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http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm HUG UES d'Avranches "Lupus", son of RICHARD "le Goz" Vicomte d'Avranche s & his wife Emma [de Conteville] ([1047]-St Werburg's Abbey, Cheste r 27 Jul 1101 [1]). He is named as son of Richard "le Goz" by Orderi c Vitalis [2]. A manuscript relating to St Werburgh´s Chester record s that “Hugo Lupus filius ducis Britanniæ et nepos Gulielmi magni e x sorore” transformed the foundation into a monastery [3]. This sugg ests that the mother of Hugues may have been a uterine sister of Kin g William, and therefore daughter of Herluin de Conteville. However, n o indication has been in other primary sources which supports the cont ention that Hugues was the son of a duke of Brittany. It is assumed th erefore that both lines of his parentage have been romanticised in thi s document to improve his status and reputation. Robert of Torigny's D e Immutatione Ordinis Monachorum records that "Hugo vicecomitis Abrinc atensis postea… comes Cestrensis" founded "abbatiam Sancti Severi i n Constantinensi episcopatu" [4]. The Brevis Relatio de Origine Willel mi Conquestoris records that "Hugone postea comite de Cestria" contrib uted 60 ships towards the invasion of England in 1066 [5]. Orderic Vit alis records that William I King of England granted Hugues the whole o f the county palatine of Chester [6] in 1071, whereby he is considere d to have become Earl [of Chester] (as shown below, some primary sourc es do indicate the territorial attribution although it is unclear whet her any of these documents were strictly contemporary). He succeeded h is father in [1082] as Vicomte d'Avranches. An undated charter record s the grant of pasturage rights "ad castrum Claromontis, Credulii, Gor naci, Lusarchiarum" to Saint-Leu d´Esserant by "Hugo comes Cestrensis " and "Hugo Claromontensis et Margarita uxor eius", later confirmed b y "Rainaldus comes" with the consent of "uxore eius Clementia et filii s eius Guidone et Rainaldo" [7]. Domesday Book records that “Earl Hu gh” held Bickton in Fordinbridge Hundred in Hampshire; Drayton in Su tton Hundred and Buscot in Wyfold hundred in Berkshire; his land-holdi ngs in Dorset; and in numerous other counties [8]. Florence of Worcest er records that, in 1098, he and Hugh de Montgommery Earl of Shrewsbur y led troops into Anglesey where they mutilated or massacred many of t he inhabitants of the island [9]. "…Hugonis comitis…" subscribe d a charter dated 14 Sep 1101 under which Henry I King of England dona ted property to Bath St Peter [10]. He founded the abbeys of Saint-Sev er in Normandy and St Werburg in Chester, becoming a monk at the latte r four days before he died [11]. Orderic Vitalis states that Hugues wa s "a slave to gluttony, he staggered under a mountain of fat" and wa s "given over to carnal lusts and had a numerous progeny of sons and d aughters by his concubines" [12]. The Annales Cambriæ record the deat h in 1101 of "Hugo comes Crassus urbis Legionum" [13]. A manuscript na rrating the descent of Hugh Earl of Chester to Alice Ctss of Lincoln r ecords the death “VI Kal Aug” of “Hugo primus comes Cestriæ