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Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester

Anglo-Norman baron born in Wales · Lived 1170 to 1232 · aged 62

Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester and 1st Earl of Lincoln, known in some references as the 4th Earl of Chester, was one of the "old school" of Anglo-Norman barons whose loyalty to the Angevin dynasty was consistent but contingent on the receipt of lucrative favours.

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He has been described as "almost the last relic of the great feudal aristocracy of the Conquest".

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Lived 1170 to 1232 · aged 62