Hugh De Meshines Kevelioc

• Preferred Name: Hugh De Meshines Kevelioc
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 30 JUN 1181 in Leek, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N3.1 LONG: E2.0167 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1147 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: GKY8-BXJ
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester (1147 – 1181), also written Hugh de Kevilioc, was an Anglo-French magnate who was active in England, Wales, Ireland and France during the reign of King Henry II of England.
  Born in 1147, he was the son of Ranulf II, 4th Earl of Chester, and his wife Maud, daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, who was an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England. A later tradition claims he was born in the Cyfeiliog district of Wales.
  On his father's death in 1153, he became heir to extensive estates. In France, these included the hereditary viscountcies of Avranches, Bessin, and Val de Vire, as well as the honours of St Sever and Briquessart. In England and Wales, he i herited the earldom of Chester with its associated honours. Together, they made him one of the most important Anglo-Norman landholders when he was declared of age in 1162 and took possession. He quickly took his place among King Henry II's magnates, being present at Dover in 1163 for the renewal of the Anglo-Flemish alliance and in 1164 at the Council of Clarendon.
  In 1173, however, he joined the revolt of the king's sons and led the rebels in Brittany. After sending an army of Brabantines, who forced the rebels to retreat into the castle of Dol, in August 1174 Henry arrived in person to lead the siege. Hugh and his companions, with no food left, surrendered after being promised no executions or mutilations. Held prisoner in various castles, he made his peace with Henry and was one of the witnesses of the Treaty of Falaise in October 1174 that ended hostilities.
  At the Council of Northampton in January 1177 his lands were restored, but not his castles, and in March he was a witness to Henry's arbitration between the kings of Castile and Navarre. Then in May, at the Council of Windsor, Henry restored his castles and ordered him to Ireland. There is no record of him gaining any military successes or grants of land there.
  
  He died on 30 June 1181 at Leek in Staffordshire and was buried beside his father on the south side of the chapter house of St Werburgh's Abbey in Chester, now Chester Cathedral. His successor was his only legitimate son.
  
  In 1169 he married Bertrade, daughter of Simon III de Montfort, Count of Évreux, who in turn was the son of Amaury III of Montfort. Their children were:
  1. Ranulf III, who became 6th Earl of Chester but died childless in 1232, when his four legitimate sisters became his heirs.
  2. Maud, who married David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon.
  3. Mabel, who married William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel.
  4. Agnes, who married William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby.
  5. Hawise, who married Robert II de Quincy.agan;
  
  By an unknown mistress (or mistresses),
  he also had two illegitimate sons,
  1. William (or Pain) (of Milton), and
  2. Roger,
  and one illegitimate daughter,
  3. Amice.
  
  During his lifetime, he granted some lands in the Wirral to the Abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester, and made other special gifts to Stanlow Priory, St Mary's, Coventry, and the nuns of Buffington and Greenfield priories. He also confirmed his mother's grants to her foundation of Augustinian canons at Calke, Derbyshire, and those of his father to his convent of the Benedictine nuns of St Mary's, Chester. In 1171 he confirmed the grants of his father to the Abbey of St. Stephen in the diocese of Bayeux. He likewise granted the church of Belchford, Lincolnshire to Trentham Priory, and the church of Combe, Gloucestershire to the Abbey of Bordesley, Warwickshire.
  
  HUGH, Earl of Chester, died at Leek, Staffordshire 30 June 1181, and was buried next to his father in the chapter house of St Werburgh's, Chester.
  
  Hugh, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade de Montfort:
  i. RANULPH, Knt., Earl of Chester, Vicomte of Avranches in Normandy, Judge in the King's Court, 1193, Constable of Sermilly Castle, 1201-4, Constable of the Tower of Avranches, 1203, Governor of the Peak Castle and Forest, 1215, Sheriff of Lancashire, 1216-22, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1216,1217-23, Steward of the Town and Honour of Lancaster, 1216-23, Constable of Fotheringay Castle, 1221-2, Steward of the Honour of Leicester, 1222, and, in right of his 1st wife, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, son and heir, born at Oswestry in Powys c.1172...
  ii. MAUD OF CHESTER, married DAVID OF SCOTLAND, Earl of Huntingdon [see BALLIOL 4].
  iii. MABEL OF CHESTER, married WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel [see CLIFTON 5].
  iv. AGNES OF CHESTER, married WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 4th Earl of Derby [see FERRERS 6].
  v. HAWISE OF CHESTER, Countess of Lincoln, married ROBERT DE QUINCY [see QUINCY 6.i].
  Child of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by an unknown mistress,
  vi. AMICE OF CHESTER, married RALPH DE MAINWARING, Seneschal of Chester [see AUDLEY 6].”
  
  Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester
  Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester
  
  Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester (1147 – 30 June 1181) was the son of Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester and Maud of Gloucester, daughter of Robert, 1st
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#AgnesChesterdied1247 as of 2/1/2016
  
  HUGH "of Kevelioc" (Kevelioc, co. Monmouth 1147-Leek, Staffordshire 30 Jun 1181, bur C
  
  Memorial
  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 Cestr
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
  William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon1
  M, #9227, d. circa 8 September 1217 Last Edited=11 May 2008
  William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon died circa 8 September 1217.
  William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon gained the title of Lord of the Isle of Wight [feudal baron].1 He was also known as William de Vernon.1 He gained the title of 5th Earl of Devon.
  Children of William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon and Mabile de Beaumont
  Mary de Vernon +
  Baldwin de Reviers + b. a 28 Apr 1200, d. 1 Sep 1216
  Citations
  [S37 ] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1122. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  
  === !TITLE:Earl of Chester
  TITLE:VISCOUNT D' ===
  !TITLE:Earl of Chester
  TITLE:VISCOUNT D'AVRANCHES
  
  Name Suffix: Earl of Chester
  REFN: HWS4804
  Ancestral File Number:V9TW-RR
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  Hugh, styled "OF KEVELIOC," EARL OF CHESTER, also VICOMTE D'AVRANCHES,&c., in Normandy, son and heir born at Kevelioc [?Machynlleth], co. Merioneth. He joined in the rebellion against King Henry II, set on foot by Henry, the son of that King, and was taken prisoner at Alnwick, 13July 1174. He was deprived of his Earldom, and was again in rebellion both in England and Normandy, but, in January 1177, was restored. He married, in 1169, Bertrade, then aged 14 (the King giving her away in marriage "because she was his own cousin "), daughter of Simon deMontfort, Count D'EVREUX by his 1st wife, Maud. He died at Leek, co. Stafford, 30 June 1181, aged about 34 and was buried at St. Werburg's,Chester. His widow died 1227, aged about 7I. [Complete Peerage III:167,XIV:170, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  This nobleman, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester, joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Lancaster and the King of Scots against King Henry II, and in support of that monarch's son, Prince Henry's pretensions to the crown. In which proceeding he was taken prisoner with the Earl of Leicester at Alnwick, but obtained his freedom soon afterwards upon the king's reconciliation with the young prince. Again,however, hoisting the standard of revolt both in England and Normandy,with as little success, he was again seized and then detained a prisoner for some years. He eventually, however, obtained his liberty and restoration of his lands when public tranquility became completely reestablished some time about the 23rd year of the king's reign. His lordship m. Bertred, dau. of Simon, Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and had issue, I. Ranulph, his successor; I. Maud, m. to David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of William, King of Scotland, and had one son and four daus., viz., 1. John, surnamed le Scot, who s. to the Earldom of Chester, d. s. p. 7 June, 1237; 1. Margaret, m. to Alan de Galloway, and had a dau., Devorguilla, m. to John de Baliol, and was mother of John de Baliol, declared King of Scotland in the reign of Edward I; 2. Isabel, m. to Robert de Brus, and was mother of Robert de Brus, who contended for the crown of Scotland, temp. Edward I; 3. Maud, d. unm.; Ada, m. to Henryde Hastings, one of the competitors for the Scottish crown, temp. EdwardI; II. Mabill, m. to William de Albini, Earl of Arundel; III. Agnes, m.to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; IV. Hawise, m. to Robert, son of Sayer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester.
  The Earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely, Amicia,* m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, "a person," says Dugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, of Over Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be a dau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in his Antiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot but mislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave to Mainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl ofChester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then must he be descended from a co-heir to the Earl of Chester; but he was not; for the co-heirs of Earl Hugh married four of the greatest peers in thekingdom."
  The earl d. at Leeke, in Staffordshire, in 1181, and was s. by his only son, Ranulph, surnamed Blundevil (or rather Blandevil) from the place o fhis birth, the town of Album Monasterium, modern Oswestry, in Powys), as 4th Earl of Chester.
  
  IO2255 Due to a typographical error in the Folger record(Herbert Folger, 1920), many mistakenly assumed that Hugh's wife, Ann, maiden name was Eaton and that her father was Francis Eaton. This is not true. per Calkins Record<Jan 2004, p 4
  
  === Founder of the Collegiate Church of Notr ===
  Founder of the Collegiate Church of Notre Dame.
  
  === He succeeded to the title of Vicomte d'A ===
  He succeeded to the title of Vicomte d'Avranches[Normandy] on 16 Dec 1153. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Earl of Cgester on 16 Dec 1153. He fought in the Battle of ALnwick on 13 July 1174, where he was taken prisoner by King HenryII. He was deprived of his Earldom, but was then restored in January 1177.
  
  has unkown daughter of Chester by unknown mother
  
  === Curt Hofemann, curt_hofeman@yahoo.com, ===
  Curt Hofemann, curt_hofeman@yahoo.com, wrote in a post-em: A charter for Daint-Pere of Chartres, which was passed befo re 1061, andprobably before 1053 , show that at the time th e family had then obtainedfull lordship of Vernon, togethe r with it s castle; and William of Vernonretained tis lords hip until after the Norman conquest, his las t recordedac t being in 1077 when he made a grant to the monestary of L e Bec. It israre indee d that the origin of a Norman terri torial family of the secondclass can be illustrated wit h t his particularity from the independentcharters of fou r religious houses. [Ref: Wm. the C., Do uglas, p87 Regards, Curt this is for your use,please do not copy it to any data bas e used to make money. i am glad to share it with you rober t lord !GENERAL:GEDCOM file imported on 24 Mar 2003., GEDCOM fil e imported on 24 Mar 2003.
  
  === Hugh's last name is also spelled Kevelioc ===
  Hugh's last name is also spelled Kevelioc and he is also referred to as de Meschins (which is incorrect). He was the 5th Earl-Palatine of Chester and Vicomte d'Aoranches. PA calls him the 3rd Earl. He may have had a wife before Bertrade. We know Amicia of Chester is his daughter and not Bertrade d'Evereux de Montfort's.
  NOTE: Meschin was a nickname for his grandfather. It was not a family name. The correct form is Meschin (younger) not le Meschines or de Meschines or le/de Meschins.
  
  === William de Vernon [2nd son of Richard]; ===
  William de Vernon [2nd son of Richard]; great grandfather o f [Richard deVernon who married Av ice in 1171]. [Burke' s Peerage] William de Vernon [2nd son of Richard]; great grandfather o f [Richard deVernon who married Av ice in 1171]. [Burke' s Peerage] this is for your use,please do not copy it to any data bas e used to make money. i am glad to share it with you rober t lord !GENERAL:The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton , 1968, The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton , 1968, 126 !GENERAL:Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charl es Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999, Burke's Peerage & Baroneta ge, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 28 84 !GENERAL:GEDCOM file imported on 24 Mar 2003., GEDCOM fil e imported on 24 Mar 2003.

1. Maude de Kevilioc, b. ABT 1194     d. AFT 6 JAN 1232/33
2. Mabel de Meschines, b. ABT 1173    
3. Hawise de Meschines,     d. AFT 6 JUN 1241
4. Agnes de Meschines, b. 1174 in Chester, Cheshire, England     d. 2 NOV 1247 in Stowe-By-Chartley, Staffordshire, England
5. Amicia De Meschines,    

• m. 1166 in Montfort, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France
• m. ABT 1169 in Montfort, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France

1. Lady Agnes Kevelioc Lady Chartley De Meschines, b. 1174 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England     d. 2 NOV 1247 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England