married Maud, d'Avranches Margaret on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Earl of Chester

Notes:

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Ranulph, also styled "de Briquessart," was Vicomte de Bayeux in Normandy;
first cousin and heir to the last Earl (whom he succeeded as Vicomte
d'Avranches, etc.); became Earl of Chester in 1120; Commander of Royal
Forces in Normandy, 1124. {-"The Complete Peerage," London, Vol. 3, pp.
164-5.} He was Vicomte of the Bessin and in 1121 Vicomte also of the
Avranchin. He "held the new Cumbrian gains of the Norman house in a block
of land stretching from Stainmore west to the sea and from Carlisle south
to the Derwent" prior to his accession to the earldom of Chester {-"The
Northerners," J. C. Holt (Oxford: Clarendon, 1961), p. 214}. He is buried
in St. Werburg at Chester, England.

Ranulph married on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: de Clare, Richard Fitz Gilbert Earl of Hertford. Richard (son of Clare, Gilbert de Earl Clare of Tunbridge and Clermont, Adelaide de) died on 15 Apr 1136 in near Abergavenny; was buried in Gloucester. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Earl of Hertford

Notes:

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Roger "was constantly fighting the Welsh for his family possessions in
Wales and quarreled with Becket over Tunbridge castle" {Encycl.Brit.,
1956, 5:755}. He is known as "the Good Earl."

Family/Spouse: Hilary, Maud St.. Maud (daughter of De St.hilaire, James de Harcourt and Aveline) died in 1173. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]