Ralph Herefordshire 
Ralph was born in 1033 in MANTES,FRANCE.1 Ralph's father was Dreux (Drogo) Count of Amiens & Vexin and his mother was Goda (Godgifu) Princess Of England England. His paternal grandparents were Walter II Count of Valois & Amiens & Vexin and Adele de Senlis; his maternal grandparents were Ethelred II King England and Emma Princess Of Normandy. He had a sister named Adele de. He was the younger of the two children. He died at the age of 24 on December 21st, 1057 in ENG.2 General Notes
Ralph, described by contemporaries as "Comes" [Earl], possibly a courtier of comital rank but without a territorial earldom, at any rate in England, for he was French, to support the dignity, but also possibly Earl of Worcester or conceivably Hereford (he was employed at a high level against a Welsh incursion into England and revolts by various earls throughout the 1050s, though on one occasion he and his soldiers ran away before fighting even began); and/or even the East Midlands; held Sudeley and Toddington, Glos, and Chilvers Cotton, Warwicks; married Getha, and died 21 Dec 1057. [Burke's Peerage]
Note: The Plantagenet Ancestry calls him Earl of Hereford.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0944 in Vexin,Seine Inferieure,Normandy,France d.Bet 1017 and 1024 in Castle at Crespy,Valois now Oise,Picardy,France
- b.~ 0845 in Of,,Anjou,France d.~ 0893 in St Martin,Tours,Indre-et-Loire,France
- b.~ 0870 in Anjou France d.0938
- b.~ 0844 in Of,Tours,,France
- b.~ 0924 in Of,Vexin,Normandy,France
- b.~ 0844
- b.~ 0870 in Of,,,France
- b.~ 0848 in Loches,France
- b.~ 0990 in Mantes-la-Jolie,Yvelines,Ile-de-France,France d.01 Jul 1035 in While on pilgrimage to Holy Land
- b.~ 0842 in Vermandois,Normandy,France d.Aft 28 Jan 892 in Senlis,Oise,Picardy,France
- b.~ 0876 in Vermandois,Normandy,France d.~ 0922 in Senlis,Oise,Picardy,France
- b.0919 in Somme,France d.> 0965 in Senlis,Oise,Picardy,France
- b.~ 0954 in Isle de France,France
- b.1033 in MANTES,FRANCE d.21 Dec 1057 in ENG
- b.~ 0871 in ,Wessex,England d.0924 in Farrington,Berkshire,England
- b.~ 0922 in ,,Wessex,England d.26 May 946 in Battle
- b.~ 0878 in Wessex,England d.0920 in England
- b.0943 in the Peaceful 2nd husband d.8 Jul 976 in king 959-975
- b.~ 0968 in Unready Wessex England d.23 Apr 1016 in London England
- b.~ 0758 in Wessex,England d.0786
- b.~ 0755 in Of,,Wessex,England d.4 Feb 838/839 in ,,Wessex,England
- b.~ 0762 in Wessex,England
- b.0945 in Devon,Devonshire,England d.1002
- b.~ 0730 in Autun,France d.0793 in Toulouse,France
- b.0762 in Wessex,England d.0858 in England
- b.0732 in France d.Deceased
- b.1004 in Essex,Cambridgeshire,England d.1055 in England - burial Brackley,Aberdeenshire,Scotland
- b.0860 in Maer,Nord-Trondelag,Norway d.0931 in Notre Dame,Rouen,Seine-Maritime,France
- b.~ 0893 in Normandy,France d.17 Dec 942 in Picardy,France
- b.~ 0872 in Evreux,Normandy,Fr d.> 0925 in Normandy - Wife of Rollo the Viking
- b.28 Aug 933 in Faecamp Normandy d.20 Nov 996 in Faecamp Normandy
- b.~ 0880 in Senlis,Oise,Picardy,France d.~ 0912
- b.~ 0878 in Bretagne,France d.< 0940
- b.~ 0982 in Of,,Normandie d.06 Mar 1052 in ,Winchester,Hampshire,England
- b.0860 in in Danmark d.0945 in in Gormshoj,Jellinge,Vejle,Danmark
- b.Bet. 885 - 914 in Denmark d.Bet. 955 - 1000 in Jomsborg,Denmark
- b.0865 d.0935
- b.~ 0946 in ,,Normandy,France d.1031 in ,,,France
- b.~ 0885 in Of,,,Sweden
- b.~ 0905 in ,,,Sweden d.1000 in Y
- b.~ 0886 in Of,Uppsala,Uppsala,Sweden
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Ralph were married in a religious ceremony about 1055.
They had two sons named Harold , Baron and Ralph.
1 anc.regfilmer.FTW
2 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 235-21
Further sources/citations:
The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968 @ 141, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 2757
2 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 @ 235-21
Further sources/citations:
The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968 @ 141, Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 2757
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