Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameLucy 
[60, Appx J, Vol VII, pp. 743-746], [60, Chester art, Vol III, p.164 seq], [60, Lincoln art, Vol VII, p.667 & Appx J], [54, Husband, Ranulf Le Meschin's article], [80, Husband, Iuo Taillesbois, p. 283], [121, Bolingbroke, Lincs barony, pp. 17-18], [119, Husband, Rannulf comes de Cestrie, p. 228], [119, Lucyia comitissa Cestrensis, p. 247], [295, PROSOPON II, p..2, “Countess Lucy” by Keats-Rohan]
[60, Appx J, Vol VII, pp. 743-746], [60, Chester art, Vol III, p.164 seq], [60, Lincoln art, Vol VII, p.667 & Appx J], [54, Husband, Ranulf Le Meschin's article], [80, Husband, Iuo Taillesbois, p. 283], [121, Bolingbroke, Lincs barony, pp. 17-18], [119, Husband, Rannulf comes de Cestrie, p. 228], [119, Lucyia comitissa Cestrensis, p. 247], [295, PROSOPON II, p..2, “Countess Lucy” by Keats-Rohan]Death1138
GeneralHeir.
FatherTurold (-<1085)
MotherN. N. Malet
Spouses
Marriageca 1094 [60, Appx J, Vol VII, pp. 743-746]
ChildrenWilliam de (ca1096-<1161)
Robert (->1096)
3Ranulf le Meschin Earl of Chester 
[60, Chester art, Vol III, p.164 seq], [54, His own article], [60, Lincoln art, Vol VII, p.677], [60, Chester article, Vol XIV, p. 170], [121, Bolingbroke, Lincs barony, p. 18], [121, Chester barony, p. 32], [119, Rannulf comes de Cestrie, p. 228]
[60, Chester art, Vol III, p.164 seq], [54, His own article], [60, Lincoln art, Vol VII, p.677], [60, Chester article, Vol XIV, p. 170], [121, Bolingbroke, Lincs barony, p. 18], [121, Chester barony, p. 32], [119, Rannulf comes de Cestrie, p. 228]FatherRanulf Vicomte de Bayeux
MotherMargaret
Notes for Lucy
Her father may well have been Thorold the Sheriff of Spalding, Lincs and many other manors.
DNB Main notes for Lucy
DNB in Ranulf, her husband's article: "Another important fief came to Randulf by his marriage with Lucy, widow of Roger FitzGerold (de Roumare), a great heiress, and he thereby became the largest landowner in Lindsey, as is shown by ‘The Lindsey Survey’ (Cott. MS. Claudius, C. 5), drawn up about the middle of the reign of Henry I. Hearne's edition of this record in his ‘Liber Niger Scaccarii’ placed the words ‘Comes Lincolniæ’ after Randulf's name, which has led Stapleton and other authorities, down to Mr. Chester Waters (Survey of Lindsey, p. 12), to believe that he held that title; but Mr. Greenstreet's facsimile edition proves that the words were an interlineation by a much later hand. A series of nine writs, however, from Henry I (Mon. Angl. vol. vi. 1272-1275) prove that he was addressed as the principal layman in the county. The parentage of Randulf's wife, Lucy, has been and is still hotly disputed. The old-fashioned view, found in Dugdale (Baronage, i. 10), and largely based on the pseudo-Ingulf and his continuator ‘Peter of Blois,’ was that she was daughter and heiress of Ælfgar, earl of Mercia, and wife successively to Yvo Tailbois, Roger FitzGerold, and Randulf ‘Meschin.’ As this was seen to be physically impossible, modern genealogists, such as Mr. J. G. Nichols, Mr. Stapleton, and Mr. Hinde, held that there were really two Lucys, mother and daughter, of whom the former was wife of Yvo, and the latter of Roger and Randulf. This view was first advanced in the ‘Annals and Antiquities of Lacock Abbey’ (1835, pp. 65-79), and was emphatically accepted by Mr. Freeman (Norman Conquest, 2nd edit. iii. 778-9, iv. [1871], 472). The whole controversy is summed up by the writer of this article in the ‘Academy,’ 17 Dec. 1887 (cf. 19 Nov., 26 Nov., and 3 Dec. 1887). In a subsequent series of papers on ‘The Countess Lucy’ (Genealogist [new ser.], vol. v.), Mr. R. E. G. Kirk advanced the theory that there was but one Lucy, who was daughter to Thorold, the sheriff, and wife of the above three husbands. It can only be said that her parentage is not yet proved, but that she was a great heiress, who was certainly widow of Roger, and probably of Yvo previously, when Randulf married her."