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Female Countess of Chester Lucia Taillebois Click to view Countess of Chester Lucia Taillebois in the family tree

Lucia was born in 1074 in Kendal Castle, Westmoreland, Cumbria, England.1   Lucia's father was 1st Baron of Kendal Ivo FitzRichard de Rounmare Taillebois and her mother was Lucy Beatrice of Mercia.  Her paternal grandparents were Richard FitzGerold de Roumare and Beatrice de Taillebois; her maternal grandparents were Earl of Mercia, Earl of East Anglia Aelfgar (The Saxon) of Mercia III and Aelfgifu Saxe-Wessex. She had four brothers and three sisters, named Eldred, Robert, The Englishman, William, Beatrice, Adeliza and Matilda.  She was the second youngest of the eight children.  She died at the age of 62 in 1136.2 

Family Details of Lucia's family with Earl of Chester Ranulph (de Briquessart) de Meschines III

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=michaelrneuman&id=I010994
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I67254&style=TABLE

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