Rafe (Ralph) de MAINWARING, JUSTICE OF CHESTER
Name Prefix:Sir Name Suffix: Justice Of Chester Ancestral File Number: 8WK7-S0 Name Suffix: [SIR KNIGHT]/ Ancestral File Number: 8WK7-S0 Seal to Parents: 5 Feb 1975 OGDEN - Ogden, UT
The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or theUnited States, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 1993, 407
Ancestral File Number:8WK7-T5 Ancestral File Number: 8WK7-T5The earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely, Amicia,* m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, "a person," says Dugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, of Over Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be a dau. of the earl by a former wife.But Sir Peter Leicester, in his Antiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot but mislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave to Mainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of theEarl of Chester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then must he be descended from a co-heir to the Earl of Chester; but he was not; for the co-heirs of Earl Hugh married four of the greatest peers in the kingdom."* Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper war between Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventually the matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, "at an assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by the justices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the matter to Mainwaring." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 365-6, Meschines, Earls of Chester]
He married Amicia de Meschines 1179 at Warmingham, Cheshire, England . Amicia de Meschines was born at Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales Abt 1177 daughter of Hugh "of Kevelioc" Meschines, 5th Earl of Chester and Bertha (Bertrade) de [Countess] Montfort .
They were the parents of 2
children:
Bertrade de Mainwaring
born Abt 1196.
Roger de Mainwaring
born Abt 1210.
Rafe (Ralph) de Mainwaring, Justice of Chester died Aft 1210 at Warmingham, Cheshire, England .
Amicia de Meschines died at Chester, Cheshire, England .