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in our Database | |  | | | 3RD EARL OF CHESTER
Hugh De Kevelioc Sex: Male | | | |  | | Birth Date | 1147 | | Death Date | 1181 | | Father | Ranulph IV de Meschines 2nd/4th Earl of Chester | Born: 1100 Castle Gernon or Capelle-les-Grands, Eure, Upper Normandy, France | Died: 1153 | | Mother | Maud of Gloucester | Born: 1120 | Died: 1189 | | Hugh De Kevelioc
Notes: | HUGH "of Kevelioc" (Kevelioc, co. Monmouth 1147-Leek, Staffordshire 30 Jun 1181, bur Chester, Abbey of St Werburgh). Robert of Torigny names "Hugonem filium suum" as successor of "Ranulfus comes Cestriæ"[93]. He succeeded his father in 1153 as Earl of Chester, Vicomte dAvranches, as a minor coming of age in 1158. "Hugo comes Cestrie" confirmed a donation of land in Thoresby donated by "Willelmus filius Othuer" to Greenfield priory, Lincolnshire, for the soul of "patris mei Randulfi", by charter dated to [1155] witnessed by "Matilla matre sua…"[94]. He joined the rebellion of Henry "the Young King" against Henry II King of England and was taken prisoner at Alnwick 13 Jul 1174. He was deprived of the earldom but restored in Jan 1177[95]. A manuscript narrating the descent of Hugh Earl of Chester to Alice Ctss of Lincoln records the death “II Kal Jul” of “Hugo”, son of “Ranulfus de Gernons”, and his burial at St Werburgh´s, Chester[96]. m (1169) BERTRADE de Montfort, daughter of SIMON de Montfort Comte dEvreux & his wife Mahaut --- ([1155]-1227). Robert of Torigny records the marriage arranged by Henry II King of England in 1170 of "Hugoni comiti Cestriæ cognate suo" and "filiam comitis Ebroicensis cognatam suam ex parte patris sui"[97]. The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records property “Beltesford et Hemmingebi et Dunintone” held by “Bertia comitissa, filia comitis de Evereros, uxor Hugonis comitis Cestrie”[98]. The Annals of Burton record the death in 1227 of “Bertrudis comitissa Cestriæ”[99]. Earl Hugh & his wife had six children:
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