The Death of Hugh Lupus.
THis Hugh Earl of Chester died the 27 day of July, Anno Christi 1101. [Obiit 1101] in the first Year of the Reign of King Henry I. almost expired. So Ordericus Vitalis, p. 787.
Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record.
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- Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record.
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- Leycester, Peter, Sir, 1614-1678.
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- M.DC.LXXIII [1673]
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"Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70453.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Anno 1101.—Intereà Hugo Comes Cestriae in lectum decidit, & post diuturnum lan∣guorem Monachatum in Caenobio, quod idem Cestrae construxerat, suscepit: atquè pòst triduum sexto Calendas Augusti obiit.
Polychronicon thus:—Anno 1102. Hugo Comes Cestrensis, Nepos Regis Willielmi Conquestoris ex parte Sororis, obiit. But for the most part the Year is very uncertainly put down in the Margent, and many times omitted by him.
He was Earl of Chester one and thirty Years.
This Hugh had Whitby in Yorkshire given him by the Conqueror, and he gave the same to William de Percy, who Founded an Abbey there. Monasticon, vol. 1. pag. 172. Earl Hugh gave also to the Prior of Whitby, the Church of St. Peters of Whitby, and also the Church of Flemesburgh. Monasticon. vol. 1. pag. 73.
This Earl also Founded the Abbey of St. Severus, in the Bishoprick of Constance in Normandy. Monasticon, vol. 2. pag. 950. He gave also to the Abbey of Bek in Nor∣mandy, the Mannor of Atherstone in England in Warwickshire. Ibid. vol. 2. pag. 954.
Robert de Beaumont Earl of Mellent in France, and this Hugh Earl of Chester, were the principal Supporters of Henry the First, in advancing him to the Crown of England. Ordericus, pag. 783.