Geva d' Avranches , Heiress of Drayton 
Geva d' was born about 1076 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England. Geva d''s father was Earl Hugh of Chester Avranches and her mother was Various Mistresses. Her paternal grandparents were Visc Richard Goz of Avranches and Emme of Conteville. She had a brother and two sisters, named Robert I, Maud or Matilda 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 herfather 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 beenlegitimate, she would surely have succeeded to the earldom before heraunt. [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.~ 0937 in Tillierses, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0963 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0989 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0998 in AvranCheshire, Normandy, France d.> 1084
- b.~ 0994 in , Kent, England.
- b.~ 1050 in AvranCheshire, Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1101 in Cheshire, Ches, England.
- b.ABT 0933/0940 in ,Flandres, Belgium d.1 Jan 0961/0962
- b.~ 0959 in Conteville, , France
- b.~ 0958 in Bourgogne, France d.25 May 1008
- b.~ 1001 in Conteville, Normandy, France d.~ 1066
- b.~ 1029 in Conteville,Normandy, France d. in France
- b.~ 0978 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1003 in Falaise, Normandy, France d.~ 1050
- b.~ 0980 in Falaise, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1076 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1050 in France
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Geva d' were married in a religious ceremony about 1096 in Witering, England.
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