CHESTER - Norman Time Line 1066 - 1154
| Previous Time Line | |
| 1071-1101 | Death of Gherbod - Hugh of Avranches (Lupus) EARL OF CHESTER |
| Under the Normans Chester increased considerably in importance, and after the Conquest, the Earldom of Chester (county) was conferred on Georbodus, a nobleman of Flanders, who, however, never took possession of his territory, and returning to the Continent, died soon after, upon which the dignity was bestowed by the Conqueror, in 1070. upon his half-sister's son, Hugh de Abrincis (or Avranches), surnamed Lupus. who had his residence and held his courts and parliaments here, to which he summoned the barons and landowners of the shire; this powerful and wealthy noble eventually died as a monk in the abbey of St. Werburgh, at Chester, 27 July, 1101: | |
| 1086 | Domesday Survey carried out |
| 1087 | Death of William I ; accession of William II Rufus |
| 1093 | Anselm appointed Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1093-1116 | Richard of Bec ABBOT OF CHESTER |
| 1100 | Death of William Rufus; accession of Henry I |
| 1101-1120 | Richard EARL OF CHESTER |
| 1121-1129 | Ranulph le Meschin EARL OF CHESTERon the death of Richard, the 2nd earl, the male line became extinct, the earldom |
| passed to his 1st cousin, Ranulph de Meschines, son of Ralph de Meschines, who had married Maud de Abrincis, sister of Earl Hugh Lupus | |
| 1129-1153 | Ranulph de Gernon ( Ranulph II ) EARL OF CHESTER: |
| 1121-1140 | William ABBOT OF CHESTER |
| 1141-1157 | Ralph ABBOT OF CHESTER |
| 1153-1181 | Hugh II of Kevelioc EARL OF CHESTER |
|
THE NORMAN EARLS OF CHESTER On the accession William the Conqueror, created his nephew Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, at the same time investing him with supreme authority throughout the county and city, so that he held as absolute a regal sway within those limits as the king himself had in his dominions. For one hundred and sixty years did Hugh Lupus and his successors, the seven Norman Earls of Chester, exercise their petty sovereignty over the city and county, until the death of Earl John Scot, in 1237, when Henry III. took the earldom , with all the powers annexed to it, into his own hands ; and from that period to the present it has been held by the English Crown The title of Earl of Chester was conferred by Henry upon his eldest son, afterwards Ed ward I. It has ever since been vested in the reigning monarch's eldest son, and is now enjoyed by his Royal highness, Albert, Prince of Wales, the hopeful heir of our beloved Queen.
|
||||||||||||||||
Ranulph or Ralph de Meschines, 4th earl of Chester of this family, and surnamed Blundevil, died at Wallingford
