Title: High Sheriff of Lancaster
Name: Randulph de Blundevill, Earl of Chester
Herald date: 1216-1222
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Appointed Lord of the County by John following the rebellion of his kinsman Gilbert Fitzreinfrid in 1215. Through marriage to Constance de Bretagne in 1188 he became Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond. John raised him to the earldom of Lincoln in 1216.
Earlier in his career he had taken part in the Fifth Crusade, and his name is mentioned in Piers Plowman with reference to Robin Hood. He died without issue.
