Ancestral Trails 2016 » RANULPH de GERNON (1099-1153)

Personal data RANULPH de GERNON 

• He was born in the year 1099 in Château Guernon, Calvados, Normandie, France.
• Title: 4th Earl of Chester
• (Event) on August 29, 1146 in Seized at court by King Stephen for his part in the Battle of Lincoln.Source 1
• (Titles) in the year 1136 in Held office of Constable of Lincoln.
• (Military) on February 2, 1140/41 in Fought in Battle of Lincoln against King Stephen.Source 1
• (Alternative Name) : Ranulf II de Gernon.
• (Titles) in the year 1129 in Succeeded to the title of Vicomte D'Avranches.
• (Titles) in the year 1129 in Succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Chester.
• He died on December 16, 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, he was 54 years old.Source 1

  Poisoned

• He is buried in the year 1153 in St Werburg's, Chester, Cheshire.Source 1
• A child of RANULPH de MESCHINES and LUCIA MALET

Household of RANULPH de GERNON

He is married to MAUD OF GLOUCESTER.

They got married in the year 1139 at Chester, Cheshire, he was 40 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Johanna de MESCHINES  1145-1196
2. HUGH KEVELIOC  1146-1181 
3. Albreda de MESCHINES  1140-1166 
4. Beatrix of CHESTER  1142-???? 
5. Alice de MESCHINES  1152-1222 

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about RANULPH de GERNON

Ranulf II (also known as Ranulf de Gernon) (1099-1153) was an Anglo-Norman potentate who inherited the honour of the palatine county of Chester upon the death of his father Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester. He was descended from the Counts of Bessin in Normandy.

In 1136 David I of Scotland invaded England as far as Durham but was forced by Stephen of England to negotiate treaties that involved granting Ranulf's lands to Scotland. Ranulf allied himself to Matilda to further his cause. He took Lincoln Castle in 1141, which was retaken by Stephen in a siege in which Ranulf was forced to flee for his life. Ranulf enlisted the help of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester to retake the castle and succeeded when King Stephen surrendered to him at Lincoln. While Matilda ruled England, Stephen's queen Matilda of Boulogne managed to defeat Ranulf and his allies at Winchester, which eventually resulted in Stephen being able to resume the throne.

Ranulf was born in Normandy at the Château Guernon, around 1100. He was the son of Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester and Lucy of Bolingbroke, who were both significant landowners with considerable autonomy within the county palatine. His father had begun a new lineage of the earldom of Chester. Ranulf married Maud, daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester and inherited the earldom in 1128. Three years later he founded an abbey in North Wales, colonised by monks from the Norman Congregation of Savigny.

In 1153 Henry - by then Stephen's accepted heir - granted Staffordshire to Ranulf. That year, whilst Ranulf was a guest at the house of William Peverel the Younger, his host attempted to kill him with poisoned wine. Three of his men who had drunk the wine died, while Ranulf suffered agonizing pain. A few months later Henry became king and exiled Peverel from England as punishment. Ranulf succumbed to the poison on 16 December 1153: his son Hugh inherited his lands as held in 1135 (when Stephen took the throne), while other honours bestowed upon Ranulf were revoked.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulf_de_Gernon,_4th_Earl_of_Chester


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