IV. The Wife of Randle the First.
HE Married Lucy, the Widow of Roger de Romara, Son of Geroldus. Ordericus, pag. 871. She was the Daughter of Algar the Saxon, Earl of Mercia, and
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 8, 2024.
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Sister to the two great Earls, Edwine Earl of Mercia, and Morcar Earl of Northumber∣land, who stoutly opposed William the Conqueror. This Lucy had three Husbands, and survived them all: The first was Ivo de Talbois Earl of Angeau: The second was Roger de Romara, Son of Gerold, by whom she had Issue William de Romara Earl of Lincoln: The third was this Earl of Chester. Cambden in his Britannia, at the end of Leycester∣shire.
This Lady Lucy, Countess of Chester and Lincoln, Founded the Priory of Spalding in Lincolnshire, where in times past were Monks of Anjou in France. So Leland, a Ma∣nuscript in Oxford Library, pag. 86. See Monasticon, Vol. 1. pag. 307, 308. & Vol. 2. pag. 871.
The same Lucy, with her two Sons, Randle Earl of Chester, and William de Romara Earl of Lincoln, Founded a Priory of Nuns at Stikeswold, of the Order of Cistertians, in the County of Lincoln. Idem Leland ibidem, pag. 87. See Monasticon, Vol. 2. pag. 809.