Amica De Meschines 
Amica was born about 1158 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales. Amica's father was Earl Hugh De Kevelioc De Meschines and her mother was Bertrade D'Evereaux De Montfort. Her paternal grandparents were Ranulph IV De Meschines De Gernons Earl of Chester and Maud Fitzrobert De Gloucester; her maternal grandparents were Simon III De Montfort Earl of Evereux and Amice De Beaumont. She had a brother and eight sisters, named Randolph Chester, Helga De, Beatrix De, Maud, Agnes De, Mabel, Daughter De, Hawise and Nichola De. She was the second oldest of the ten children. She had a half-sister named Tanghurst Of.General Notes
The earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely,Amicia,* m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, "a person," saysDugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, ofOver Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be adau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in hisAntiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot butmislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave toMainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl ofChester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then musthe 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 thekingdom."
* Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper warbetween Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventmacllythe matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, "atan assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by thejustices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of thematter to Mainwaring." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages,Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 365-6, Meschines, Earls ofChester]
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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.~ 1017 in Bayeux, Normandy, France d.1057
- b.~ 1050 in Normandy, France d.>Apr 1089
- b.~ 1021 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1070 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.Jan 1128/1129 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1025 in Avranches, Normandy, France d.> 1082
- b.~ 1054 in Normandy, France d.> 1084
- b.BET 1029 AND 1033 in Conteville, France
- b.< 1100 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France d.16 Dec 1153 in England
- b.1070 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d.1136
- b.~ 1147 in Kevekioc, Monmouthshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leeke, Staffordshire, England
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.BET 9 AND 10 SEP 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.~Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis, Seine-St. Denis, France
- b.~ 1032 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1089 in Alcester, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1077 in Caen, Calvados, France d.> 1157
- b.~ 1120 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d.29 Jul 1189 in Chester, England
- b.1006 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1050 in East Chester, England d.10 Mar 1106/1107 in England
- b.~ 1094 in Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1022 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England d.27 Jul 1094 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.~ 1062 in Montgomery, Montgomery, Wales
- b.BET 1014 AND 1015 in Alencon, Eure, France d.02 Dec 1079 in Chateau de Bures-sur-Dives, France
- b.~ 1158 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales
- b.~ 1070 in Montfort Amaury, Ile De France, France d.18 Apr 1137
- b.BET 1117 AND 1121 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, France d.12 Mar 1180/1181
- b.~ 1095 in Garlende, France d.~ 1143
- b.~ 1155 in Chester, England d.12 Jul 1189 in Evreux , Eure, France
- b.1046 in Pont-Audemer, Beaumont, Normandy d.05 Jun 1118 in Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1104 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.05 Apr 1168 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1081 in Valois, Bretagne, France d.13 Feb 1130/1131 in England
- b.BET 1121 AND 1130 in Leicestershire, England d.31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo Provence, West Albania
- b.~ 1078 in Montfort, Normandy, France d.1143
- b.BET 1100 AND 1108 in Norfolk, England d.~ 1168
- b.1075
- b.~ 1126 in France d.03 Sep 1215
- b.~ 1052 in Grentemesnil, Calvados, France d.1122
- b.~ 1092 in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England d.10 Feb 1197/1198
- b.~ 1072
- b.~ 1149 d.01 Apr 1212 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1040 in Estouteville-Ecales, Normandie, France d.~ 1090 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1105 in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England d.11 Jul 1191 in Reims, France
- b.~ 1035 in Beaumont, Sur-Risle, France d.11 Jul 1091 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, France
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Amica and Rafe were married in a religious ceremony in 1179 in Warmingham, Cheshire, England. They had a son and a daughter, named Roger De and Bertrada.
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