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Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester


 

Ranulf II, inherited his palatine earldom in 1128, upon the death of his father, aged 28.

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In 1131 Ranulf founded the North Welsh Cistercian Abbey , which was colonised by monks from the Norman house called Savigny.

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