Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameHugh DE MESCHINES 6th Earl Of Chester, 23G Grandfather
FatherRanulph DE GERNON 2d Earl Of Chester (~1100-1153)
MotherMaud FITZROBERT (~1120-1189)
Spouses
1Bertrade D' EVREUX, 23G Grandmother
FatherSimon III DE MONTFORT Comte D'Evreux (-<1188)
MotherAmice DE BEAUMONT (-1215)
ChildrenAmicia Of Chester
Web Notes notes for Hugh DE MESCHINES 6th Earl Of Chester
Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (93:26), (125:28), (126:28), (127:28), (131:28), (252:26). Kevelioc is the anglicised form of the Welsh Cyveiliog. Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Appendix D to v.VII, p.716). Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Derby, p. 196), identifies Hugh and BERTRADE as parents of AGNES.
According to the "Dictionary of National biography" when Hugh's father died in 1153, Hugh, still underage, succeeded to the family possessions on both sides of the channel. These included the hereditary viscounties of Avaranches and Bayeux. Hugh was present at the council of Clerendon in 1164 which drew up the asssizes of Clerendon. Hugh joined in the great feudal revolt against KING HENRY II. in 1173. He was influential in inciting Brittany to revolt. KING HENRY captured Hugh after a long siege. Hugh was shuffled from prison to prison until the general peace commencing with the peace of Falaise in 1174, to which Hugh was a witness. His lands were not fully restored until 1177. HENRY required Hugh to participate in the Irish campaigns, but Hugh took no prominent part and received no Irish estates. Hugh's son, Randulf III, succeeded to Hugh's estates and to the Earldom of Chester upon Hugh's death in 1181, but Randulf died without an heir, so Hugh's four daughters became co-heiresses.
Hugh (Keveliok) de Meschines, surnamed from the place of his birth, in Merionethshire, was the 3rd Earl of Chester. He joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Leicester 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 banner of revolt, both in England and in 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 tranquillity became completely re-established some time about the 23rd year of the king's reign.
According to the "Dictionary of National biography" when Hugh's father died in 1153, Hugh, still underage, succeeded to the family possessions on both sides of the channel. These included the hereditary viscounties of Avaranches and Bayeux. Hugh was present at the council of Clerendon in 1164 which drew up the asssizes of Clerendon. Hugh joined in the great feudal revolt against KING HENRY II. in 1173. He was influential in inciting Brittany to revolt. KING HENRY captured Hugh after a long siege. Hugh was shuffled from prison to prison until the general peace commencing with the peace of Falaise in 1174, to which Hugh was a witness. His lands were not fully restored until 1177. HENRY required Hugh to participate in the Irish campaigns, but Hugh took no prominent part and received no Irish estates. Hugh's son, Randulf III, succeeded to Hugh's estates and to the Earldom of Chester upon Hugh's death in 1181, but Randulf died without an heir, so Hugh's four daughters became co-heiresses.
Hugh (Keveliok) de Meschines, surnamed from the place of his birth, in Merionethshire, was the 3rd Earl of Chester. He joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Leicester 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 banner of revolt, both in England and in 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 tranquillity became completely re-established some time about the 23rd year of the king's reign.