Hugh of , 5th Earl of Chester KEVELIOC

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The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by WalterLee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 129-1
The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968, 95
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by FrederickLewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr.,, 93-26
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by FrederickLewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr.,, 125-28
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                   This nobleman, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester, joined in therebellion of the Earl of Lancaster and the King of Scots against KingHenry II, and in support of that monarch's son, Prince Henry'spretensions to the crown. In which proceeding he was taken prisoner withthe Earl of Leicester at Alnwick, but obtained his freedom soonafterwards 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 prisonerfor some years. He eventually, however, obtained his liberty andrestoration of his lands when public tranquility became completelyreestablished some time about the 23rd year of the king's reign. Hislordship m. Bertred, dau. of Simon, Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and hadissue, I. Ranulph, his successor; I. Maud, m. to David, Earl ofHuntingdon, brother of William, King of Scotland, and had one son andfour daus., viz., 1. John, surnamed le Scot, who s. to the Earldom ofChester, d. s. p. 7 June, 1237; 1. Margaret, m. to Alan de Galloway, andhad a dau., Devorguilla, m. to John de Baliol, and was mother of John deBaliol, 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 forthe 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 ofSayer 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," saysDugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, ofOver Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be adau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in hisAntiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot butmislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave toMainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl ofChester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then musthe 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 onlyson, Ranulph, surnamed Blundevil (or rather Blandevil) from the place ofhis birth, the town of Album Monasterium, modern Oswestry, in Powys), as4th Earl of Chester.

* Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper warbetween Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventuallythe matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, "atan assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by thejustices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of thematter to Mainwaring." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages,Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 365-6, Meschines, Earls ofChester]