Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester

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Hugh of Cyfeiliog
Maud of Gloucester

Hugh of Cyfeiliog, 5th Earl of Chester (/kəˈvaɪliɒɡ/ kə-VY-lee-og, Welsh: [kəˈvɛiljɔɡ]; 1147 – 30 June 1181), also written Hugh de Kevilioc,[needs IPA] was an Anglo-French magnate who was active in England, Wales, Ireland and France during the reign of King Henry II of England.[1]

Origins

Born in 1147, he was the son of

illegitimate son of King Henry I of England. A later tradition claims he was born in the Cyfeiliog district of Wales.[1]

Career

On his father's death in 1153, he became heir to extensive estates. In France, these included the hereditary viscountcies of

Council of Clarendon.[1]

In 1173, however, he joined the revolt of the king's sons and led the rebels in Brittany. After sending an army of Brabantines, who forced the rebels to retreat into the castle of Dol, in August 1174 Henry arrived in person to lead the siege. Hugh and his companions, with no food left, surrendered after being promised no executions or mutilations. Held prisoner in various castles, he made his peace with Henry and was one of the witnesses of the Treaty of Falaise in October 1174 that ended hostilities.[1]

At the Council of Northampton in January 1177 his lands were restored, but not his castles, and in March he was a witness to Henry's arbitration between the kings of Castile and Navarre. Then in May, at the Council of Windsor, Henry restored his castles and ordered him to Ireland. There is no record of him gaining any military successes or grants of land there.[1]

He died on 30 June 1181 at Leek in Staffordshire and was buried beside his father on the south side of the chapter house of St Werburgh's Abbey in Chester, now Chester Cathedral. His successor was his only legitimate son.[1]

Chapter house of Chester Cathedral

Benefactions

During his life he made grants to St Werburgh's Abbey at Chester, to

St Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester, and to the Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen, in Normandy.[1]

Family

In 1169 he married Bertrade, daughter of

Amaury III of Montfort.[1]
Their children were:

  • Ranulf III, who became 6th Earl of Chester but died childless in 1232, when his four legitimate sisters became his heirs.[1]
  • David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon.[1]

Known illegitimate children were: Pagan; Roger; Amice, who married Ranulf Mainwaring, justice of Chester;

Llywelyn the Great.[5]

Peerage of England
Preceded by Earl of Chester
1153–1181 		Succeeded by

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14059. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ Leycester, Sir Peter, Tracts written in the controversy respecting the legitimacy of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester, A.D. 1673-1679, volume 78.
  3. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1
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  4. ^ Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Vol. 1, p. 47, Vol. 2, p. 333
  5. ^ Lloyd, John. E. A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest Longmans, Green & Co. (1911) pp. 616-7
  • Annales Cestrienses; or, Chronicle of the Abbey of S. Werburg, at Chester, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 1879.
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