Bob Juch's Kin

235933824. Roland le Strange was born 1096 in Cheswardine, Shropshire, England. He died before 1158. Roland married Matilda le Brun on 1141 in of Cheswardine, Shropshire, England. [Parents]

235933825. Matilda le Brun was born about 1100 in of Cheswardine, Shropshire, England. [Parents]

235933840. Stephen de Somery.

235933842. Ralph Paynel was born about 1100 in of Dudley, Worcestershire, England. [Parents]

235933844. Gilbert "The Marshall" FitzRobert was born about 1075 in Somersetshire, England. He died before 1130. Gilbert married Mary de Venuz. [Parents]

The earliest notice of this family occurs in the time of Henry I, when Gilbert Mareschall, and John, his son, were impleaded by Robert de Venoix and William de Hastings for the office of Mareschal to the king, but without success. The son, (bearing the same surname, derived from his office), was called John Mareschall. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 357, Marshal, Barons Marshal

235933845. Mary de Venuz was born 1105 in of Pembroke, Pembrokshire, Wales. [Parents]

235933846. Walter FitzEdward d'Evereaux Sheriff of Wiltshire was born about 1087 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He died ¹ 1147 in Chitterne, Wiltshire, England and was buried in near The Choir, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England. Walter married Sibyl de Chaworth about 1117 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. [Parents]

Founder of Bradenstock Priory

235933847. Sibyl de Chaworth ¹ was born about 1112 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England. She died 1147 in Near The Choir, Braenstoke, Wiltshire, England and was buried in Priory, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England. [Parents]

235933848. William "The Strong Hand" d'Aubigny 4th Earl of Arundel and Earl of Lincoln was born 1100. He died 12 Oct 1176 in Waverley Abbey, Surrey, England and was buried in Wymondham Priory, Norfolk, England. William married Adeliza (Adelicia) of Louvain on 1138. [Parents]

He was influential in arranging the treaty of 1153, whereby the Crown continued with King Stephen for life, though the inheritance thereof was secured to Henry II. To this instrument he subscribed as "Comes Cicestrie." Henry II, by a grant undated, but supposed to have been in 1155 (the year after his accession), confirms to him as "William, EARL OF ARUNDEL, the Castle of Arundel, with the whole honor of Arundel and all its appurtenances," and, by the same instrument, bestows on him the third penny of the pleas of the county of SUSSEX unde Comes est. He was justly held in great esteem by Henry II, and was one of the embassy to Rome in 1163/4, and to Saxony (on the espousal of the Princess to the Duke of Saxony) in 1168. He was also in command of the Royal army in August 1173, in Normandy, against the King's rebellious sons, where he distinguished himself for his "swiftness and velocity," and, on 29 September following he assisted at the defeat, near Bury St. Edmunds, of the Earl of Leicester, who, with his Flemings, had invaded Suffolk.

235933849. Adeliza (Adelicia) of Louvain ^{1, 2} was born about 1103 in Brabant, Netherlands. She died ² 23 Apr 1151 in Affligham, Flanders, France.

235933850. James de St. Hilary ^{1, 2} was born about 1105 in Harcourt, Eure, Normandy, France. He died ² about 1154. James married Aveline on 1130. [Parents]

Are Matilda and Maud the same person?

235933851. Aveline ¹ was born about 1109 in France.

235933852. Ranulph de Gernon 4th Earl of Chester Vicomte de Avranches ^{1, 2} was born ³ 1099 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France. He died ³ 16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England and was buried in St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England. Ranulph married ³ Maud FitzRobert de Caen about 1141 in Gloucestershire, England. [Parents]

Ranulph de Meschines (surnamed de Gernons, from being born in Gernon Castle, in Normandy), Earl of Chester. This nobleman, who was a leading military character, took an active part with the Empress Maud, and the young Prince Henry, against King Stephen, in the early part of the contest, and having defeated the king and made him prisoner at the battle of Lincoln, committed him to the castle of Bristol. He subsequently, however, sided with the king, and finally, distrusted by all, died under excommunication in 1155, supposed to have been poisoned by William Peverell, Lord of Nottingham, who being suspected of the crime, is said to have turned monk to avoid its punishment. The earl m. Maud, dau. of Robert, surnamed the Consul, Earl of Gloucester, natural son of King Henry I, and had issue, Hugh, his successor, named Keveliok, from the place of his birth, in Merionethshire; Richard; Beatrix, m. to Ralph de Malpas. His lordship was s. by his elder son, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 365, Meschines, Earls of Chester]

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Ranulf II de Gernons, 4th Earl of Chester, VICOMTE (Viscount) DEBAYEUX, VICOMTE D'AVRANCHES, Ranulf also spelled RANDULF, or RALPH (b. c. 1100--d. Dec. 16, 1153), a key participant in the English civil war (from 1139) between King Stephen and the Holy Roman empress Matilda (also a claimant to the throne of England). Ranulf, nicknamed 'aux Gernons' (i.e. moustaches), played a prominent and vacillating part in the civil war of Stephen's reign, his actions, in common with most of his peers, springing from personal grievances rather than dynastic loyalty or principle. Ranulf's father, Ranulf I, had been granted the earldom of Chester in 1121 after his maternal uncle had drowned in the White Ship disaster (1120) but, in return, had been compelled to surrender Cumberland and his patrimony of Carlisle. The restoration of these lost estates was the mainspring of much of Ranulf II's political life. Inheriting the Chester earldom in 1129, he initially supported Stephen as king after 1135. However, successive treaties between Stephen and King David of Scotland in 1136 and 1139 gave the Scots large tracts of land in Cumberland coveted by Ranulf who reacted by seizing the town and besieging the castle. Ranulf now allied with the Empress Matilda in defeating the king at Lincoln in February 1141, capturing and briefly imprisoning Stephen. Ranulf's association with the Angevin party was cemented by his marriage in 1141 to the daughter of Robert of Gloucester. Later (1149) he transferred his allegiance to the king in return for a grant of the city and castle of Lincoln. Coventry received its original charter from him. However, his territorial ambitions were no closer realization as the king of Scots was also a close ally of Matilda. In 1145, Ranulf was reconciled to Stephen. However, there was no love lost between Ranulf and the king's entourage, many of whom had suffered at his hands. In August, 1146, at Northampton, Ranulf was suddenly arrested and put in chains when he refused the king's demand to restore all lands he had taken. He was only released when he surrendered all former royal property, including Lincoln. Stephen's arrest of Ranulf was a public relations disaster. He had broken his oath of reconciliation of 1145 and his own promise of protection, thus deterring any more defections from the Angevin faction. Stephen had breached a central tenet of effective medieval rule, that of being a good -- i.e. fair -- lord. Ranulf joined Henry FitzEmpress and was reconciled with David of Scotland who, in return for the lavish grant to Ranulf of most of Lancashire, retained Carlisle. But Ranulf was never a party man. His priorities remained centered on his own territorial and dynastic advantage, as shown by his 'conventio' with a leading royalist baron Robert of Leicester (1149/53). Under this treaty, the two magnates , independently of their rival liege-lords Stephen and Henry FitzEmpress, agreed to limit any hostilities forced between them by their masters and to protect their respective tenurial positions. Ranulf's career, notorious for his arrest in 1146, is more significant as evidence that the drama of high politics was played against a dense background of baronial competition for rights, lands, and inheritances which took precedence over any claims of royalty. [Encyclopedia Britannica CD'97, RANULF DE GERNONS, 4TH EARL OF CHESTER]

235933853. Maud FitzRobert de Caen ¹ was born 1117 in Gloucestershire, England. She died ¹ 29 Jul 1189 in Chester, England. [Parents]

235933854. Simon III de Montfort Count d'Evereux ¹ was born 1117 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France. He died ^{2, 3} 13 Mar 1180/1181 in France. Simon married Maud de Beaumont about 1150. [Parents]

235933855. Maud de Beaumont ¹ was born about 1126 in Monmouth Castle, Gloucestershire, England. She died about 1164. [Parents]

235933952. Hugh I de Pebenham was born about 1125 in Carlton, Bedfordshire, England. [Parents]

235933960. Robert III de St. Remy was born in Wilden, Bedfordshire, England. He married Bardolf. [Parents]

235933961. Bardolf was born in Bradwell, Essex, England. [Parents]

235933988. Robert de Crevequer died 1119. [Parents]

235933992. William de Auberville was born in Barley, Derbyshire, England. He married Maud de Glandville. [Parents]

235933993. Maud de Glandville died after 1195. [Parents]

235934000. Hamon de Peche was born about 1100 in Clopton, Suffolk, England. He died before 1185. Hamon married Alice Perverel before 1035. [Parents]

235934001. Alice Perverel was born about 1103. [Parents]

235934002. Walter FitzRobert Lord of Dunmow Castle was born about 1130 in Little Dummow, Essex, England. He died ¹ 1198. Walter married Matilda de Lucy about 1154 in of Norfolk, England. [Parents]

Walter FitzRobert, in the 12th of Henry II, upon the assessment in aid of marrying the king's dau., certified his knights' fees to be in number sixty-three and a half, de Veteri feoffamento; and three and a fourth part, de Novo, for all of which he paid 44p. 10s. In the great controversy between John, Earl of Moreton, (brother of King Richard, ) and William de Longchamp, bishop of Ely, whom the king left governor of the realm during his absence in the Holy Land, this Walter adhered to the bishop and had, at that time, custody of the castle of Eye, in Suffolk. He m. 1st, Margaret de Bohun, who d. in 1146; and 2ndly in 1148, Maud de Lucy, with whom he had the lordship of Dis, in Norfolk, and by whom he left at his decease, 1198, a son, Robert FitzWalter. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 212, FitzWalter, Barons FitzWalter]

235934003. Matilda de Lucy was born about 1136 in of Diss, Norfolk, England. She died about 1243. [Parents]

235934048. Hamo de Valoines was born about 1134 in Parham, Plomesgate, Suffolk, England. [Parents]

235934052. Lord Robert de Creke was born in Hillington, Norfolk, England. [Parents]

235934054. William de Lancaster Governor of Lancaster, Lord Kendal was born about 1115 in Kendal, Westmorland, England. He died about 1170. William married Gundred de Warenne about 1154. [Parents]

235934055. Gundred de Warenne ^{1, 2} was born about 1109 in Surrey, Surrey, England. She died ³ about 1166 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England and was buried in Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland. [Parents]

235934056. Lord Gilbert Blound was born 1120 in Ixworth, Suffolk, England. He died after 1188. Gilbert married Agnes de l'Isle in Ixworth, Suffolk, England. [Parents]

235934057. Agnes de l'Isle was born 1129. She died 1198.

235934080. Veil Engaine was born in Pytchley, Northamptonshire, England. He died after 1130. [Parents]