General Notes

Randle I, surnamed Micines or Meschines, Viscount Bayeux in Normandy, and Earl of Cumberland and Lord of Carlisle, obtained the Earldom of Chester from Henry I, King of England, with all the patrimony thereof as next heir to that deceased nobleman, Richard 2nd, Earl of Chester, his cousin (son of his mother's brother Hugh, 1st Earl of Chester), who was drowned crossing the English Channel and died sine prole. Randle restored to King Henry all the land which he had by his wife, the widow of Roger de Romara, for the Earldom of Chester. He married Lucy, Granddaughter of Algar, Earl of Mercia, and great-granddaughter of Lady Godiva of Coventry. Lucy had married 1st Ivo, son of Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou, and brother of Fulk, King of Jerusalem. 2nd, Roger de Romara, by whom she had William, Earl of Lincoln. Thus Randle was her 3rd husband. She with her two sons founded the Priory of nuns at Stikeswold in Lincolnshire. They also had a daughter Agnes who married Robert de Grentmaisnil and Adeliza, who married Richard de Clare and they were the grandparents of Richard de Clare, Surety for the Magna Charta, from whom you descend through Robert Abell and John Whitney. Randle I died 1128, after he had been Earl of Chester 8 years. Lucia, his widow, gave 266ú 13s 4d for the livery of her father's lands and also 500 marks fine that she might not be compelled to marry within 5 years. Her sister Agatha married Harold, King of England, slain at Hastings 1066.