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Families covered: Meschines of Chester

Ranulph 'de Briquessart' de Meschines, Vicomte de Bayeux and d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester (b c1070, d 01.1128-9)
m. (c1097) Lucy (dau of either Algar, Earl of Mercia, or Thorold, Sheriff of Lincoln)
1. Ranulph 'de Gernons' de Meschines, 2nd Earl of Chester (b 1099, d 16.12.1153)
  m. (1141) Maud FitzRobert (d 29.07.1189, dau of Robert of Caen, 1st Earl of Gloucester)
  A. Hugh 'de Keveliok' de Meschines, 3rd Earl of Chester (b 1147, d 1181)
  m. (1169) Bertrade de Montfort (b c1152, d 1227 or 12.07.1189, dau of Simon de Montfort 'le chauve', Count of Evreux)
  i. Ranulph 'de Blundeville' de Meschines, 4th Earl of Chester (Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond) (b c1172, dsp 28.10.1232)
  m1. (1188, div 1199) Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b 1161, d 05.09.1201, dau of Conon IV, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond)
  m2. (before 07.10.1200) Clementia / Clemence (d 1252, dau of William de Fougeres)
ii. Maud de Meschines
GJRSY
  m. (26.08.1190) David 'Etherington', Earl of Huntingdon (b c1144, 17.06.1219)
GJRSY
  iii. Mabel de Meschines
HJY
  m. William de Albini, Earl of Arundel and Sussex
HJY
  iv. Agnes de Meschines (d 02.11.1246-7)
HY
  m. (1192) William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby (d 22.09.1246-7)
HY
  v. Hawise de Meschines
Y
  m1. Robert de Quincy (dvp)
Y
  m2. Sir Warren Bostock of Bostock
  possibly by partner unknown
vi. Amicia de Meschines
..
  m. Ralph de Mesnilwarin (justice of Chester)
..
  B. Richard de Meschines
  C. Beatrix de Meschines
  m. Ralph ap Eynion, lord of Malpas
  i. Margaret de Malpas
  m. David le Clerke de Malpas
  D. Joanna de Meschines (b c1145)
  m. Adam le Brus, Lord of Skelton (b c1143, d 1196)
2. William de Meschines of Copeland (b c1100)
  m. (c1125) Cecily de Rumilly (b c1100, dau of Robert de Rumilly of Harewood and Skipton)
  A. Maud/Matilda de Meschines (b c1126, d after 1190)
HJY
  m1. Phillip (Guillaume) de Belmeis (b c1110)
  i.+ 2 sons - Philip (dsp), Ranulph (dsp)
iii. Adeliz de Belmeis
  m. Alan la Zouche
  m2. Hugh de Mortimer, lord of Wigmore (b 1108, d before 1181)
HJY
  B. Avice or Amice de Meschines of Rumilli
  m1. William de Curcy
  m2. William Paynel of Les Moutiers-Hubert, Hambye and Drax (d before 1148)
  C. Alice de Meschines, Lady of Skipton
  m1. William FitzDuncan (d 1154)
  m2. Alexander FitzGerold
3. Adeliza/Alice de Meschines (b 1188/94, d 1128)
HJRY
  m. Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Hertford (b 1084-90, d 1139 or 15.04.1136)
HJRY
4. Agnes de Meschines
  m. Robert de Grentemaisnil (Grandmesnil) (d(sp?) 1136)

Main sources: BE1883 (Meschines of Chester), 'Mathematical', with some support on the Earls from TCP (Chester)
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