Paternal Family Tree: Avranches
Before 1094 [his father] Hugh of Avranches 1st Earl Chester [aged 46] and [his mother] Ermentrude Clermont Countess Chester [aged 35] were married. She by marriage Countess Chester. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Hugh Clermont Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis [aged 63].
In 1094 Richard Avranches 2nd Earl Chester was born to Hugh of Avranches 1st Earl Chester [aged 47] and Ermentrude Clermont Countess Chester [aged 36].
On 27th July 1101 [his father] Hugh of Avranches 1st Earl Chester [aged 54] died.
After 13th May 1106 [his mother] Ermentrude Clermont Countess Chester [deceased] died.
In 1107 Richard Avranches 2nd Earl Chester [aged 13] succeeded 2nd Earl Chester. [his future wife] Lucia Mahaut Blois Countess Chester by marriage Countess Chester.
In or before 1120 Richard Avranches 2nd Earl Chester [aged 25] and Lucia Mahaut Blois Countess Chester were married. She the daughter of Stephen Blois II Count Blois and Chartres [aged 74] and Adela Normandy Countess Blois [aged 52]. He the son of Hugh of Avranches 1st Earl Chester and Ermentrude Clermont Countess Chester. They were half second cousins. She a granddaughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England.
On 25th November 1120 the White Ship left Barfleur in north-west Normandy, with a party of young Normans. King Henry I "Beauclerc" England [aged 52] had left earlier on another ship. A mile out the White Ship foundered on a submerged rock. William Adelin Duke Normandy [aged 17], his half-siblings Richard Fitzroy [aged 19] and Matilda Fitzroy Countess Perche, William Bigod [aged 27], [his wife] Lucia Mahaut Blois Countess Chester, brothers Geoffrey Aigle and Engenulf Aigle, half-brothers Richard Avranches 2nd Earl Chester [aged 26] and Ottiwel Avranches, brothers Ivo Grandesmil and William Grandesmil and Geoffrey Ridel were all drowned.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 25th November 1120. And in this expedition were drowned the king's [aged 52] two sons, William [aged 17] and Richard [aged 19], and Richard, Earl of Chester [aged 26], and [his half-brother] Ottuel his brother, and very many of the king's household, stewards, and chamberlains, and butlers, and men of various abodes; and with them a countless multidude of very incomparable folk besides. Sore was their death to their friends in a twofold respect: one, that they so suddenly lost this life; the other, that few of their bodies were found anywhere afterwards.
Chronicon ex Chronicis by Florence and John of Worcester. [25th November 1120] Shipwreck of king Henry's children. Henry, king of England, having successfully accomplished all his designs, returned from Normandy to England. His son William [aged 17], hastening to follow him, embarked in company with a great number of nobles, knights, women, and boys. Having left the harbour and put out to sea, encouraged by the extraordinary calmness of the weather, shortly afterwards the ship in which they were sailing struck on a rock and was wrecked, and all on board were swallowed up by the waves, except one churl, who, as it is reported, was not worthy of being named, but by the wonderful mercy of God, escaped alive. Of those who perished, those of highest rank were, William, the king's son, Richard [aged 26], earl of Chester, [his half-brother] Othiel, his brother, William Bigod [aged 27], Geoffrey Riddel, Walter d'Evereux, Geoffrey, archdeacon of Hereford, the king's daughter, the countess of Perche, the king's niece, the [his wife] countess of Chester, and many more who are omitted for brevity's sake. This disaster horrified and distressed the mind of the king, who reached England after a safe voyage, and of all who heard of it, and struck them with awe at the mysterious decrees of a just God.
Note 1. Ordericus Vitalis, in his twelfth book, c. xxv., gives a particular account of the shipwreck of the Blanche Nef; which is also mentioned, with more or less detail, by Huntingdon, Malmesbury, and other chroniclers.
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ansfred "Dane" Avranches
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thorstein Avranches Viscount Avranches
Grandfather: Richard le Goz Viscount Avranches
Father: Hugh of Avranches 1st Earl Chester
Great x 1 Grandfather: Herluin de Conteville
Grandmother: Emma Mortain Viscountess Avranches
Great x 2 Grandfather: Father of Beatrix and Herleva
Great x 1 Grandmother: Herleva of Falaise
Richard Avranches 2nd Earl Chester
Grandfather: Hugh Clermont Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis