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    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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    Blois Odo, who died young Stephen, King of England Lucia-Mahaut, married Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester. Both drowned on 25 November 1120 in the...
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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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    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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  • 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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  •   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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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)
    18th-century female line of the Dukes of Northumberland. The Cartulary of Whitby Abbey states that Hugh d'Avranches (later 1st Earl of Chester) and William de...
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    owned directly by Earl Siward in 1066, all of them subsequently held by Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester. This land was stated to have been worth £212...
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