Ralph de Mainwaring Seneschal of Chester

  General Notes:

Was the chief justice - according to Cockayne's The Complete Peerage, (Audley, p. 337), Seneshal of Chester.¹⁴¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
Sir Ralph Mainwaring, son and heir of Roger de Mesnilwarin, was justice of Chester in the latter part of the reign of Henry II. Sir Ralph's wife was a daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, the Earl of Chester. His father-in-law gave him the service of three knight's fees in frank marriage. The children of Sir Ralph and his wife Amicia were:

• Sir Roger Mainwaring, son and heir
Randle Mainwaring of Great Warford
• Beatred, wife of Henry de Alditelgh (Audley), who was given Smallwood, Snelson, half of Picmere and rents in Chester in frank marriage by charter.

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol III, pp. 226 & 229

Ralph married Amicia of Kevelioc, daughter of Hugh Kevelioc Earl of Chester, Vicomté d'Avranches and Unknown, about 1188 in Warmingham, Cheshire, England.⁷¹³ (Amicia of Kevelioc was born about 1170 in Kevelioc (Cyfeiliog), Merionethshire, Wales and died in Chester, Cheshire, England.)