Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester

Other Events and Attributes:

• AFN: TL2X-WS
• Name: Hugh "le Gros" d'Avranches
• Name: Hugh "Lupus" d'Avranches
• Name: Hugh "Vras" d'Avranches
• UID: 12E18DE09A674B4189A231707770E3890CC8

Notes:

IDENTIFIER: Styled "Vras", or "le Gros", or "Lupus".

KINSHIP: Son and heir.

BIRTH: Date Approximated> At the utmost, he would have been but 19 years in 1066, (year of the battle of Hastings).

MILITARY: Battles and Wars> Generally supposed to have fought at the battle of Hastings (1066), when at most, he would have been but 19 years of age.
CHURCH: Founded the Abbey of St. Sever in Normandy.
CHURCH: Founded the Abbey of St. Werburg, Chester {St. Werberg Abbey, Chester, Cheshire, England}.
CHURCH: Largely endowing the Abbey of Whitby, co. York {Whitby Abbey, Whitby, Yorkshire, England}.
CHURCH: Became a monk 3 days before he died: 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 14 p. 170 [CHESTER: p. 165 line 15].

TITLES: Became Earl of Chester, 1071.
TITLES: Succeeded father, after 1082, as Vicomte d'Avranches.

POLITICS: In the rebellion (1096) against William II, he stood by his Sovereign.

PROPERTY: Received from the King, his maternal uncle, the whole of the county palatine of Chester (excepting Episcopal lands), 1071.

BURIAL: Reinterment> He was buried in the cemetery of St. Werburg, but his body was afterwards removed to the Chapter House by Earl Ranulph le Meschin: 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 14 p. 170 [CHESTER: p. 165 line 16].

Family/Spouse: Ermentrude of Clermont. Ermentrude (daughter of Hugh Count of Clermont and Marguerite of Montdidier and Rouci) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]