Parents

Father: Earl Ranulph IV of Chester
Born: 1100 in Gernon Castle, Normandy
Married: Unknown
Died: December 16, 1153 in Kevelioc, Merioneth, Wales

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Mother: Lady Maud Fitzrobert of Gloucester
Born: 1106 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Died: July 29, 1189 in Kevelioc, Merioneth, Wales

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Children:
1. Earl Hugh V of Chester (b.1122)

Note: Ranulph or Randle II, 4th Earl of Chester, surnamed Gernouns, because he was born at Gernon Castle in Normandy, succeeded his father in the Earldom of Chester and in all his patrimony, both in England and Normandy. This nobleman was a leading military character, and took an active part with the Empress Maud and Prince Henry, her son, against King Stephen. Later Ranulph II became reconciled with Stephen. He came to the King and desired pardon for his rebellion at Lincoln and for seizing his sovereign's possessions and thereupon was received into favour. In further testimony he helped the king's forces and gallantly assaulted the town of Bedford, and delivered it into Stephen's hands. But for all this friendship, Randle was suspected of Stephen because he surrendered not the castles and rents which he had taken, and because of the Earl's wavering and unstable mind, so that neither the king nor his prime councillors durst rely on him. Seeing himself suspected of treason he later turned against Stephen. He died Dec. 16, 1153, distrusted by both sides and supposed to have been poisoned by his wife and William Peveral of Nottingham. Maud, his widow, died July 29, 1189. She was daughter of Robert, son of Henry I.

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