resting_place death_date predecessor successor children other_names title ethnicity parents term spouse article_title name
chester abbey january 1129 richard d'avranches ranulf de gernon ranulf de gernon , alicia ranulf de briquessart earl of chester -lrb- previously -rrb- lord of cumberland norman french ranulf de briquessart margaret goz 1120 -- 1129 lucy of bolingbroke -lrb- countess-consort of chester -rrb- ranulf le meschin , 3rd earl of chester
 ranulf le meschin
ranulf le meschin , 3rd earl of chester

ranulf le meschin , 3rd earl of chester -lrb- 1070 − 1129 -rrb- was a late 11th - and early 12th-century norman magnate based in northern and central england .
originating in bessin in normandy , ranulf made his career in england thanks to his kinship with hugh d'avranches - the earl of chester , the patronage of kings william ii rufus and henry i beauclerc , and his marriage to lucy , heiress of the bolingbroke-spalding estates in lincolnshire .
ranulf fought in normandy on behalf of henry i , and served the english king as a kind of semi-independent governor in the far north-west , in cumberland and westmorland , founding wetheral priory .
after the death of his cousin richard d'avranches in the white ship disaster of november 1120 , ranulf became earl of the county of chester on the anglo-welsh marches .
he held this position for the remainder of his life , and passed the title on to his son .
