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1. of Caen, Robert
   1. Fitzhammon, Mabel (Maud)
      1. of Gloucester, Christiana
      2. de Caen, Mabira
      3. FitzRobert, Matilda
         1. Le Meschines, Ranulf IV
            1. le Meschines, Alice
            2. de Meschines, Beatrix
            3. le Meschines, Joanna
            4. de Meschines, Isabel
            5. Le Meschines, Hugh
            6. de Meschines, Richard
      4. de Caen, William FitzRobert
      5. de Gai, Philip Fitzrobert

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Source References

1. http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I11544&style=TABLE
2. http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=:2268817&id=I642&style=TABLE
3. L8BS-VB3 FamilySearch.org
4. Matilda FitzRobert - Medlands - FMG
   1. • Source text:

        MATILDA FitzRobert (-29 Jul 1190). Robert of Torigny refers to the wife of "Ranulfus comes Cestriæ" as "filia Roberti comitis Gloecestriæ"[1747]. The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records property “Wadinton de feodo comitis Cestrie” held by “Matillis comitissa Cestrie…filia Roberti comitis Gloecestrie, filii regis Henrici primi”[1748]. It was alleged that she and William Peverell of Nottingham poisoned her husband[1749]. "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…"[1750]. The Annals of Tewkesbury record the death “IV Kal Aug” in 1190 of “Matildis comitissa Cestria”[1751]. m ([1141]) RANULF “de Gernon” Earl of Chester, son of RANULPH “le Meschin” Vicomte de Bayeux & his wife Lucy --- (Château de Gernon, Normandy before 1100-[murdered] 16 Dec 1153, bur Chester, Abbey of St Werburg).

5. Ranulf le Meschin and Lucy of Bolingbroke in Ancestral Roots of Certain Amercian Colonists
   1. • Page: Ancestral Roots of Certain Amercian Colonists, Line 132A, Nos. 26-27
      • Citation:

        Ranulf le Meschin and Lucy de Bolingbroke in Ancestral Roots of Certain Amercian Colonists, Line 132A, Nos. 26-27

      • Citation:

        Robert FitzRoy, Earl of Gloucester, in A New History of Gloucestershire, pg. 93-94, 621 and 739

6. Earls of Gloucester in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106879
   1. • Citation:

        Ranulf le Meschin and Ranulf de Gernon, Earls of Chester, in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. II, pg. 223

      • Citation:

        Ranulph de Meschines (de Gernon) in Burke's Dormant Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 365

7. Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester, in Wikepedia
8. Ormerod, George: Ranulf de Gernon, Earl of Chester, in The History of the Palatine County and City of Chester
   1. • Page: The History of the Palatine County and City of Chester, Vol. 1, pf. 20-25
      • Citation:

        Ranulf de Gernon, Earl of Chester, in The History of the Palatine County and City of Chester, Vol. 1, pf. 20-25

9. Ormerod, George: Pedigree of Ranulf le Meschin in the History of the Palatine County of Chester
   1. • Page: History of the Palatine County of Chester, pg. 121
      • Citation:

        Pedigree of Ranulf le Meschin in the History of the Palatine County of Chester, pg. 121

10. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
11. George Baker: Pedigree of Ranulf le Meschin in The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton
    1. • Page: The History and Antiquitires of the County of Northampton, pg. 121
       • Citation:

         Pedigree of Ranulf de Meschin in The History and Antiquities of the County

         https://archive.org/details/HistoryAndAntiquitiesOfTheCountyOfNorthamptonBakerVol1/page/n121/mode/2up

12. Maud’s Wiki Page
    1. • Source text:

         Maud of Gloucester, Countess of Chester (died 29 July 1189), also known as Matilda, was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and the daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England and Mabel, daughter of Robert fitz Hamon. Her husband was Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester (died 16 December 1153).

         Lady Maud FitzRobert was born on an unknown date, the daughter of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Mabel FitzHamon of Gloucester. She had seven siblings including William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester and Roger, Bishop of Worcester. She also had an illegitimate half-brother, Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, whom her father sired by Isabel de Douvres.

         Her paternal grandparents were King Henry I of England and his mistress, Sybil Corbet. Her maternal grandparents were Robert FitzHamon, Lord of Gloucester and Glamorgan, and Sybil de Montgomery, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Mabel Talvas of Belleme.

         Sometime before 1141, possibly as early as 1135, Matilda married Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, and was accorded the title of Countess of Chester. Her husband had considerable autonomy in his palatine earldom.

         In January 1141, Earl Ranulf and Countess Matilda were at Lincoln Castle when it was besieged by the forces of King Stephen of England. The following month, a relief army loyal to Empress Matilda and led by her father Robert earl of Gloucester defeated and captured the king in the fierce fighting, later known as the First Battle of Lincoln. In return for his help in repelling the king's troops, the countess's father compelled her husband to swear fealty to Empress Matilda, who was Earl Robert's half-sister.
         On 29 August 1146, Earl Ranulf was seized by King Stephen at court in Northampton. Stephen later granted him the castle and city of Lincoln sometime after 1151.

         Children
         1. Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester (1147- 30 June 1181), married Bertrade de Montfort of Évreux, by whom he had five children, including Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, Maud of Chester, and Hawise of Chester, 1st Countess of Lincoln.
         2. possibly Richard of Chester (died 1170/1175), buried in Coventry.
         3. Beatrice of Chester, married Raoul de Malpas
         4. possibly Ranulf of Chester, fought in the siege of Lisbon, granted the lordship of Azambuja by Afonso I of Portugal.

         Ranulf had an illegitimate son, Robert FitzCount (died before 1166), by an unknown mistress. His date of birth was not recorded. Robert married Agnes fitz Neal as her second husband.

         One account contains an unsubstantiated rumor that Countess Maud poisoned her husband with the assistance of William Peverel of Nottingham, but there is no evidence that she did so; Earl Ranulf confirmed her grant to one of her servants, probably on his deathbed. She served as her minor son's guardian for nine years.

         She was an important patron of Repton Priory in Derbyshire. She also made grants to Belvoir Priory.
         The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records property Wadinton de feodo comitis Cestrie, held by Maud, Countess of Chester. Although she was said to be about 50 years of age in that document, she was probably closer to 60 in that year.

         Maud died on 29 July 1189, although the Annals of Tewkesbury records her death in 1190.

13. The Medieval Lands Project, "MATILDA FitzRobert"
14. Maud de Caen, "Find A Grave Index"
    1. • Page: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TQRY : 11 June 2020), Maud de Caen, 1189; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave,
       • Source text:

         Maud de Caen, of Gloucester, daughter of Robert de Caen, an illegitimate son of Henry I and Maud, daughter of Robert Fitz Harmon and Mabel Syble FitzHamon. Maud married Ranulph de Geron, earl of Chester, vicomté d'Avranches, son of Ranulph le Meschin, Earl of Chester and Lucy of Bolingbroke, about 1142.
         She founded Repton Priory in 1172 in Derbyshire, England
         Their Children were
         Richard de Meschines b: abt.. 1143 in Chester, Cheshire, England
         Joanna de Meschines b: abt. 1145 in Chester, Cheshire, England
         Beatrix de Gernon b: abt. 1146 in Chester, Cheshire, England
         Hugh de Kevelioc, Earl of Chester b: 1147 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Monmouth, Wales

       • Citation:

         Name Maud de Caen
         Death or Burial Date 1189
         Death or Burial Place Chester, Cheshire West and Chester Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England
         Death or Burial Place Chester, Cheshire West and Chester Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England
         Cemetery Chester Cathedral
         Death Date 29 Jul 1189
         Event Type Burial
         Photograph Included N
         Note Contains Biography