Lucy of Bolingbroke
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Lucy of Bolingbroke was a great Lincolnshire heiress who was married three times, the last to Ranulf le Meschin, Earl of Chester. Her own parentage is one of the celebrated puzzles of Anglo-Norman genealogy and has never been settled.
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✓ DOCUMENTED as wife (web-confirmed 25 Jul 2026): LUCY, Countess of Chester, heiress of Bolingbroke and Spalding (d. c.1138); wife successively of Ivo Taillebois, Roger FitzGerold and Ranulf le Meschin. Mother of Adeliz of Chester and Ranulf de Gernon (our line). *** HER OWN PARENTAGE IS FAMOUSLY DISPUTED (Taillebois / Thorold of Lincoln / Malet theories) - FRONTIER CLOSED as UNRECOVERABLE (not a pending task): the competing accounts cannot be adjudicated on surviving evidence, so her ancestry is left permanently note-only. Direct ancestress. Added 25 Jul 2026.