Ralph Paynel , Sheriff of Yorkshire 
Ralph was born in 1050 in Les Moutiers-Hubert, Normandy, France. Ralph's father was William Paynel , of Les Moutiers & Hambye and his mother was Lasceline. He had two brothers named William and Fulk. He was the second oldest of the three children. He died after 1088 in Hooton Pagnell, West Ride Yorkshire, England.General Notes
Ralph Paynel, sheriff of Yorkshire in 1088, and the refounder of Holy Trinity Priory, York, was a tenant in chief at the Domesday survey in the counties of York, Lincoln, Northampton, Gloucester, Devon and Somerset, holding nearly the whole estate of Merlesuen, who had been sheriff of co. Linoln in 1066. He was probably the son of William Paynel, who appears to have possessed Les Moutiers-Hubert in Normandy, and to have been given lands in the Cotentin by King William I in marriage as a tenancy of the Abbot of Le Mont St. Michel. To this gift was possibly added Hambye, where William son of Ralph Paynel by his 1st wife and his descendants, the Paynels of Hambye, held a tenancy in chief which continued in the male line until the 15th century. [Complete Peerage X:319]
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