Amicia le Meschin 
Amicia le was born about 1169 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales. Amicia le's father was Hugh de Kevelioc , 5th Earl of Chester and her mother was Bertrade de Montfort. Her paternal grandparents were Ranulph de Gernon , 4th Earl of Chester and Maud FitzRobert de Caen; her maternal grandparents were Simon III Chauve de Montfort , Count d'Evereux and Maud Countess of Evereux. She had a brother and five sisters, named Ranulf de, Maud of, Agnes of, Mabel of, Beatrix le and Hawise le. She was the oldest of the seven 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.~ 1017 in Bayeux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1050 in Bayeux, Normandy, France d.>Apr 1089 in Lord of Cumberland & Carlisle, England
- b.~ 1021 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1070 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.JAN 1128/29 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1008 in Avranches, Normandy, France d.> 1084
- b.~ 1054 in Avranches, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1029 in Conteville, Eure, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.~ 1100 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France d.16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England (poisoned)
- b.~ 1015 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England (Mercia) d.< 1079 in Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1070 in Crowland & Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1130
- b.~ 1045 in Graville, Normandy, France
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leeke, Staffordshire, England
- b.1068 in Selby, West Ride Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1070 in England & France
- b.~ 1117 in Gloucestershire, England. d.29 Jul 1189
- b.~ 1055 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 MAR 1106/07 in At the battle of Falaise
- b.~ 1094 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1022 in St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France d.>27 Jul 1094 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (clothed as a monk)
- b.1060 in St Germain, Normandy, France
- b.1026 in Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France d.02 Dec 1079 in Bures Castle, Eure, Normandy, France (murdered)
- b.~ 1169 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales d. in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 0993 in Evreux, Normandy, France d.AFT 4 FEB 1052/53 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1025 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.~ 1087
- b.~ 1001 in Ile de France, France
- b.~ 1070 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.1124
- b.~ 1040 in Evreux, Normandy, France
- b.1117 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.13 MAR 1180/81 in France
- b.~ 1069 in Garlende, France d.1118
- b.~ 1090 in Garlende, France d.1181
- b.1037 in Montlhery, Seine-et-Oise, France d.1116
- b.~ 1073 in Montlhery, France d. in Rochfort, France
- b.~ 1048 in Coreil, Marne, France
- b.1155 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d.12 Jul 1227 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1126 in Monmouth Castle, Gloucestershire, England d.~ 1164
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