The Lord of the Manor was Earl Hugh of Chester.
According to Orderic Vitalis he fell into the hands of his enemies and was held captive while king William I, seeing the earldom vacant, gave the earldom of Chester to Hugh 'Lupus' d'Avranches.
One of the earliest recorded Ottiwells (as a personal name) was the son of Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester - a Norman.
Chester | James Earl Jones | Hugh Masekela | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Hugh Jackman | Chester A. Arthur | West Chester, Pennsylvania | Hugh Grant | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Earl | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Earl of Derby | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Earl Warren | Hugh Laurie | Earl of Pembroke | Avranches | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Earl of Warwick | Hugh Hefner | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | Hugh | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | Earl of Shrewsbury |
Their town Ingena, called Abrincatae in the Notitia dignitatum, has given its name to the modern Avranches; and their territory would probably correspond to the division of Avranchin.
The relic of Aubert's skull, complete with hole where the archangel's finger pierced it, can still be seen at the Saint-Gervais Basilica in Avranches.
The Diocese of Avranches was not reinstated after the revolution but under the Concordat of 1801 was instead amalgamated with that of Coutances to form the Diocese of Coutances and Avranches.
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Avranches Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-André d'Avranches) was once a Roman Catholic cathedral in Avranches in Normandy.
After his death, directors were appointed for the Seminaries of Valognes, Avranches, Dol, Senlis, Blois, Domfront and Séez.
This is a list of the counts of Avranches, a French fief in the Middle Ages.
# Robert FitzEdith, Lord Okehampton, (1093–1172) who married Dame Maud d'Avranches du Sap.
Eberbach was directed to lead this force in the counterattack through Mortain toward Avranches that was intended to cut off the Allied forces which had broken out of Normandy.
He marched onto Granville, took Avranches on November 12, but failed to seize Granville and retreated to Angers in order to cross the Loire.
They also had at least two daughters: Emma, who married Richard LeGoz or Richard Goz (count or viscount of Avranches), and a daughter of unknown name who married William, lord of la Ferté-Macé.
Hugh D. Brown, Irish Association Baptist author, pastor-teacher, politician and President of the Irish Baptist Association
-- pronunciation? -->(August 15, 1897 – November 20, 1976) was an American stockbroker and lawyer who became the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (wife of President John F. Kennedy) and Caroline Lee Bouvier
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On June 21, 1942, he married Janet Lee Bouvier, who was already mother of future First Lady Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier and Caroline Lee Bouvier.
Hugh Dunlop Brown was an author, pastor-teacher of Harcourt Street Baptist Church, significant politician in the Irish Unionist Alliance, President of the Irish Baptist Association in 1887 and theologian associated with Charles Spurgeon.
Upon leaving government, MacPhie joined the communications firm Navigator Limited, where he worked with prominent leaders in the Canadian public affairs community, including Jaime Watt, Greg Lyle, Stewart Braddick, Hugh McFadyen, and Warren Kinsella.
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An Honours Business graduate from Wilfrid Laurier University, MacPhie also studied Group Dynamics, sociology, and film at the Université de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France.
He was born Jean-Charles Digé at Forillon, Avranches, France around 1736 and was trained from an early age as a mariner.
About 1039 he became the master of the cathedral school at Avranches, where he taught for three years with conspicuous success.
Jackie's mother Janet, following the death of her second husband Hugh D. Auchincloss, was to marry childhood friend Bingham Morris on October 29, 1979 and move to Southampton.
After the Norman conquest the manor of Markeaton which had been held by the Anglo-Saxon Siward, the Fairbairn Earl of Northumbria, was given to Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, along with chevinetum, Mackworth and Allestree.
In January 1916 she was deeply depressed by grief over the death of George Musgrove, until she was persuaded by Hugh Donald McIntosh to take up work again in a condensed version of Sweet Nell at the Tivoli Theatre.
Nomaï, S.A. was a computer storage products manufacturer, based in Avranches, France.
From June 1944 he led his regiment in Normandy, and distinguished himself in the fighting in the Avranches area and the breakout from Falaise (Falaise Pocket) for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross.
Pyral was originally based in Créteil, France, but moved to the Avranches location in 1985.
F.F.F., styled as a "mystery musical comedy", underwritten by Hugh D. McIntosh and devised by promoter-businessman C. J. De Garis who also wrote the lyrics to music by Stoneham, starring Maggie Moore, Rex London, Minnie Love, Billy Rego, Hugh Steyne, Marie Le Varre and Charles H. Workman.
Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (1094 – 25 November 1120) was the son of Hugh, 1st Earl of Chester and Ermentrude of Clermont.
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The earldom then passed through his father Hugh's sister Maud to Richard's first cousin Ranulph I, in 1121.
With the other bishops and abbots of Normandy, he attended the ceremony at Avranches of the absolution of King Henry II for the murder of Thomas Becket.
Baron Hamon de Mascey, whose family came from the settlement of Mascey near Avranches, Normandy, established Birkenhead Priory in 1150.
Fabio Brulart de Sillery (1655-1714), French churchman, bishop of Avranches and bishop of Soissons
On 6 June 1944 (D-Day), Kriegsberichter Sassen was at the front in Normandy reporting the battles around Caen, Bayeux, Saint-Lô, Avranches, Falaise and Lisieux.
His title was held by his son William, until he died, childless, in 1224, when it was passed to William's youngest son Hugh.