REFN: ems-jw
Ancestral File Number: 8XQ8-7R
Lucy, living 1130, widow susscessively, ofIves Taillebois and Roger FitzGerold; m. probably c 1098 Ranulph III le Meschin. [Ancestral Roots]

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He [Ranulph le Meschin] married Lucy, widow of Roger FITZ-GEROLD (by whomshe was mother of William de Roumare, afterwards Earl of Lincoln). Hedied 17 or 27 January 1128/9, and was buried at St. Werburg's, Chester.The Countess Lucy confirmed, as his widow, the grant of the Manor ofSpalding to the monks of that place (f). [Complete Peerage III:166,XIV:170, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(f) She paid 500 marks to King Henry in 1130 for license to remainunmarried for 5 years.

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Antecessor Noster:
The Parentage of Countess Lucy Made Plain

A lot of ink has flowed on the subject, but there can be no doubt thatthe 'mysterious' Countess Lucy of Chester was William Malet'sthrice-married granddaughter, the daughter of Robert Malet's sister andTurold the Sheriff of Lincoln (dead by 1079). The suggestionwas firstmade by R. Kirk in 1888. As N. Sumner has more recently observed: 'Thisaccount has the merit of explaining why the lordship of Spalding andother places in Lincolnshire were held after Ivo's death not by Beatrice,his direct heir and the daughter of his marriage to Lucy, but by thelater husbands of Lucy,Roger fitz Gerold and Ranulph Meschines.' It isclear from her charters thatLucy was an heiress; as was to be expected,her estates passed to the sons of hersecond and third marriages. Kirk'swork was based upon conjecture, and contained a number of errors. Thequestion of Lucy's parentage has therefore remained open. Nevertheless,there is proof that Kirk was right.

A spurious charter of Crowland Abbey made Turold of Bucknall (theSheriff) the founder of the priory of Spalding as a cell of Crowland. Italso called Turold brother of Godivacountess of Mercia, but subsequentlydescribed Godiva's son Earl Algar as Turold'scognatus (cousin). Agenealogia fundatoris of Coventry Abbey made Lucy a daughter of EarlAlgar and sister and heiress of earls Edwin and Morcar. The PeterboroughChronicle and the Pseudo-Ingulf's Chronicle of Crowland both made Lucythe daughter of Algar and niece or great-niece of Turold. We know thatWilliam Malet was half-English, so these traditions probably boil down toa relationship between Countess Godiva and William's English mother.

In 1153 a charter [RRAN, III, 180] of the future Henry II for Lucy's sonRanulf II of Chester referred to her uncles Robert Malet and Alan ofLincoln. Alan of Lincoln was the successor, and almost certainly the son,of Domesday's Alfred of Lincoln. Chronologically, it is most unlikelythat Alan was Lucy's uncle. It was probably another of Alfred's sons whomDomesday described as Alfred nepos [nephew or grandson] of Turold, thenholding a fee which was certainly thereafter held with the rest of thesenior Alfred's fee by his heir Alan. Domesday provides a furtherindication that Alfred senior married another of William Malet'sdaughters when it names a William as Alfred's predecessor in two of hismanors. Other parts of eachof these manors (Linwood and Rothwell) wereheld in 1086 by Durand Malet, who was probably William's son. It seemsthat Henry's charter can be explained by seeing a scribe, perhaps insearch of rhetorical balance, commit the error of ascribing two uncles toLucy, instead of a niece (Lucy) and a nephew (Alan ofLincoln) to RobertMalet, who was uncle to both.

Turold is evidenced in DomesdayBook as a benefactor of Crowland Abbey, to

• Married: Abt 1098 in 3rd Husband
• Note: _UID43CFD01570A7D811BD0D0000E812BF5CD62B

1. Adeliza Alice De MESCHINES b: Abt 1098 in Gernon,,France
2. Ranulph "De Gernon" MESCHINES b: 1099 in Guernon Castle,Normandy,France
3. William De ST. PIERRE b: Abt 1103 in St Pierre & Runstone,Chepstow,Monmouthshire,Wales

• Married: 1089 in 2nd Husband
• Note: _UID2AC8D11570A7D811BD0D0000E812BF5CB740

1. William De ROUMARE b: Abt 1096 in Crowland,Peterborough,Lincolnshire,England

• Married: Aft 1086 in 1st Husband 2nd Wife
• Note: _UID0F11D11570A7D811BD0D0000E812BF5CE5D7

1. Lucy De TAILBOIS b: Abt 1069 in Mercia,England
2. Beatrice De TAILLEBOIS b: Abt 1087 in Anjou,France
3. Christina De TAILLEBOIS b: Aft 1086 in Kendal,Cambria,England