Ranulph des Gernons IV Earl of Chester 
Ranulph des Gernons IV Earl of was born in 1100 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France. Ranulph des Gernons IV Earl of's father was Ranulph III le Meschines Earl of Chester and his mother was Lucy Taillebois Countess of Chester. His paternal grandparents were Ranulph II Vicount of Bayeaux and Maud Margaret d'Avranches; his maternal grandparents were Ivo FitzRichard De Taillebois Baron Kendal and Lucy of Mercia. He had a brother and a sister, named William Le Meschines Lord of and Adeliza. He was the youngest of the three children. He died at the age of 53 on December 16th, 1153.General Notes
Ranulph or Randle II, 4th Earl of Chester, surnamed Gernouns, because he was born at Gernon Castle in Normandy, succeeded his father in the Earldom of Chester and in all his patrimony, both in England and Normandy. This nobleman was a leading military character, and took an active part with the Empress Maud and Prince Henry, her son, against King Stephen. Later Ranulph II became reconciled with Stephen. He came to the King and desired pardon for his rebellion at Lincoln and for seizing his sovereign's possessions and thereupon was received into favour. In further testimony he helped the king's forces and gallantly assaulted the town of Bedford, and delivered it into Stephen's hands. But for all this friendship, Randle was suspected of Stephen because he surrendered not the castles and rents which he had taken, and because of the Earl's wavering and unstable mind, so that neither the king nor his prime councillors durst rely on him. Seeing himself suspected of treason he later turned against Stephen. He died Dec. 16, 1153, distrusted by both sides and supposed to have been poisoned by his wife and William Peveral of Nottingham. Maud, his widow, died July 29, 1189. She was daughter of Robert, son of Henry I.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0972 in Bayerex, Calvados, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.1007 in Bayeaux, Calvados, Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.0970 d.UNKNOWN
- b.0996 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1025 in Normandy, France d.1092
- b.0963 in Normandy, France d.1026 in Fecamp, Seine Inferieure, France
- b.0997 d.06 Aug 1028
- b.0966 in Brittany, France d.1017 in Normandy, France
- b.1021 in Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.1060 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.1128 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.0937 in Tillieres, Normandy, France d.0978
- b.0963 in Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.0942 in Tillieres, Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.0989 in Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.1033 d.1089
- b.0994 in Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.1100 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France d.16 Dec 1153
- b.0904 d.0961
- b.0930 d.21 Jul 0987
- b.0913 d.0952
- b.0970 d.1040
- b.0900 d.0967
- b.0934 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.0985
- b.0914 d.19 Aug 0967
- b.1022 in Yorkshire, England d.1072
- b.0998 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1054 in Mercia, England d.1136
- b.0950 d.UNKNOWN
- b.0972 d.31 Aug 1057
- b.0950 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1002 in Mercia, England d.1093
- b.0955 d.UNKNOWN
- b.0980 d.1074
- b.1060 in Mercia, England d.UNKNOWN
- b.0944 d.0975
- b.0968 in Wessex, England d.23 Apr 1016
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- b.1017 d.1098
- b.0942 d.UNKNOWN
- b.0982 d.UNKNOWN
- b.0964 d.UNKNOWN
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They had a son named Hugh de Keveliock V Earl of.
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Children
Hugh de Keveliock V Earl of Chester
Hugh de Keveliock V Earl of was born in 1122 in Kevelioc, Monmouth, Wales. He died at the age of 59 on June 30th, 1181 in Leeke, Stafford, England.
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