Earl Ranulph ("de Briquessart") de Meschines III of Chester 
Ranulph, known as "de Briquessart", was born in Briquessart, Livry, France. "de Briquessart"'s father was Ranulf de Meschines and his mother is Maud d'Avranches. His paternal grandparents are Viscount Ranulph de Bayeux II and Alice Normandy; his maternal grandfather was Vicomte Richard ("le Goz") d'Avranches and his maternal grandmother is Emma de Conteville. He had two sisters named Agnes and Helga. He had two half-brothers named Robert and John. He died in Chester, Cheshire, England. He was buried in St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England.General Notes
Earl of Chester
3rd Earl of Chester
Note: Ranulf or Randle de Meschines, surnamed de Bricasard, Viscount Bayeux, in Normandy, (son of Ralph de Meschines, by Maud, his wife, co-heir of her brother, Hugh Lupus, the celebrated Earl of Chester), was given by King Henry I the Earldom of Chester, at the decease of his 1st cousin, Richard de Abrincis, 2nd Earl of Chester, of that family, without issue. By some historians, this nobleman is styled Earl of Carlisle, from residing in that city; and they further state that he came over in the train of the Conqueror, assisted in the subjugation of England, and shared, of course, in the spoil of conquest. He was lord of Cumberland and Carlisle, by descent from his father, but having enfeoffed his two brothers, William, of Coupland, and Geffrey, of Gillesland, in a large portion thereof, he exchanged the Earldom of Cumberland for that of Chester, on condition that those whom he had settled there should hold their lands of the king, in capite. His lordship m. Lucia, widow of Roger de Romara, Earl of Lincoln, and dau. of Algar, the Saxon, Earl of Mercia, and had issue, Ranulph, his successor; William, styled Earl of Cambridge, but of his issue nothing in known; Adeliza, m. to Richard Fitz-Gilbert, ancestor of the old Earls of Clare; and Agnes, m. to Robert de Grentemaisnil. The earl d. in 1128 and was s. by his elder son, Ranulph de Meschines. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages,. Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 365, Meschines, Earls of Chester]
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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.0885
- b.ABT 0930/0960 in Bayeux, Calvados, France
- b.~ 0991 in Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France d.> 1031
- b.ABT 0934/0960 in Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1017 in Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, FR
- b.ABT 1025/1050 in Normandy, France d.1129
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Fecamp, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, France
- b.ABT 0958/0963 in Normandie d.28 Aug 1026/1027 in Fâecamp, Normandie
- b.~ 0936 in Normandie, France d.1031 in France
- b.0997 d.06 Aug 1028
- b.0927/0955 in Bretagne, Rennes, France d.29 Jun 0992 in Brittany, France
- b.~ 0982 in Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandie, France
- b.~ 0952 in Anjou, France d.27 Jun 0992/1012
- b.~ 1021
- b.0939 in Paris, Isle de France, France d.24 Aug 0996 in Paris, Isle de France, France
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Melun, Isle De France, France
- b.~ 0952 in Germany d.1004
- b.1003 in Nevers, Nievre, France d.Jan 8 1079 or Jun 8 1078/9 in Monastere Ordre St. Benuist, Messines, France
- b.~ 0947 in Toulouse, France d.Sep 1037
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse d.25 Jul 1032 in Melun, France
- b.~ 0945 in Anjou, France
- b.ABT 1060/1070 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.Jan 1128/1129 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.ABT 0935/0937 in Tillieres, Normandy, France d.0978
- b.ABT 0963/0970 in Normandy, France d.1035
- b.~ 0942 in Tillieres, Normandy, France
- b.ABT 0989/1000 in Normandy, France d.> 1041
- b.ABT 1025/1040 in Avranches, Normandy, France d.1066/1082
- b.ABT 0994/1004 in Normandy, France
- b.ABT 1033/1054 in Avranches, Normandy, France
- b.0925/0930 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France
- b.ABT 0969/0971 in Conteville, Normandie, France d.ABT 1012/1087
- b.~ 1001 in Conteville, Lorraine, France d.1066
- b.~ 0974 in Mellent, Normandy, France
- b.ABT 1031/1043 in Conteville, France
- b.0945 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden d.29 Sep 1027 in Roskilde, Denmark
- b.~ 0978 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.~ 1078 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.ABT 1003/1012 in Falaise, Normandy d.1050
- b.~ 0945
- b.ABT 0974/0980 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.~ 1080 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
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"de Briquessart" and Lucy were married in a religious ceremony about 1097 in England. They had two sons and a daughter, named Ranulph, William and Adeliza.
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Children
Adeliza de Meschines of Chester
Adeliza was born about 1094 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. She died in 1128.
Ranulph des Gernons
Ranulph was born in 1099 in Castle, Gernon, Normandy, France. He died at the age of 54 on December 16th, 1153 in England. He was buried in St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England.
Earl William de Meschines of Cambridge
William was born in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France. He died in 1096 in Gernon Castle, Normandy, France.
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