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Birth:          ABT 1050 Normandy
Death:          1129 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulf_de_Briquessart
Ranulf de Briquessart[1] (or Ranulf the Viscount) (died c. 1089 or soon after) was an 
11th-century Norman magnate and viscount.

Biography[edit]

Ranulf's family were connected to the House of Normandy by marriage, and, besides 
Odo, bishop of Bayeux, was the most powerful magnate in the Bessin region.[2] He 
married Margaret, daughter of Richard Goz, viscount of the Avranchin, whose son and 
successor Hugh d'Avranches became Earl of Chester in England c. 1070.[3]

Ranulf is probably the "Ranulf the viscount" who witnessed a charter of William, Duke 
of Normandy, at Caen on 17 June 1066.[4]

Ranulf helped preside over a judgement in the curia of King William (as duke) in 1076 
in which a disputed mill was awarded to the Abbey of Mont St. Michael.[5] On 14 July 
1080 he witnessed a charter to the Abbey of Lessay (in the diocese of Coutances), 
another in the same year addressed to Remigius de Fécamp bishop of Lincoln in 
favour of the Abbey of Préaux.[6] and one more in the same period, 1079 x 1082, to 
the Abbey of St Stephen of Caen.[7] His name is attached to a memorandum in 1085, 
and on 24 April 1089 he witnessed a confirmation of Robert Curthose, Duke of 
Normandy and Count of Maine to St Mary of Bayeaux, where he appears below his son 
in the witness list.[8]

He certainly died sometime after this. His son Ranulf le Meschin became ruler of 
Cumberland and later Earl of Chester.[9] The Durham Liber Vitae, c. 1098 x 1120, 
shows that his eldest son was one Richard, who died in youth, and that he had 
another son named William.[10] He also had a daughter called Agnes, who later 
married Robert (III) de Grandmesnil (died 1136).[9]

Parents
____ Ranulf (ABT 1017 - )
DE NORMANDY Alix (ABT 1021 - )

Siblings
DE BRIQUESSART Ranulf (ABT 1050 - 1129)

Marriage To D'AVRANCHES Maud (or Margaret) (ABT 1054 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
LE GOZ Richard "le Goz" (ABT 1014 - AFT 1082)
DE CONTEVILLE Emma (ABT 1033 - )

Children by D'AVRANCHES Maud (or Margaret) ABT 1054 - 
LE MESCHIN Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1069 - )
LE MESCHIN Ranulph "De Briquessart" (ABT 1070 - Jan 1129)
LE MESCHIN William (ABT 1078 - 1130)

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