General Notes

Randle I, surnamed Micines or Meschines, Viscount Bayeux in Normandy, and Earl of Cumberland and Lord of Carlisle, obtained the Earldom of Chester from Henry I, King of England, with all the patrimony thereof as nextheir to that deceased nobleman, Richard 2nd, Earl of Chester, his cousin(son of his mother's brother Hugh, 1st Earl of Chester), who was drownedcrossing the English Channel and died sine prole. Randle restored to KingHenry all the land which he had by his wife, the widow of Roger deRomara, for the Earldom of Chester. He married Lucy, Granddaughter ofAlgar, Earl of Mercia, and great-granddaughter of Lady Godiva ofCoventry. Lucy had married 1st Ivo, son of Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou, andbrother of Fulk, King of Jerusalem. 2nd, Roger de Romara, by whom she hadWilliam, Earl of Lincoln. Thus Randle was her 3rd husband. She with hertwo sons founded the Priory of nuns at Stikeswold in Lincolnshire. Theyalso had a daughter Agnes who married Robert de Grentmaisnil and Adeliza,who married Richard de Clare and they were the grandparents of Richard deClare, Surety for the Magna Charta, from whom you descend through RobertAbell and John Whitney. Randle I died 1128, after he had been Earl ofChester 8 years. Lucia, his widow, gave 266œ 13s 4d for the livery of herfather's lands and also 500 marks fine that she might not be compelled tomarry within 5 years. Her sister Agatha married Harold, King of England,slain at Hastings 1066.