THis Randle the First had Issue by Lucy, Randle the Second, who succeeded Earl of Chester. Ordericus, pag. 871. William, another Son, Earl of Cambridge, who was Witness, with his Brother Randle the Second, to a Charter of Alexander Bishop of Lincoln, of the Island of Haferholm to the Nuns of St. Maries, of the Order of Cister∣cians, dated 1139. 4 Stephani. Also Agnes a Daughter, the first Wife of Robert de Grentemaisnil. Ordericus, pag. 692. Afterwards he married Emme, Daughter of Robert de Stotevill; and his third Wife was Lucy, Daughter of Savaricus Son of Canus.
Adeliza, another Daughter of this Randle, Married Richard Son of Gilbert de Clare, of whom he begot three Sons; which Richard was slain by the Welsh. Will. Gemeticensis, lib. 8. cap. 38. Monasticon, Vol. 1. pag. 118.
[Obiit 1128] * 1.1Randle the First died Anno Domini 1128. after he had been Earl eight Years. Poly∣chronicon, lib. 7. cap. 17. He is called Comes Cumbriae, Monasticon, Vol. 1. pag. 397. but erroneously, and by mistake; for they were stiled Domini Cumbriae, not Comites, as Cambden observes. And I doubt whether in these elder Ages there was any Earl of Cumberland at all, properly to be understood.
This Randle the First gave to the Abbey of St. Mary's at York, the Church of St. Michael, and the Church of St. Laurence of his Castle of Apelby, with all their Appurtenances, id est, which belonged to his Castle of Apelby in Westmorland. Monasti∣con, Vol. 1. pag. 399. in the Reign of King Henry the First.
* 1.2Randle Meschin gave also to the Abbey of Kaldra in Cumberland, that Land of Kal∣dra wherein the Abbey was Founded, and Bemertone, & Holgate, & unam Mansuram in Burgo de Egremunt, & duas Salinas de Withane, & Piscariam de Derewent, & Piscari∣am de Egre, & Pascua ad omnia Animalia in Forestâ ipsius Ranulphi. Monasticon, Vol. 1. pag. 774. But quaere, whether this were not Randle de Micenis, Son of William de Meschin Lord of Coupland, who Founded the Cell of St. Beges in Cumberland, belonging to St. Mary's of York; see Monasticon, Vol. 1. pag. 395, 396. and not our Earl of Chester here spoken of; for that the Page 774. before-cited shews, that the Abbey of Kaldra was Founded Anno Domini 1134. which was after the Death of this Randle Earl of Chester; and it seems not to be meant of our second Randle Earl of Chester, because then he would probably have been stiled Earl, and not barely Randle Meschin, as there he is stiled.
* 1.3Lucia, the Widow of this first Randle Earl of Chester, gave 266 l. 13 s. 4 d. for Live∣ry of her Father's Lands; and also 500 Marks Fine, that she might not be compelled to Marry within five Years.