Cecily de Rumilly

  General Notes:

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Chart, "Lisle of Rougemont & Lisle of Kinston), Vol. VIII, between pages 48 & 49, William de Meschin, son-in-law of Robert de Romelli, lord of Harewood, and the brother of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, was married to Cicely and they were the parents of Avice or Amice de Rumelli, a.k.a. Avice de Meschines ¹⁴¹

Dictionary of National Biography in the article on his brother, Randulf le Meschin, Earl of Chester, William received a fief in Lindsey. He aquired the honor of Skipton in Yorkshire by his marriage with Cecilia.

~Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 40:24, 132B:26, Given as the father of Alice de Rumily who married William Fitz Duncan and Cecily de Rumily who married William de Meschines ¹⁶⁰

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 40:24-5, Amabel Fitz William, heiress of Copeland & Egremont, Cumberland, married Reynold de Lucy. Amabel was the daughter of William Fitz Duncan and Alice de Rumilly, daughter and coheir of William le Meschin. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Cecily de Rumilly.
William Fitz Ranulf le Meschines married Cecily de Rumily, daughter and heir of Robert de Rumily. "Willielmus de Meschines et Cecilia uxor mea" founded Bolton Priory by undated charter [Dugdale Monasticon VI, Bolton Priory, Yorkshire, II, p. 203]. "Cecilia de Romeli" donated property to Bolton Priory by undated charter which names "gener meus Willielmus nepos regis Scotiæ Duncani" [Dugdale Monasticon VI, Bolton Priory, Yorkshire, III, p. 203]. "Willielmus filius Ranulphi" confirmed the foundation of St Bee's priory, Cumberland by undated charter, dated to (1105/20), which refers to donations by himself and "uxoris meæ Ceciliæ…concessione Ranulphi filii mei" [Dugdale Monasticon III, St. Bee's Priory, Cumberland, III, p. 577].

Cecily married William le Meschin, son of Ranulf vicomte du Bessin and Margaret d’Avranches.¹⁴¹ (William le Meschines died in 1130.)