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Ives de Taillebois

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  • Name Ives de Taillebois 
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I6930  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Lucy Thoroldsdottir 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3098  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “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.”). 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).”