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Mother: EMMA de CONTEVILLE |
"The Baronage of England, Vol. 1 Author: William Dugdale
Publication: 1675;
A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and
Extinct Peerages of the British Empire
Burke's Extinct Author: Sir Bernard Burke Publication: Burke's
Peerage Genealogical Publishing Co., London and Baltimore, 1883
2nd Earl of Chester, Vicomte d'Avranches. Hugh was one of
William the Conqueror's chief councillors and contributed 60
ships for the invasion of England in 1066. He was rewarded with
vast estates. When Gerbod, earl of Chester, left England in
1071, the Conqueror bestowed his earldom on Hugh. The earldom
was granted as a palatinate, giving Hugh powers greater than the
norm under the feudal system. William's purpose in giving Hugh
such strength was to allow him to function as the main bulwark
against his Welsh adversaries. "Extravagant without being
liberal he loved show, was always ready for war, and kept an
army rather than a household. An inordinate craving for sport
lead him to lay waste his own lands that he might have more
space for hunting and hawking. He was gluttonous and sensual,
becoming so unwieldy that he could scarcely walk, and was
generally styled 'Hugh the Fat;' he had many children by
different mistresses. His wars with the Welsh were carried on
with a savage ferocity, which made the name 'Wolf" [Lupus]
bestowed on him in later days an appropriate designation. At the
same time he was a wise counsellor, a loyal subject. . ." In the
rebellion of 1088, he remained faithful to William Rufus. In
1098, he and Hugh [son of Roger of Montgomery], earl of
Shrewsbury, completed the conquest of Anglessy and subdued the
larger part of northern Wales. Between the death of King Rufus
in 1100 and his own death in 1101, Hugh was one of the principal
councillors of the new King Henry I. Having founded the Abbeys
of St. Sever in Normandy and St. Werburg at Chester, besides
largely endowing that of Whitby, Yorkshire, he became a monk on
July 23, 1101, and died four days later.
CP notes that "his career was chiefly notorious for gluttony,
prodigality and profligacy." He was buried in the cemetery of
St. Werberg, but his body was later removed to the Chapter House
by earl Ranulph le Meschin.
Upon the detention of Gherbod, a prisoner in Flanders, a Fleming
who first held the Earldom of Chester, that dignity was
conferred, A.D. 1070, by the Conqueror, upon his half-sister's*
son, Hugh de Abrincis (or Avranches, in Normandy), surnamed
Lupus, and called by the Welch, Vras, or "the Fat." "Which
Hugh," says Dugdale, "being a person of great note at that time
amongst the Norman nobility, and an expert soldier, was, for
that respect, chiefly placed so near those unconquered Britains,
the better to restrain their bold incursions; for it was,
'consilio prudentium,' by the advice of his council, that King
William thus advanced him to that government; his power being,
also, not ordinary; having royal jurisdiction within the
precincts of his earldom--which honor he received to hold as
freely . . . as the King himself held England by the crown. But,
though the time of his advancement was not till the year 1070,
certain it is that he came into England with the Conqueror and
thereupon had a grant of Whitby, in Yorkshire, which lordship he
soon afterwards disposed of to William de Percy, his associate
in that famous expedition."
In the contest between William Rufus and his brother, Robert
Curthose, this powerful nobleman sided with the former and
remained faithful to him during the whole of his reign. He was
subsequently in the confidence of Henry I, and one of that
monarch's chief councillors.
"In his youth and flourishing age," continues Dugdale, "he was a
great lover of worldly pleasures and secular pomp; profuse in
giving, and much delighted with interludes, jesters, horses,
dogs, and other like vanities; having a large attendance of such
persons, of all sorts, as were disposed to those sports; but he
had also in his family both clerks and soldiers, who were men of
great honor, the venerable Anselme (abbot of Bec, and afterwards
archbishop of Canterbury) being his confessor; nay, so devout he
grew before his death, that sickness hanging long upon him, he
caused himself to be shorn a monk in the abbey of St. Werberge,
where, within three days after, he died, 27 July, 1101."
His lordship m. Ermentrude, dau. of Hugh de Claremont, Earl of
Bevois, in France, by whom he had an only son, Richard, his
successor. Of his illegitimate issue were Ottiwell, tutor to
those children of King Henry I who perished at sea; Robert,
originally a monk in the abbey of St. Ebrulf, in Normandy, and
afterwards abbot of St. Edmundsbury, in Suffolk; and Geva, the
wife of Geffrey Riddell, to whom the earl gave Drayton Basset,
in Staffordshire.
That this powerful nobleman enjoyed immense wealth in England is
evident from the many lordships he held at the general survey;
for, besides the whole of Cheshire, excepting the small part
which at that time belonged to the bishop, he had nine lordships
in Berkshire, two in Devonshire, seven in Yorkshire, six in
Wiltshire, ten in Dorsetshire, four in Somersetshire, thirty-two
in Suffolk, twelve in Norfolk, one in Hampshire, five in
Oxfordshire, three in Buckinghamshire, four in Gloucestershire,
two in Huntingdonshire, four in Nottinghamshire, one in
Warwickshire, and twenty-two in Leicestershire.
It appears too, by the charter of foundation to the abbey of St.
Werburge, at Chester, that several eminent persons held the rank
of baron under him, which Barones and Homines mentioned therein
were the following: -- 1. William Melbanc; 2. Robert, son of
Hugo; 3. Hugo, son of Norman; 4. Richard de Vernon; 5. Richard
de Rullos; 6. Ranulph Venator; 7. Hugh de Mara; 8. Ranulph, son
of Ermiwin; 9. Robert de Fremouz; 10. Walkelinus, nephew of
Walter de Vernon; 11. Seward; 12. Giselbert de Venables; 13.
Gaufridus de Sartes; 14. Richard de Mesnilwarin; 15. Walter de
Vernun. The charter concludes---"Et ut hæc omnia essent rata et
stabilia in perpetuum, ego Come Hugo et mei Barones
confirmavimus (&c.), ita quod singuli nostrum propria manu, in
testimonium posteris signum in modum Crucis facerunt:"--and is
signed by the earl himself; Richard his son; Hervey, bishop of
Bangor; Ranulph de Meschines, his nephew, who eventually
inherited the earldom; Roger Bigod; Alan de Perci; William
Constabular; Ranulph Dapifer; William Malbanc; Robert FitzHugh;
Hugh FitzNorman; Hamo de Masci; and Bigod de Loges. Those
barons, be it remembered, were each and all of them men of great
individual power and large territorial possessions. Hugh Lupus,
Earl of Chester, was s. by his only son (then but seven years of
age), Richard de Abrincis, as 2nd earl. [Sir Bernard Burke,
Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London,
1883, pp. 1-2, Abrincis, Earls of Chester]
From this, it would appear that Hugh was the son of Emma de
Conteville (half-sister of the Conqueror) and Richard, Viscount
d'Avranches, rather than being Richard's illegitimate son. I
have, thus, corrected my records to reflect this.
Hugh, Count of Avranches and Earl of Chester presents the world
of the eleventh century nobleman in its full diversity. A
violent military adventurer, a student of vice and
self-indulgence, he was a friend of Anselm. Profligate with his
income, he was a patron of monasteries. His household contained
a bunch of rowdy thugs; it was also cultivated, even pious.
Nicknamed 'the fat' or 'the wolf', Hugh died in the habit of a
Benedictine monk. If contemporaries saw a contradiction, they
have left no sign. Hugh, the son of the count of the Avranchin
in western Normandy and nephew of William the Conqueror,
probably fought at Hastings. Early in the 1070s he was granted
palatine powers over a wide area of the northern Welsh
Marches centered on Chester within which, except for church
lands and pleas, he, not the king, was sovereign. This grant
allowed Hugh complete freedom to establish, by force, French
control over the northern frontier with Wales and to penetrate
along the coast of North Wales towards Anglesey. Hugh was
outside royal supervision, a law unto himself, a tactic copied
with the Montgomerys in Shropshire. Taking full advantage of his
opportunity, he campaigned relentlessly against the Welsh,
extending his power to Bangor, where he established a bishopric
in 1092, and Anglesey. Beyond the English frontier, however, his
authority could only be sustained by castles, garrisons and
repeated raids which, in turn, provoked continual resistance and
rebellion.
On its fringes, the Norman Conquest remained a messy affair.
Elsewhere, Hugh was one of the leading magnates in the
Anglo-Norman realms, inheriting Avranches from his father in the
1080s and, by 1086, holding land in twenty counties outside
Chester. In the succession disputes after the Conqueror's death,
he supported William II and Henry I. Hugh acquired a foul
reputation: vicious; violent; addicted to gambling and sex; and
so greedy 'that, weighed down by a mountain of fat, he could
hardly move.' He was also generous, which explains why his
household was always crowded with many as debauched and
sybaritic as he. But there was another side. Hugh was, according
to Eadmer, an old and close friend of Anselm whom he persuaded
to come to England in 1092 to supervise the installation of a
community of monks at St Werburgh's Chester. Open-handed to
'good men, clerks as well as knights' as well as bad, he
employed a Norman clerk, Gerold, who took upon himself the moral
instruction of his fellow courtiers, using admonitory stories
from the Bible and, no doubt more popular, stirring tales of
Christian warriors and 'holy knights.'
In such a raucous atmosphere of passion, carnality, militarism
and piety, was nurtured the mentality which, in Hugh's lifetime,
generated the Crusades. The knights who, in 1099, stormed
Jerusalem and massacred its inhabitants, some of them Hugh's
relatives and friends, shared this heady brew of
self-righteous, self-pitying extremes of hedonism, brutality,
guilt, obligation, spirituality and remorse. Hugh's only son
Richard, who was childless, drowned in the White Ship in
November 1120. [Who's Who in Early Medieval England, Christopher
Tyerman, Shepheard-Walwyn, Ltd., London, 1996; and Encyclopaedia
Britannica CD, 1997]
Hugh, Earl of Chester. Also Earl of Avranches. Also called Hugh
Lupus (wolf) and Hugh the Fat. Nephew of William I, sister
married Count William d'Eu; daughter, Matilda, married Count
Robert of Mortain. Virtual sovereign of Cheshire. Captured
Anglesey from the Welsh, 1098; became so fat he could barely
crawl; d. 1101. Holdings in 20 counties. [The Domesday Book,
Crescent Books, New Jersey, 1995.]
Author: Cokayne, George E. Periodical: The Complete Peerage
Publication: Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2000
Author: Hammond, Peter W. Periodical: The Complete Peerage, Vol.
XIV: Addenda and Corrigenda
Publication: Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 1998
Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans: Many of the
English Ancestral Lines Prior to 1300 of those Colonial
Americans with known Royal Ancestry but Fully Developed in all
Possible Lines
Abbrev: Boyer, Med English Ancestors (2001)
Author: Compiled by Carl Boyer 3rd Publication: Carl Boyer 3rd,
PO Box 220333, Santa Clarita, CA 91322-0333, 2001 Page: p. 48,
CHESTER 3."
2 Hugh D'Avranches b: 1047 d: 21 JUL 1101 + *Ermentrude De
Clermont b: 1051
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later reinterred at the Chapter House by earl Ranulph le
Meschin.
_ANSFRED II Onfror GOZ ________+
| (0970 - ....)
_TOUSTIEN le GOZ ________________________________________|
| (1000 - ....) |
| |_______________________________
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_RICHARD d' AVRANCHES _|
| (1025 - 1066) |
| | _______________________________
| | |
| |_Judith de MONTANOLIER __________________________________|
| (1004 - ....) |
| |_______________________________
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|--HUGH (Lupus) d' AVRANCHES Earl of Chester
| (1047 - 1101)
| _JEAN de CONTEVILLE ___________+
| | (0969 - ....)
| _HARLEVIN (Herluin) de CONTEVILLE Viscount of Conteville_|
| | (1001 - ....) m 1035 |
| | |_______________________________
| |
|_EMMA de CONTEVILLE ___|
(1036 - ....) |
| _FULBERT de FALAISE of Falaise_
| | (0978 - ....)
|_ARLOTTA HERLEVE de FALAISE of Falaise___________________|
(1012 - 1050) m 1035 |
|_DODA of Falaise_______________
(0990 - ....)
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Mother: AUGUSTE von HESSEN-KASSEL of Hesse and Kassel |
_FREDERICK LEWES von HANOVER of Wales_+
| (1707 - 1751) m 1736
_GEORGE III von HANOVER of England_________________________________|
| (1738 - 1820) m 1761 |
| |_AUGUSTA of Saxe-Gotha________________
| (1719 - 1772) m 1736
_ADOLPHUS FREDERICK von HANOVER Prince of England_|
| (1774 - 1850) m 1818 |
| | ______________________________________
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| |_CHARLOTTE SOPHIA von MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ Princess of Mecklenburg_|
| (1744 - 1818) m 1761 |
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|--MARY ADELAIDE WILHELMINE ELIZABETH HANOVER
| (1833 - 1897)
| ______________________________________
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| ___________________________________________________________________|
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|_AUGUSTE von HESSEN-KASSEL of Hesse and Kassel____|
(1797 - 1889) m 1818 |
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Mother: Catherine Washington SANFORD |
"4. John Randolf Lindsay Mar. 20, 1813-Dec. 1861 m. Dec. 24,
1835 Sarah A. Pullen (Arkansas)
The clue for this line came in "Lindsays of America" where the
author said that none remained alive of the 10 children of John
R. Lindsay but 3 (not including my great grandmother.) She had
died in 1875, before the book was published in 1889. Her
husband, my great grandfather, remarried to Ellen Cooper. Thus
Eliza would not have been living at the time of the writing of
the book. Looking at census records I found that Eliza had
indeed been born to the said John. R. Lindsay and my
grandmother’s youngest brother had been named Lindsay (I am
assuming in honor of his mother’s family.) After Eliza’s death,
Lindsay spent some time with his uncle Lindsay, in the care of
his grandmother Sarah A. Pullen Lindsay. One of the "living"
Lindsay uncles, Charles, was living with Lindsay Bayliss (my
great uncle) when Charles Lindsay was 50 years of age and
single."
1840 Census-Jefferson County, AR
Thomas Bayliss (my great, great grandfather)
John R. Lindsay (my great, great grandfather)
both located on the same page in census so they were close
neighbors
1850 Census-Jefferson County, AR
age
John R. Lindsay 37
Sarah 29
William 13
Frances 8
John 5
Edward 3
Eliza 1
1860 Census-Jefferson County, AR
sex
John R. Lindsay 47 M
Sarah 43 F
W. W. 22 M William
S. F. 18 F Frances
J. R. 15 M John
E. H. 14 M Edward
E. A. 12 F ELIZA
Samuel 9 M
Catherine 5 F
Charles 2 M
_Robert LINDSAY of The Mount_+
| (1710 - 1784) m 1744
_William LINDSAY ______|
| (1743 - 1792) m 1766 |
| |_Susanna OPIE? ______________
| (1720 - 1791) m 1744
_William Henry LINDSAY I_______|
| (1773 - 1823) m 1804 |
| | _George CALVERT V____________+
| | | (1712 - 1782) m 1740
| |_Anne CALVERT _________|
| (1751 - 1822) m 1766 |
| |_Anne CRUPPER _______________+
| (1720 - 1779) m 1740
|
|--John Randolph LINDSAY
| (1813 - 1861)
| _____________________________
| |
| _Joseph SANFORD Esq.___|
| | (1760 - ....) |
| | |_____________________________
| |
|_Catherine Washington SANFORD _|
(1784 - 1848) m 1804 |
| _____________________________
| |
|_Margaret Ann DEBARRY _|
(1760 - ....) |
|_____________________________
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Mother: Mary M. GAY |
_Nathaniel MORGAN ___+
| (1740 - 1802) m 1760
_Jonathan MORGAN Sr.____|
| (1768 - 1840) |
| |_Margaret SUMMERS ___
| (1740 - ....) m 1760
_Alexander Buchanan MORGAN _|
| (1801 - ....) m 1831 |
| | _Alexander BUCHANAN _
| | | (1752 - 1827) m 1772
| |_Jean or Jane BUCHANAN _|
| (1776 - 1833) |
| |_Rachel VANSCHAICK __
| (1752 - 1827) m 1772
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|--Eliza MORGAN
| (1835 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
| ________________________|
| | |
| | |_____________________
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|_Mary M. GAY _______________|
(1810 - ....) m 1831 |
| _____________________
| |
|________________________|
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_THOMAS PITCAIRN 5th of Pitcairn_+
| (1280 - ....)
_HENRY PITCAIRN 6th of Pitcairn_|
| (1300 - ....) |
| |_________________________________
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_HENRY PITCAIRN 7th of Pitcairn_|
| (1330 - ....) |
| | _________________________________
| | |
| |_MARION de TAILLEFER ___________|
| (1300 - ....) |
| |_________________________________
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|--ALEXANDER PITCAIRN 8th of Pitcairn
| (1360 - ....)
| _________________________________
| |
| ________________________________|
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|________________________________|
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Mother: Anna MILLS |
Lydia Mobley (Wife) b. About. 1792 in Jasper MS
Marriage: ABT. 1817
Children:
FNU Tullos b. Bet. 1817 - 1840
Ellender Tullos b. 25 May 1818 in Jones MS m. James Allen
Boutwell (Husband) b. 14 Jan 1811 in Jones MS Marriage: 8 JUL
1834 in Mississippi
_John TULLOS ______________+
| (1682 - 1737) m 1699
_Richard TULLOS _____|
| (1701 - 1771) m 1728|
| |_Barbara MASON ____________+
| (1679 - ....) m 1699
_Willoughby T. TULLOS _|
| (1759 - 1840) m 1783 |
| | _(RESEARCH QUERY) BARRETT _
| | |
| |_Elizabeth BARRETT? _|
| (1701 - 1783) m 1728|
| |___________________________
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|--Temple TULLOS
| (1792 - 1850)
| ___________________________
| |
| _James MILLS ________|
| | (1740 - 1787) m 1760|
| | |___________________________
| |
|_Anna MILLS ___________|
(1770 - 1840) m 1783 |
| _Thomas HICKS _____________
| | (1725 - 1795)
|_Rebecca HICKS ______|
(1742 - 1795) m 1760|
|_Thankful WEEKES __________+
(1712 - 1785)
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