From the time of Domesday until the 1230s Cheshire was in the hands of the powerful earls of Chester: Hugh d'Avranches; his son, Richard d'Avranches; his cousin Ranulf le Meschin; his son Ranulf de Gernon; his son Hugh de Cyfylliog; his son Ranulf de Blundeville; and finally, a kinsman, John Canmore, known as 'le Scot'. These Norman earls were part of the national scene and very much involved in the politics of the kingdom and northern France. The earls had many estates across the country, from Cheshire and North Wales across the midland shires to Lincolnshire, as well as across the English Channel in their ancestral home of Normandy. At the height of their power they owned and controlled about a third of England and Normandy.
This to be an academic examination of their place in Anglo-Norman society or of what may or may not have been their aims and objectives, rather this a story of their lives, their landed possessions, their power and influence upon English medieval politics. Whilst this book does not add to our historical knowledge of the earls it does place in one publication much of what we know of their lives.
| Author: Tony Bostock |
| Publisher: Independently Published |
| Publication Date: Dec 30, 2021 |
| Number of Pages: 196 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: NA |
| ISBN-13: 9798492483692 |
