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)

Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester

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Gerbod the Fleming, of Oosterzele, 1st Earl of Chester, was a hereditary advocate of the Abbey of Saint Bertin at Saint-Omer, County of Flanders and Earl of Chester in 1070.

Ruins of Saint-Bertin Abbey at Saint-Omer