RALPH DE SUDELEY, of age 1135, d. 1192, held 3 knight's fees 1166 (brother of William de Tracy of Toddington, ancestor of the Viscounts Tracy); m. Emma, dau. of William I de Beauchamp, d. 1170, of Elmley, co. Worcester, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of William de Braiose, d. ca. 1192-3, of Bramber, Sussex, by his wife BERTHA of HEREFORD (177-5). (Authorities as before: Emma Mason, ed., 'The Beachamp Cartulary Charters 110-1268', pub. 1980 as Publ. Pipe Roll Soc., n.s., vol. 43, chart p. Iviii). [Ancestral Roots]
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Ralph de Sudeley, in the 12th Henry II [1166], certified his knights' fees to be in number, four. He was the founder of the priory of Erdburie. He m. Emme, dau. of William de Beauchamp, of Elmley, and was s. by his son, Otwell de Sudeley. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 520, Sudeley, Barons Sudeley]