General Notes

!Appointed by the Conqueror to be Earl of Chester after Gherbod the Fleming departed for Flanders.  Hugh was a nephew of the Conqueror.  To Hugh the Conqueror delegated a fullness of power, making this a county palatine, and giving it a sovereign jurisdiction.  Any offense against "the Sword of Chester" was as cognisable as the like offense against the dignity of the British crown. Lupus created 8 barons, who were obliged to attend him at his court in peace, and to follow him in war with knights, esquires, horses, and men.  Their names
were:
1.  Nigel, Baron of Halton;
2. Robert of Montalt;
3. William Malbeding of Nantwich;
4. Vernon of Shipbrooke;
5. Fitz Hugh of Malpas;
6. Hamon de Massie;
7. Venables de Kinderton;
8. Nicholas de Stockport.
This species of government continues 171 years, when on the death of John le Scot, 7th earl of the Norman line, Henry III annexed the earldom to the Crown. Obit. 1101. [The Bruces and the Cumyns, pp. 512-13]

WAITE, NEWLIN LINES - 27th ggrandfather

Son of Richard d'Avranches and Emma de Conteville; m. Hermentrude de Clermont; father of Robert, Philippe, Richard, Othewell, and Giva. [Falaise Roll, Table III]

Hugh and Richard, first and second earls of Chester of the Norman line, were hereditary vicomtes of the Avranchin, dept. Manche, and their lands lay in that district, though it is not possible to point to a particular place as their original home. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 28]

One of his daus. m. Guillaume de la Mare or Fitz Norman. Hugh, surnamed Lupus, whose domains in England were tremendous. He possessed nearly the whole county of Chester, of which he was created palatine count (earl), which made him almost as powerful as a king. He m. Ermentrude, dau. of Hugh, comte de Clarmont by his wife Margaret de Rouci, and had one son, Richard, who succeeded him in the earldom at the age of 7 years. [Falaise Roll, p. 44, 80]

Kinsman of William the Conqueror; also known as Hugh the Fat of Avranches. Given the important county of Chester to guard against Welsh encroachment. [A History of Wales, p. 104]

Accompanied his cousin Robert de Rhuddlan (son of Umfrid) to England after the battle of Senlac accordint to Orderic Vital. An entry in the cartulary of the abbey of Whitby, quoted by Dugdale, states that Hugh, earl of Chester, and William de Percy, his sworn companion-in-arms, came into England with William the Conqueror in 1067. [Falaise Roll, p. 130]

In 1086 Walter de Dol was an under-tenant of Hugh earl of Chester in Norfolk and Suffolk. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 38]

Earl Hugh placed his castle at Caernarfon at the wat'er edge, on the peninsula formed by the estuary of the Seiont, the Menai Strait and the Cadnant brook. [Caernarfon Castle, p. 5]

King William had the castle of Chester built in 1070 and granted the earldom, which was to include the Dee valley, to Hugh of Avranches, known as Hugh the Fat (d. 1101). Earl Hugh's deputy, Robert, had soon established a base with an earth and timber castle at Rhuddlan, and his forces penetrated along the coastal strip of North Wales towards Anglesey, building castles as they went. But in 1094, the Welsh united against the common enemy and inflicted a series of major defeats on the Normans. [Flint Castle/Ewloe Castle, pp. 4-5]

m. Ermentrude Cleremont; father of Maud d'Averanch who m. Baron Harold Sudeley. [WFT Vol 1 Ped 986]

Father of Geva d'Avranches who m. Geoffrey Riddle. [WFT Vol 6]

Hugh Lupus, William of Normandy's nephew, was made Earl of Chester, and presided over his domain for 40 years--one of the Marcher lords who ruled this borderland like sub-contracted monarchs for centuries after the Conquest. ["Welcome in the Hillsides by Brian Bailey, REALM, Nov/Dec 1998, p. 44-51]

Earl of Chester; son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranchin and a kinswoman of William the Conqueror; m. Ermengard of Clermont; father of:
1. Richard
2. Geva who m. Geoffrey Ridel
3+ numerous bastard children
[Todd A. Farmerie <taf2@po.cwru.edu]

The presence of the Roman fort was of enormous strategic importance which the Normans in 1090 were able to put to forceful effect through their fortification was not raised on the site of Segontium itself but on that of the present Caernarfon Castle. The Norman fort was built by Hugh Lupus, earl of Chester, who in 1067 had been given land on the Welsh borders by William the Conqueror, with the aim of extending territorial power westwards. Within 25 years of the appearance of the motte-and-baily at Caernarfon, the Normans lost their grip on North Wales, adn their strongholds were claimed by the princes of Gwynedd.
   Hugh's mound at Caernarfon became the centre of the maerdref, and was still in evidence when in 1283 Edward embarked on his ambitious enterprise in what the biographer of Gruffudd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd, had described as 'the old city of the Emperor Constantine, son of Constans the Great'. [The Castles of Wales, p. 49]

b. 1054, d. 1101; son of Richard de Gernon and Emma de Conteville; m. Ermentrude de Clermont; father of:
1. Robert Fitz Hugh (may be OOW0
2. Mavila who m. William FitzNorman de la Mare
2. Geva who m. Geoffrey Ridel
3. Maud who m. Harold de Ewyas
4. Robert
5. Philippe
6. Othewell
7. Richard who m. Matilda de Blois
[Thomas Mebane LeGrande <t.legrande@worldnet.att.net, 3 Mar 2003]

d. as a monk at St Werburg's Abbey, Cheshire, England. [Robert Lord <rlord333@aol.com, 23 Feb 2003]

[inglis family.and Keith .4FBK.ged.FBK.FBK.FBK.FTW]
Hugh was Earl of Chester,and with Hugh de Montgomerie, Earl of
Shrewsbury, united his forces in resisting the inroads of the Welsh into
England.