Ralph de Mortimer 
Ralph de was born in 1055 in Abby Nigmou, Herefordshire, England. Ralph de's father was Roger de Mortimer and his mother was Hawise de Vexin. His paternal grandparents were Rodulf (Ralph) I de Warenne and Beatrice de Vascoeuil; his maternal grandparents were Raoul III "The Great" Count of Valois & Vexin and Adele de Bar-Sur-Aube. He was an only child. He died at the age of 49 on August 5th, 1104 in Normandy, France.General Notes
Ralph de Mortimer, the presumed son of Roger de Mortimer, accompanying the Duke of Normandy in his expedition against England, was one of his principal commanders at the decisive battle of Hastings; and shortly after, as the most puissant of the victor's captains, was sent into the marches of Wales to encounter Edric, Earl of Shrewsbury, who still resisted the Norman yoke. This nobleman, after much difficulty and a long siege in his castle of Wigmore, Mortimer subdued and delivered into the king's hands, when, as a reward for his good service, he obtained a grant of all Edric's estates and seated himself thenceforward at Wigmore. Independently of these great Welsh territorial possessions, Ralph Mortimer enjoyed, by the bounty of his royal master, sundry lordships and manors in other parts of the realm which he held at the time of the general survey. In the beginning of Rufus' reign, Mortimer took part with Curthose, but he subsequently changed sides and, being constituted general of the forces sent by King Henry I to oppose that prince in Normandy, he totally routed the enemy and brought Curthose prisoner to the king. This gallant person m. Millicent, dau. of ---, by whom he had issue, Hugh, his successor; William, Lord of Chelmhersh, and afterwards of Netherby; Robert, ancestor of the Mortimers, of Richard's Castle; and Hawise, m. to Stephen, Earl of Albemarle. He was s. by his son, Hugh de Mortimer. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883, p. 382-3, Mortimer, Barons Mortimer, of Wigmore, Earls of March]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0925 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0950 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0998 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.> 1074 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0935 in France
- b.~ 0960 in France
- b.~ 1022 in Mortemer-sur-Eaulne, Normandy, France d.> 1078
- b.~ 0970 in Rouen, France
- b.~ 1004 in Rouen, France d.> 1053
- b.~ 0945 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1035
- b.~ 0987 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.0911 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0960 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0923 in Sweden
- b.1055 in Abby Nigmou, Herefordshire, England d.05 Aug 1104 in Normandy, France
- b.0919 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.BET 991 AND 998
- b.0944 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1027 in Castle at Crespy, Valois now Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 0920 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 0985 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1030
- b.0919 in Somme, France d.> 0965 in Senlis, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 0954 in Isle de France, France
- b.1010 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1074 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 0940 in Ponthieu, Somme, Picardy, France d.~ 0981
- b.0970 in Breteuil, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.0946 in Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.0992 in Breteuil, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.0948 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.0974 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1035 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.> 1086
- b.1015 in Vexin, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1043
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Children
Hawise de Mortimer
Hawise de was born about 1089 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. She died in 1189.
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