De GAEL, Earl Of Norfolk, Ralph

Birth Name De GAEL, Earl Of Norfolk, Ralph 1a
Gramps ID I25477
Gender male
Age at Death more than about 59 years

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E25640] before 1011 Montfort Castle, Halnault  
1b
Death [E25641] about 1070    
1c
Burial [E25642]   Peterborough  
1d

Families

    Family of De GAEL, Earl Of Norfolk, Ralph and , Getha [F11453]
Unknown Partner , Getha [I25478] ( * + ... )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
De GAEL De MONTFORT, Earl Of Norfolk, Ralph [I25474]1040after 1096

Narrative

[MARSHALL.FTW]

SOURCE NOTES:
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great
Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Gloucester: A
Sutton, 1982.

Holloway, Naomi D, The Genealogy of Mary Wentworth, Who Became the Wife of
William Brewster, Revised Edition, October 1969. LDS Film#1738313 item#5

Watney, Vernon James, The Wallop Family and their Ancestry, Oxford:John
Johnson, 1928. LDS Film#1696491 items 6-9.

Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, 6th Edition,
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1988.
RESEARCH NOTES:
Earl of Norfolk [Ref: CP IX p568, Holloway pa4] 1st Earl of Norfolk,
Suffolk, and Cambridge, Lord of Gael and Montfort, in Brittany [Ref: Weis AR
#53]

although said to have been an Englishman born in Norfolk, was more
probably a Breton, or possibly of mixed English and Breton parentage. [Ref: CP
IX p568]

1031-2: attested charters of Alan, Duke of Brittany [Ref: CP IX p568]

1060: attests charter of the Confessor as "dapifer" [Ref: CP IX p568]

1060-6: attests a charter of Abbot Aelfwig as "steallere" [Ref: CP IX p568]

numerous passages in Domesday Book in which he is styled "stalra" or "stalre"
The great survey proves that he held extensive estates in Norfolk, Suffolk,
and Lincoln, and one estate in Cornwall, whether wholly by grant from the
Crown or partly by inheritance or by marriage to an English heiress, in
uncertain. It is probable that he was also in possession, either by
inheritance or marriage, of the barony of Gael in Brittany, from which his
son took his name. [Ref: CP IX p568]
SOURCE NOTES:
date: prob before 1011 [Ref: CP IX p568], place: [Ref: Holloway pa4]
RESEARCH NOTES:
parents: Dreux Count of Vexin & Goda [Ref: Watney #427]
SOURCE NOTES:
date: living 1068, definitely died before Apr 1070 [Ref: CP IX p568]
RESEARCH NOTES:
date: Dec 21 1057 [Ref: Watney #427]
SOURCE NOTES:
place: [Ref: Watney #427]

Attributes

Type Value Notes Sources
AFN AR:53-25sff, V9SX-RS
 

Pedigree

    1. De GAEL, Earl Of Norfolk, Ralph
      1. , Getha [I25478]
        1. De GAEL De MONTFORT, Earl Of Norfolk, Ralph [I25474]

Source References

  1. MARSHALL.FTW [S346124]
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