Geva d' Avranches , Heiress of Drayton 
Geva d' was born about 1076 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England. Geva d''s father was Hugh "Lupus" d' Avranches , 1st Earl of Chester and her mother was Various Mistresses. Her paternal grandparents were Richard le Goz Viscount d' Avranches and Emma de Conteville. She had a brother and two sisters, named Robert I, Maud d' and Helga de. She was the youngest of the four children. She had a half-brother named Richard d'.General Notes
The legitimacy of this lady is maintained from the circumstances of her father having bestowed upon her the manor of Drayton, in free marriage, which the lawyers say could not be granted to a bastard; but had she been legitimate, she would surely have succeeded to the earldom before her aunt. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 1, Abrincis, Earl of Chester]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1008 in Avranches, Normandy, France d.> 1084
- b.~ 1047 in Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1101 in St Werburg's Abbey, Cheshire, England (as a monk)
- b.~ 1029 in Conteville, Eure, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.~ 1076 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England
- b.1050 in France
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