Amicia le Meschin 
Amicia le was born about 1169 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales. Amicia le's father was Renaud I Seigneur de Roucy , Count of Rheims and her mother was Alberade de Lorraine. Her paternal grandparents were Herbert II Count of Troyes & Vermandois and Liegarde Princess of France; her maternal grandparents were Giselbert I Duke of Lorraine and Gerberga of Saxony. She had a brother and two sisters, named Giselbert Seigneur de, Ermentrude de and Gerberge de. She was the youngest of the four children. She died in Chester, Cheshire, England.General Notes
The earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely, Amicia,* m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, "a person," says Dugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, of Over Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be a dau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in his Antiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot but mislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave to Mainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl of Chester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then must he be descended from a co-heir to the Earl of Chester; but he was not; for the co-heirs of Earl Hugh married four of the greatest peers in the kingdom."
* Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper war between Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventually the matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, "at an assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by the justices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the matter to Mainwaring." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 365-6, Meschines, Earls of Chester]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0840 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.0902 in Vermandois, Normandy, France (murdered)
- b.0885 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.23 FEB 942/43 in St Quentin, France
- b.~ 0850 in Morvois, France
- b.0931 in Roucy, Marne, Champagne, France d.15 MAR 972/73 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France
- b.0820 in of Anjou, Blois, Tours, Auxerre, Nevers, France d.15 Sep 0866 in Brissarthe, Anjou, France (slain by Northmen of Normandy)
- b.0866 in Bourgogne, France d.15 Jun 0923 in Soissons, France
- b.~ 0819 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France d.~ 0886
- b.~ 0890 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.0931 in France
- b.0870 in France d.< 0894
- b.~ 1169 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales d. in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 0850 in Lorraine, France d.>25 Oct 0915
- b.0890 in Lorraine, France d.02 Oct 0939 in Andernach, Rhineland, Prussia
- b.0865 in France
- b.0930 in Lorraine, France d.13 MAR 972/73
- b.~ 0836 in Saxony, Germany d.30 Nov 0912
- b.~ 0876 in Saxony, Germany d.02 Jul 0936 in Membleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.~ 0860 in Germany d.14 Dec 0903
- b.0913 in Nordhausen, Saxony, Prussia d.05 May 0984 in Rheims, Marne, France
- b.0853 in Ringleheim, Goslar, Hannover, Germany
- b.~ 0890 in Ringleheim, Goslar, Hannover, Germany d.14 MAR 967/68 in Membleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.0858 in of Friesland, Germany
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They had a son and a daughter, named Roger de and Bertrade (Bertred) de.
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Children
Bertrade (Bertred) de Mainwaring
Bertrade (Bertred) de was born about 1196 in Mainwaring, Bersted, Sussex, England. She died after 1249 in Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire, England.
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