Person:Ranulf de Gernon (1)
Ranulph de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester
b.Bet 1099 and 1100 Normandie, France
d.16 Dec 1153 Chester, Cheshire, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. Est 1085
  1. Alice de MeschinesAbt 1086 - 1128
  2. Agnes Le MeschinAbt 1097 -
  3. Ranulph de Gernon, 4th Earl of ChesterBet 1099 & 1100 - 1153
  4. William de Saint PierreAbt 1103 -
Spouse and Children
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m. Abt 1141
  1. Richard de Meschines
  2. Joanna De MeschinesAbt 1145 - 1196
  3. Beatrix de Gernons1146 -
  4. Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester1147 - 1181
  5. Alice de MeschinesAbt 1152 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Ranulph de Gernon, 4th Earl of ChesterBet 1099 & 1100 - 1153
m. 1141
  1. Lucy _____, Prioress of St. Mary's of Chester
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Facts and Events
Name Ranulph de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester
Alt Name Ranulf de Meschines
Alt Name[11] Ranulph de Gernon
Alt Name _____ Ranulph Le Maschines-Guernan Earl Chester, IV
Gender Male
Birth[12] Bet 1099 and 1100 Normandie, FranceGuernon Castle, Normandy
Marriage Abt 1141 Gloucestershire, Englandto Maud FitzRobert, of Gloucester
Marriage 1141 to Unknown
Death[11] 16 Dec 1153 Chester, Cheshire, England
Alt Death[12] 1155
Burial? Cheshire, EnglandBuried At St. Werburg's
Reference Number? Q716921?


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Ranulf II (also known as Ranulf de Gernon), 4th Earl of Chester (1099–1153), was an Anglo-Norman baron who inherited the honour of the palatine county of Chester upon the death of his father Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester. He was descended from the Counts of Bessin in Normandy.

In 1136 David I of Scotland invaded England as far as Durham, which led Stephen of England to negotiate treaties that involved granting Ranulf's lands to Scotland. Thereafter, Ranulf allied himself to Matilda to further his cause. He took Lincoln Castle in 1141, which was retaken by Stephen in a siege in which Ranulf was forced to flee for his life. Ranulf enlisted the help of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester to retake the castle and succeeded when King Stephen surrendered to him at Lincoln. While Matilda ruled England, Stephen's queen Matilda of Boulogne managed to defeat Ranulf and his allies at Winchester, which eventually resulted in Stephen being able to resume the throne.

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References
  1.   Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Complete Peerage vol 4 Cht 4, vol 7 p. 673-77, vol 3 p. 166, vol 5 Cht p.736 (GS #942 D24c).
  3.   Nichols' Leics vol 1 pt 1 p. 18, 67 (GS #Q942.54 H2nic).
  4.   Plantagenet Ancestry p. 94-95, 135, 140 (GS #Q942 D2t).
  5.   Rylands, J. Paul. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 ... (London, 1882)
    p. 18.
  6.   Wurts' Magna Charta vol 3 p. 422, vol 6 p. 1757-58 (GS #942 D22w).
  7.   Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882)
    Vol.1, pp.20-25.
  8.   Cheshire Pipe Rolls p. 3, 5, 23 (GS #942.7 B4Lc).
  9.   Baker's Nrthmp vol 1 p. 121 (GS #Q942.55 H2ba).
  10.   A Memoir on the Cheshire Domesday Roll, in Ormerod, George. Parentalia. Genealogical memoirs. (not published, 1851)
    pp.8-9.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Hansen, Charles M. The Barons of Woodhull: with Observations on the Ancestry of George Elkinton, Emigrant to New Jersey. The Genealogist. (1987).
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages (London: Burke's Peerage, 1883; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1985)
    pg. 365.
  13.   Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  14.   RANULF "de Gernon", son of RANULF Vicomte du Bessin "le Meschin" & his wife Lucy --- (Château de Gernon, Normandy before 1100-[murdered 16 Dec 1153, bur Chester, Abbey of St Werburgh).], in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
  15.   Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
    Volume 3 pages 166 and 167.
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