Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, Norman nobleman

Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester

Anglo-Norman baron

Ranulf II, 4th Earl of Chester (1099–1153), was an Anglo-Norman baron who inherited the honour of the palatine county of Chester and the viscountcy of Avranches upon the death of his father Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester. He was descended from the Counts of Bessin in…