawise as the Earl's sister and co-heiress, in consequence of which grant she may be held to have become the Countess of Lincoln. On the preliminary division of the honour of Chester, she received the castle and manor of Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, with the Earl's lands in Lindsey and Holland. As Hawise, Countess of Lincoln, she presented to the churches of Toynton All Saints, Lincolnshire, 1235, 1237; Little Steeping, Lincolnshire, 1235; a mediety of Toynton St. Peter, Lincolnshire, 1237; and Winceby, Lincolnshire, 1233, ?1246-7. In 1241 she sued Amabel, widow of Richard Rufus, in a plea of dower in Northamptonshire. Hawise de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln, died shortly before 19 Feb. 1242/3. Brooke Cat. Kings, Dukes, etc., of England (1622): 342. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 544-545. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 134-135. Ormerod Hist. of Chester 1 (1819): 28. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 442-443 (sub Quincy). Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Giles Chronicon Anglia Petributgense (1845): 136 (sub A.D. 1241: "Obiit domina Hawisia Quincy, comitissa Lincolniæ"). Top. & Gen. 1 (1846): 316, 320 (charter and seal of Hawise de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln). Mems. Ill of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Lincoln (1850): 253-279, esp. 271-272 ("The Seal of the Countess Hawise exists in an imperfect impression in the British Museum. The circular device in the centre is slightly sunk, and it was possibly a large antique intaglio, set into the matrix. Above and below, is placed a mascle, the armorial bearing of Quency, her husband's family."). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 289 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1217: "Obiit Robertus de Quinci filius Secri de Quinci"). Ellis Antiqs. of Heraldry (1869): 195-196. Leycester & Mainwaring Tracts written in the Controversy respecting the Legitimacy of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester 3 (Chetham Soc. 80) (1869): 334-335. Fraser Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, AD. 1147-1535 (1872): 91-94. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 35 (1874): 8. Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 460. Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 2 (Rolls Ser. 73) (1880): 110-111. Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1 (1882): 26-33. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 280-283. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 151-152. Dowden Chartulary of the Abbey of Lindores 1195-1479 (Scottish Hist. Soc. 42) (1903): 276-277. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 531-532. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 3. Lindsay et al. Charters, Bulls & Other Docs. Rel. the Abbey of Inchaffrray (Scottish Hist. Soc. 56) (1908): lxxxvi-lxxxix, 245 (Robert styled "eldest son" in charter of his father). D.N.B. 16 (1909): 556-559 (biog. of Saer de Quincy). C.P. 3 (1913): 169, footnote a; 7 (1929): 675-676 (sub Lincoln); 12(2) (1959): 748 footnote g, 751 (sub Winchester); 14 (1998): 436 (sub Lincoln). Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8° Ser. 37) (1913): 15. Davis Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 9) (1914): 211. Grosseteste Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 9, 11, 17, 23, 44, 87. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). C.C.R. 1242-1247 (1916): 89, 271. Fowler Cal IPM 1 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5) (1920): 235-238. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 96, 247-248. Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 10-11, 96-99. Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Peds. (1925): 11 (ped. of Earls of Chester). Easson Charters of the Abbey of Coupar-Angus 1 (Scottish Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 40) (1947): 3 (confuses Robert de Quincy, died 1217, with his grandfather, Robert de Quincy, died 1200). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 79. Major Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 6 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 41) (1950): 44. Medievalia et Humanistica 11(1957): 3-10. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 464: 1-8 (sub Quincy). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 18, 32-33. Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 230-239 (assigns Robert de Quincy the wrong parentage). VCH Lancaster 1 (1906): 306. Duchy of Lancaster 3 (PRO Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 5) (1964): 73, 82, 101. Tremlett Rolls of Arms Heng III (H.S.P 113-4) (1967): 19 (Matthew Paris shields - arms of Robert de Quincy: Gules, seven voided lozenges conjoined or). Curia Regis Rolls 15 (1972): 162-163, 282, 287, 365-366, 419, 439, 498-499; 16 (1979): 411; 17 (1991): 150, 407-408; 18 (1999): 301. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 200-201 ("Hawise's husband was Robert son of Saber and not... a younger brother of Saber called Robert, otherwise unknown;" cities Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 1 (1833): 342; Duchy of Lancaster 3 (PRO Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 5) (1964): 82.). TG 5 (1984): 221-225. Barraclough Charters of the Earls of Chester (Lanc. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 126) (1988): 209, 302, 305-309, 309-310 (Lady Hawise de Quincy styled "my dearest sister" [sorori mee karissimel by Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln in charter dated 1232), 441-442. Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 22. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln n.s. 3(4) (1989): 708 (sub Quency). Anderson Early Sources of Scottish Hist. 2 (1990): 488 (Chron. of Peterborough sub anno 1232: "Also in the same year, or in the following year according to some, Randolph, the earl of Chester and lord of Bolingbroke, died at his castle of Wallingford... He was exceedingly renowned and famous in the whole kingdom. And because he had no children, his heritage was divided among his four sisters; namely Matilda, the wife of earl David; Mabel, the wife of the earl of Arundel; and Agnes, the wife of earl William de Ferrieres; and Hawisia, who married Robert Quincey, the earl of Winchester. And Hawisia Quincey, the fourth sister of Randolph, acquired the earldom of Lincoln. And she bore a daughter, Margaret, [wife of Walter] Marshal, earl of Pembroke; upon whose death she married John de Lacy, the constable of Chester: and his son was Edmund Lacy, whose son was Henry Lacy, whose daughter and heir was Alice de Lacy, who died in the year of the Lord 1349."), 488 footnote 4 (cites Chron. of Peterborough, 136, sub anno 1241: "Lady Hawisia Quincey, the countess of Lincoln, died"). Owen Medieval Lindsey Marsh (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 85) (1996): 88-89 (charter of Hawise de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln dated 1240). Haskins Society Jour. 10 (2002): 171-172 (discusses charters dated c.1200 concerning the marriage of Robert and Hawise).
Child of Robert de Quincy, by Hawise of Chester:
a. MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, married (1st) JOHN DE LACY (also known as JOHN OF CHESTER), Knt., Earl of Lincoln, hereditary Constable of Chester, Magna Carta baron [see LACY 31; (2nd) WALTER MARSHAL, Knt., Earl of Pembroke, hereditary Master Marshal [see LACY 3; MARSHAL 3.iv].â€
4. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel, Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor, Judge in the King's Court, 1198, 1200, 1218, son and heir. He married MABEL OF CHESTER, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux, seigneur of Montfort-l'Amaury [see CHESTER 5 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, William [4th Earl of Arundel] and Hugh [5th Earl of Arundel], and four daughters, Maud, Nichole (or Colette), Cecily, and Isabel. In 1194 he was one of the Receivers of the money raised for the king's ransom. He assisted at the Coronation of King John in 1199. In 1213 he witnessed the instrument by which King John resigned the crown of England into the hands of the Pope. He served a joint envoy to treat with the Barons in 1215. He went on Crusade in 1218 and was present at the Siege of Damietta later that year. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel, died at Cainell near Rome 1 Feb. 1220/1. His remains were conveyed to England and buried in Wymondham Priory, Norfolk.
Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 30, 44. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1821): 330 (sub Wymondham Monastery: "Memorandum, quod Willielmus de Albaneio, pincerna regis Henrici, fundavit ecclesiam monachorum de Wymundham. Qui quidem Willielmus habuit unum filium Willielmum, comitem Arundeliae; qui Willielmus comes habuit unum filium Willelmum, comitem Sussexiae; qui Willielmus comes habuit unum filium Willielmum, comitem Sussexiæ; qui Willielmus habuit unum fratrem Hugonem, comitem Sussexiæ; qui Hugo moriebatur sine hærede de corpore suo, et quatuor sorores fuerunt propinquiores hæredes ejus, et diviserunt totum comitatum Sussexiæ inter eas: quarum unam desponsavit dominus le Fitz Allen, et aliam dominus de Montealto, et aliam domus Robertus de Tathesale, et aliam dominus de Somerie, et advocatio ecclesiæ de Wymundeham allocata fuit domino Roberto de Tateshale, et uxori ejus, tenenda de se et hæredibus suis in puram et perpetuam elemosinam; qui quidem Robertus de Tathesale, habuit filium et hadredem Robertum de Tathesale, cujus erant tres filiae, quarum unam desponsavit dominus Johannes Orby, aliam dominus de Dryby, et tertiam dominus Thomas Caily qui habuit unum filium et hæredem, scilicet Thomam Caily, qui obiit sine hærede de corpore suo, cujus sororem duxit Rogerus de Clyfton armiger prædicti Thomæ. Iste Rogerus habuit unum filium et hæredem, scilicet, dominum Adam de Clyfton, qui habuit filium et hæredem Constantinum de Clyfton, qui gabuit filium et haeredem dominum Johannem de Clyfton, qui habuit filium et hæredem Constantinum de Clyfton, qui quidem Constantinus habuit unum filium et hæredem dominum Johannem de Clyfton, qui nunc est dominus de Wymundham."). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 181-185. Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 2-3 (sub Albini, Earls of Arundel). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 176-177 (Knevet ped.: "Willielmus Dawbeny Comes Arundell nupcit Mabillam filiam et unam heredum Radulphi Comitis Cestrie et Lincolnie."). Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1 (1882): 26-33. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 67 (sub Arundel). C.P. 1 (1910): 236-238,237 (chart) (sub Arundel). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, styled "uncle" [avunculus] of Warin de Munchensy in 1213, he being half-brother of Warin's mother, Aveline de Clare). Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 10-11. Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 152-156 (Daubeny pedigree: "Willelmus Daubeney comes de Arundell sepultus in Abbathia predicta ob. 1 lo. = [empty roundel] Mabilia filia et coh. Ranulfi co. Cestrie."). Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 132 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. [Feb] [1 Feb.]. Obiit Willelmus Comes de Arundel.").
Children of Mabel of Chester, by William d'Aubeney:
i. HUGH D'AUBENEY, Knt., 5th Earl of Arundel, Chief Butler of England, 2nd son of William d'Aubeney, 3rd Earl of Arundel, by Mabel, 2nd daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester. He was born about 1214 (of age in 1235). He was heir in 1224 to his older brother, William d'Aubeney, 4th Earl of Arundel. He was co-heir in 1232 to his uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. In 1233 he made fine with the king by 2500 marks to have the lands of his late brother, William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, until his legal age, as well as the lands which fell to Hugh by hereditary right of the lands formerly of his uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. He married in 1234 ISABEL DE WARENNE, daughter of William de Warenne, Knt., 6th Earl of Surrey, Warden of the Cinque Ports, by Maud, daughter of William Marshal, Knt, 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Striguil), hereditary Master Marshal [see WARENNE 8 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. In 1240 he was summoned to restore the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire to the king as an escheat of the Normans. Hugh stated that he, his brother, and his father had all been given livery of the lands, but, though he quoted the terms of the original grant made to his father in 1207, Whaddon was surrendered to the king. In 1242 he accompanied the King in his expedition to Guienne. SIR HUGH D'AUBENEY, Earl of Arundel, died 7 May 1243, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk. In 1244 his widow, Countess Isabel, sued Robert de Sheney for the third part of one carucate of land in Smisby, Derbyshire, and Ralph de Kenninghall for the third part of nine acres of land and one acre pf pasture in Kenninghall, Norfolk, and the one third part of 14 acres of land in Riddlesworth, Norfolk. The same year she also sued Thomas le Treys for the third part of one carucate of land in Atdeborough, Norfolk, William de Oddingseles for the third part of one-half carucate of land in Leeds, Yorkshire, Roger de Somery and Nichole his wife for the third part of two carucates of land in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, and one third part of one carucate of land in Great Tew, Oxfordshire, and Hugh le Bigod for the one third part of one carucate of land in Stoughton, Sussex. In 1249 Countess Isabel founded the Abbey of Marham, Norfolk. She presented to the church of Shenley, Buckinghamshire in 1272. In 1271 Roger de Somery was engaged in a lengthy lawsuit with her regarding the advowson of the church of Olney, Buckinghamshire; in 1273 it was noted that the patronage of the church was to remain with Roger by a concord between him and Countess Isabel. In 1277-8 Master John de Croft arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Bilsham, Sussex. In 1278-9 Nigel le Got arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Wymondham, Norfolk. Isabel, Countess of Arundel, died shortly before 23 Nov. 1282, and was buried at Marham, Norfolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1(1805): 216-218; 4 (1775): 125-128; 9 (1808): 42-59. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 743, 744 (charter of Isabel d'Aubeney, Countess of Arundel; charter witnessed by her brothers, Sir Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, Sir Hugh Bigod, and John de Warenne). Dignity of a Peer of the Realm (1826): 389-434. Hunter South Yorkshire 1 (1828): 105 (Warenne ped.). Wainright Hist. & Top. Intro. of the Wapentake of Stafford & Tickhill (1829): 168-169, 195-196 (Warenne ped.). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 2(1) (1832): 128 (Warenne ped.). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 186-192. Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 331, 639-640. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 2-3 (sub Albini, Earls of Arundel). Matthew of Paris Matthæi Parisiensis 2 (Rolls Ser. 44) (1866): 477 (sub A.D. 1243: "Anno sub eodem, nonis Maii [7 May], obiit comes Harundeliæ Hugo de Albineto, in ætate juvenili, cum jam vix metas adolescentiæ pertransisset. Et apud Wimundham, in ecclesia Sanctæ Mariæ, videlicet prioratum Sancto Albano pertinentem, est sepultus, cum patribus sins dictæ ecclesiæ patronis et fundatoribus."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33. Matthew of Paris Chronica Majjora 5 (Rolls See. 57) (1880): 336-337 (Countess Isabel de Warenne, widow of Hugh d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, styled "king's kinswoman" [regis cognate]). Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 176-177 (Knevet ped.: "Hugo Comes Arundell post mortem Willielmi fratris sin non habuit exitum et sepelitur in Abathia predicta."). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 47 (1886): 163; 48 (1887): 214. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 68 (sub Arundel). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 280-283. Grazebrook Barons of Dudley 1 (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 9(2)) (1888): 20. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 415-416. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 30. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 85, 550. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. Martin Hist. of the Manor of Westhope (1909): 15-33. C.P. 1 (1910): 237 (chart), 238-239 (sub Arundel). Round King's Serjeants & Officers of State (1911): 140-165. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 236-238 (sub Warenne). Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Pleas. (1925): 11 (ped. of Earls of Chester). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 435-442. Romania 55 (1929): 332-381. Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 152-156 (Daubeny ped.: "Hugo comes Atundell post mortem Willelmi fratris sin non habuit exitum et sepelitur in abbathia predicta ob. 28 H. 3. = filia domini [left blank]."). C.C.R. 1268-1272 (1938): 391-392. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 12: 1-6 (sub Aubigny). C.R.R. 16 (1979): 499; 18 (1999): 151-152, 216, 222, 241, 247, 261, 310. VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 194-208. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 157. Morris Bigod Earls of NoRFolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): opp. 1 (chart). Henry III Fine Rolls Project (R[anulph] Earl of Chester and Lincoln styled "uncle" of Hugh d'Aubeney, brother and heir of William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel in a fine roll item dated 1233) (abs. of record available at www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_033.htm1).
ii. MAUD D'AUBENEY [see next].
iii. NICHOLE (or COLETTE) D'AUBENEY, married ROGER DE SOMERY, Knt., of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see SOMERY 3].
iv. CECILY D'AUBENEY; married ROGER DE MOHAUT, Knt., of Mold, Cheshire, Castle Rising, Norfolk, etc. [see MORLEY 6].
v. ISABEL D'AUBENEY, married JOHN FITZ ALAN, of Clun and Oswestry, Shropshire [see FITZ ALAN 6].â€
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