Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester

English noble · Lived 1047 to 1101 · aged 54

Hugh d'Avranches, nicknamed le Gros or Lupus, was from 1071 the second Norman Earl of Chester and one of the great magnates of early Norman England.

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"Hugh Lupus, Earle of Chester, sitting in his parliament with the barons and abbots of that Countie Palatine". Post-1656 engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar

Equestrian statue of Hugh Lupus hawking on horseback, at Eaton Hall in Cheshire, sculpted by George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)

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Lived 1047 to 1101 · aged 54