Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester
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Hugh d'Avranches, nicknamed le Gros or Lupus, was from 1071 the second Norman Earl of Chester and one of the great magnates of early Norman England.
Plaque commemorating Hugh d'Avranches in Avranches, Normandy
"Hugh Lupus, Earle of Chester, sitting in his parliament with the barons and abbots of that Countie Palatine". Post-1656 engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar
Equestrian statue of Hugh Lupus hawking on horseback, at Eaton Hall in Cheshire, sculpted by George Frederick Watts (1817–1904)
Cheshire
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Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shropshire to the south; to the west it is bordered by the Welsh counties of Flintshire and Wrexham, and has a short coastline on the Dee Estuary. Warrington is the largest settlement, and the city of Chester is the county town.
Image: The view north west from Beeston Castle geograph.org.uk 4547395 (edited, cropped)
Image: Little Moreton Hall geograph.org.uk 3625859
The Cheshire Plain from the Mid-Cheshire Ridge.
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