Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
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Birth26 Jun 1070, Briquessart, Livry, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, Royaume de France
Death27 Jan 1129, Chester, Cheshire, England
Occupation3rd Earl Of Chester, Vicomte De Bayeaux
FatherRanulf de Briquessart
MotherMatilda of the Avranchin
ChildrenRanulf de Gernon
Alice de Gernon, of Chester (~1094-~1128)
Notes for Lucia Taillebois (Lucy of Bolingbroke) of Mercia
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Lucy of Bolingbroke
Lucy , sometimes called Lucy of Bolingbroke[1] was an Anglo-Norman heiress in central England and, later in life, countess-consort of Chester. Probably descended partly from the old English earls of Mercia, she came to possess extensive lands in Lincolnshire which she passed on to her husbands and sons. She was a notable religious patron, founding or co-founding two small religious houses and endowing several with lands and churches.
A charter of Crowland Abbey, now thought to be spurious, described Thorold of Bucknall, perhaps the same as her probable father Thorold of Lincoln, as a brother of Godgifu , wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia.[2] The same charter contradicted itself on the matter, proceeding to style Godgifu's son , Ælfgar, as Thorold's cognatus .[3] Another later source, from Coventry Abbey, made Lucy the sister of Earls Edwin and Morcar Leofricsson, while two other unreliable sources, the Chronicle of Abbot Ingmund of Crowland and the Peterbrough Chronicle also make Lucy the daughter of Earl Ælfgar.[3] Keats-Rohan's explanation for these accounts is that they were ill-informed and were confusing Lucy with William Malet's mother.[3]
Although there is much confusion about Lucy's ancestry in earlier writings, contemporary historians tend to believe that she was the daughter of Thorold, sheriff of Lincoln, by a daughter of William Malet .[4] It appears to be accepted however that Lucy was descended from Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, even if the precise genealogy is not clear. This descent came either from Lucy's father or from William Malet's mother.[5] She inherited an huge group of estates centred on Spalding in Lincolnshire, probably inherited from both the Lincoln and the Malet family.[6] This group of estates have come to be called the "Honour of Bolingbroke".[7]
Lucy of Bolingbroke
Lucy , sometimes called Lucy of Bolingbroke[1] was an Anglo-Norman heiress in central England and, later in life, countess-consort of Chester. Probably descended partly from the old English earls of Mercia, she came to possess extensive lands in Lincolnshire which she passed on to her husbands and sons. She was a notable religious patron, founding or co-founding two small religious houses and endowing several with lands and churches.
A charter of Crowland Abbey, now thought to be spurious, described Thorold of Bucknall, perhaps the same as her probable father Thorold of Lincoln, as a brother of Godgifu , wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia.[2] The same charter contradicted itself on the matter, proceeding to style Godgifu's son , Ælfgar, as Thorold's cognatus .[3] Another later source, from Coventry Abbey, made Lucy the sister of Earls Edwin and Morcar Leofricsson, while two other unreliable sources, the Chronicle of Abbot Ingmund of Crowland and the Peterbrough Chronicle also make Lucy the daughter of Earl Ælfgar.[3] Keats-Rohan's explanation for these accounts is that they were ill-informed and were confusing Lucy with William Malet's mother.[3]
Although there is much confusion about Lucy's ancestry in earlier writings, contemporary historians tend to believe that she was the daughter of Thorold, sheriff of Lincoln, by a daughter of William Malet .[4] It appears to be accepted however that Lucy was descended from Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, even if the precise genealogy is not clear. This descent came either from Lucy's father or from William Malet's mother.[5] She inherited an huge group of estates centred on Spalding in Lincolnshire, probably inherited from both the Lincoln and the Malet family.[6] This group of estates have come to be called the "Honour of Bolingbroke".[7]