Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (1094 – 25 November 1120) was the son of Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, and his wife, Ermentrude of Clermont...
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d'Avranches (c. 1047 – 27 July 1101), nicknamed le Gros (the Large) or Lupus (the Wolf), was from 1071 the second Norman Earl of Chester and one of the...
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Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester 1071–1101 Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester (died 1101) 1101–1120 Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (1094–1120)...
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with Hugh d'Avranches - the Earl of Chester, the patronage of kings William II Rufus and Henry I Beauclerc, and his marriage to Lucy, heiress of the Bolingbroke-Spalding...
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ship. Richard of Lincoln, Henry's illegitimate son. Richard's betrothed, Amice, did not travel with him. Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester Lucia-Mahaut...
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of Champagne Odo of Blois Adela, married Milo II of Montlhéry Stephen, King of England Lucia-Mahaut, married Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester...
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Montgomery the earl of Shrewsbury and Hugh d'Avranches the earl of Chester . Likewise, the king's half-brother Odo of Bayeux was made earl of Kent to guard...
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between 1110 and 1119. Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1887). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant,...
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6th Earl of Chester and 1st Earl of Lincoln (1170 – 26 October 1232), known in some references as the 4th Earl of Chester (in the second lineage of the...
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Blois Odo, who died young Stephen, King of England Matilda, married Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester. Both drowned on 25 November 1120 in the...
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Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester 1101 1120 Earl of Shrewsbury (1074) Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury 1098 1102 Forfeit Earl of Northampton...
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Irish archbishop and saint (d. 1148) Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (d. 1120) Yelü Dashi, founder of the Qara Khitai (d. 1143) January 10 –...
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Henry I Ralph of Pont-Echanfray, Norman knight (b. 1070) Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (b. 1094) William Adelin, duke and son of Henry I (b....
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Creation) Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester (1071–1101) Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (1101–1120) Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester (1120–1129)...
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St Winefride's Well (category Springs of Wales)
Calendar of Welsh Saints in Cotton Vespasian A.xiv. The grant of the church to St Werburgh's was confirmed by Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester, in...
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Adelin, son of Henry I (born 1103) Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester, Anglo-Norman noble and soldier (born 1094) Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche...
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related to the custody of Chester Castle (built in 1070 by Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester), as was the main function of most mediaeval constables...
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between 1120 and 1129. Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1887). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant,...
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Henry I Ralph of Pont-Echanfray, Norman knight (b. 1070) Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (b. 1094) William Adelin, duke and son of Henry I (b....
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Calke Abbey (category Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire)
Priory was founded by Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester some time between 1115 and 1120 and was dedicated to St Giles; d'Avranches had inherited from...
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Earl of Carrick (or Mormaer of Carrick) is the title applied to the ruler of Carrick (now South Ayrshire), subsequently part of the Peerage of Scotland...
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receptions and other purposes. Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester (c. 1047 – 27 July 1101), first in the cemetery of Saint Werberg, reburied in the Chapter...
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brother). The Prince of Wales usually has other titles and honours, if the eldest son of the monarch: Since 1301, the title 'Earl of Chester' has generally...
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Irish archbishop and saint (d. 1148) Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (d. 1120) Yelü Dashi, founder of the Qara Khitai (d. 1143) 1095 July 4...
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Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey 1204–1206 and 1214 Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent 1215–1220 Geoffery de Lucy 1224 (and 1230) William d'Avranches 1226–1227...
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of minority. Earl of Chester (First creation) Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester (1067–1071) Earl of Chester (Second creation) Hugh d'Avranches,...
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merged with the Crown. Richard of Bordeaux (1367–1400) also Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester (1376) When Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, pressed his...
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Powys 1120 25 November - Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester, 26 (drowned in the White Ship) 1129 date unknown Richard Fitz Pons, Marcher lord Walter...
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William de Percy (category Christians of the First Crusade)
Abbey states that Hugh d'Avranches (later 1st Earl of Chester). It is possible that Percy had been one of the Normans to whom King Edward the Confessor...
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result of an affair between his mother and one of her loyal supporters. Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond,...
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