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Earl of Chester

Index Earl of Chester

The Earldom of Chester (Welsh: Iarll Caer) was one of the most powerful earldoms in medieval England, extending principally over the counties of Cheshire and Flintshire. [1]

59 relations: Alphonso, Earl of Chester, Caerwys, Charles, Prince of Wales, Cheshire, Chester, Chester Castle, Chester Herald, College of Arms, Duke of Cornwall, Edward I of England, Edward II of England, Edward III of England, Elizabeth II, England in the Middle Ages, Escheat, Ewloe, Flint, Flintshire, Flintshire, Forests of Mara and Mondrem, Frodsham, Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester, GWR 3031 Class, Henry III of England, Henry IV of England, Henry VIII of England, History of Cheshire, Honour (feudal barony), Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester, Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester, John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, John, King of England, Macclesfield, Magna Carta, Magna Carta of Chester, Matilda of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon, Mostyn, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms, North Wales, Northop, Peerage of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Principality, Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester, Rhuddlan, Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester, Richard II of England, River Dee, Wales, ..., Rudheath, Shotwick, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Style of the British sovereign, Suo jure, Tegeingl, William Camden, William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle, William the Conqueror. Expand index (9 more) »

Alphonso, Earl of Chester

Alphonso or Alfonso (24 November 1273 – 19 August 1284), also called Alphonsus and Alphonse and styled Earl of Chester, was an heir apparent to the English throne who never became king.

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Caerwys

Caerwys is a town in Flintshire, Wales.

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Charles, Prince of Wales

Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Chester

Chester (Caer) is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales.

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Chester Castle

Chester Castle is in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England.

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Chester Herald

Chester Herald of Arms in Ordinary is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.

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College of Arms

The College of Arms, sometimes referred to as the College of Heralds, is a royal corporation consisting of professional officers of arms, with jurisdiction over England, Wales, Northern Ireland and some Commonwealth realms.

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Duke of Cornwall

Duke of Cornwall is a title in the Peerage of England, traditionally held by the eldest son of the reigning British monarch, previously the English monarch.

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Edward I of England

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

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Edward II of England

Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Carnarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.

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Edward III of England

Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death; he is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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England in the Middle Ages

England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the Early Modern period in 1485.

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Escheat

Escheat is a common law doctrine that transfers the real property of a person who died without heirs to the Crown or state.

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Ewloe

Ewloe (Ewlo) is a village in Flintshire, Wales, contiguous with Hawarden and Buckley and near to Queensferry and Shotton.

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Flint, Flintshire

Flint (Y Fflint) is a town in Flintshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Dee.

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Flintshire

Flintshire (Sir y Fflint) is a principal area of Wales, known as a county.

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Forests of Mara and Mondrem

The Forests of Mara and Mondrem were adjacent medieval forests in Cheshire, England, which in the 11th century extended to over, stretching from the Mersey in the north almost to Nantwich in the south, and from the Gowy in the west to the Weaver in the east.

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Frodsham

Frodsham is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester

Gerbod the Fleming, of Oosterzele, 1st Earl of Chester, was a hereditary advocate of the Abbey of Saint Bertin at Saint-Omer, Flanders (now France) and Earl of Chester in 1070.

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GWR 3031 Class

The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899.

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Henry III of England

Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death.

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Henry IV of England

Henry IV (15 April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413, and asserted the claim of his grandfather, Edward III, to the Kingdom of France.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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History of Cheshire

The history of Cheshire can be traced back to the Hoxnian Interglacial, between 400,000 and 380,000 years BP.

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Honour (feudal barony)

In medieval England, an honour could consist of a great lordship, comprising dozens or hundreds of manors.

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Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester

Hugh d'Avranches (– 27 July 1101), also known as (Hugues le Gros) or (Hugo Lupus), was the second Norman earl of Chester (2nd creation) and one of the great magnates of early Norman England.

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Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester

Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester (1147 – 1181), also written Hugh de Kevilioc, was an Anglo-Norman magnate who was active in in England, Wales, Ireland and France during the reign of King Henry II of England.

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John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon

John of Scotland (or John de Scotia), 9th Earl of Huntingdon and 7th Earl of Chester (c. 1207 – 6 June 1237), sometimes known as "the Scot", was an Anglo-Scottish magnate, the son of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon by his wife Matilda of Chester, daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc.

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John, King of England

John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216), also known as John Lackland (Norman French: Johan sanz Terre), was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.

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Macclesfield

Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire, England.

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Magna Carta

Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"), is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

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Magna Carta of Chester

Magna Carta of Chester, or Cheshire, was a charter of rights issued in 1215 in the style of the Magna Carta.

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Matilda of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon

Matilda of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon (1171 – 6 January 1233) was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman, sometimes known as Maud and sometimes known with the surname de Kevelioc.

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Mostyn

Mostyn is a small village in Flintshire, Wales, and electoral ward lying on the estuary of the River Dee, located near the town of Holywell.

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Norroy and Ulster King of Arms

Norroy and Ulster King of Arms is the King of Arms at the College of Heralds with jurisdiction over England north of the Trent and Northern Ireland.

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North Wales

North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is an unofficial region of Wales.

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Northop

Northop (Llaneurgain) is a small village and an electoral ward situated in Flintshire, Wales, approximately 12 miles west of the city of Chester, midway between Mold and Flint, and situated just off junction 33 of the A55 North Wales Expressway.

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Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain.

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Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales (Tywysog Cymru) was a title granted to princes born in Wales from the 12th century onwards; the term replaced the use of the word king.

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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982) is a member of the British royal family.

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Principality

A principality (or princedom) can either be a monarchical feudatory or a sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a monarch with the title of prince or by a monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince.

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Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester

Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester and 1st Earl of Lincoln (1170–1232), known in some references as the 4th Earl of Chester (in the second lineage of the title after the original family line was broken after the 2nd Earl), was one of the "old school" of Anglo-Norman barons whose loyalty to the Angevin dynasty was consistent but contingent on the receipt of lucrative favours.

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Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester

Ranulf II (also known as Ranulf de Gernon) (1099–1153) was an Anglo-Norman potentate who inherited the honour of the palatine county of Chester upon the death of his father Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester.

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Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester

Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester (1070−1129) was a Norman magnate based in northern and central England.

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Rhuddlan

Rhuddlan (approximately "RHITH-lan") is a town, community and electoral ward in the county of Denbighshire within the historic boundaries of Flintshire, on the north coast of Wales.

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Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester

Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (1094 – 25 November 1120) was the son of Hugh, 1st Earl of Chester and Ermentrude of Clermont.

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Richard II of England

Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399.

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River Dee, Wales

The River Dee (Afon Dyfrdwy, Deva Fluvius) is a river in the United Kingdom.

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Rudheath

Rudheath is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, in the north west of England, approximately 2 miles east of Northwich.

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Shotwick

Shotwick is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Puddington, on the southern end of the Wirral Peninsula in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (– 4 August 1265), also called Simon de Munford and sometimes referred to as Simon V de Montfort to distinguish him from other Simons de Montfort, was a French-English nobleman who inherited the title and estates of the earldom of Leicester in England.

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Style of the British sovereign

The precise style of British sovereigns has varied over the years.

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Suo jure

Suo jure is a Latin phrase, used in English to mean "in his/her own right".

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Tegeingl

Tegeingl, in English Englefield, was a cantref in north-east Wales during the medieval period.

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William Camden

William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

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William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle

William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle (died 1260) (Latinised as de Fortibus, sometimes spelt Deforce) played a conspicuous part in the reign of Henry III of England, notably in the Mad Parliament of 1258.

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William the Conqueror

William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Chester

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