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Ralph de Martell
Dates: floruit reign of Henry II
A medieval member of the Martell family who held a knight's fee at Ardleigh of Geoffrey de Mandeville, according to the account quoted in the registry.
View historical person →Ralph de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore, tenant-in-chief in Domesday Book
Dates: Died 1104
A Norman magnate who established the Mortimer lordship centred on Wigmore and held extensive lands in the Welsh Marches after the Conquest.
View historical person →Ralph de Mortimer, Tenant-in-chief in Domesday Book
Dates: fl. 11th century
Norman landholder whose Wiltshire estates included one of the two holdings recorded at Alderton in 1086.
View historical person →Ralph de Pichford, Lord of Albrighton, holder directly of the Crown by knight-service
Dates: Died by 5 October 1252
Ralph de Pichford was a substantial thirteenth-century Shropshire landholder. Eyton records him as holding Albrighton and Ryton directly of the Crown and as possessing other estates in Shropshire…
View historical person →Ralph de Pomeroy, Norman magnate, tenant-in-chief under William I, lord of the Honor of Berry Pomeroy
Dates: died 1109
Ralph de Pomeroy was a Norman landholder who held extensive estates in England after the Norman Conquest, including Southweek in Devon in 1086. His Devon estates became associated…
View historical person →Sir Ralph de Shelton, royal official in East Anglia
Dates: 1313–1373
Ralph de Shelton was a Norfolk landholder who became a knight in 1346 after campaigning in France and was associated with Edward III and Edward the Black Prince.…
View historical person →baron Ralph de Somery, Knight
Dates: died 1216
Ralph de Somery was an English nobleman of the early thirteenth century who died in 1216.
View historical person →Ralph de Sulham
Dates: flourished twelfth century
A member of the de Sulham family who inherited the branch of the family estate containing Adwell and Sulham.
View historical person →Ralph de Tosny, Norman nobleman, standard-bearer of Duke William
Dates: died 1102
Ralph de Tosny was a Norman baron and supporter of William, Duke of Normandy, later William I of England. He held Charingworth at Domesday in 1086 and died…
View historical person →Ralph Headlam, Lord of the Manor of Nunthorpe
Lord of Nunthorpe and son of Christopher Headlam; he died in 1544, leaving William Headlam as his son and heir.
View historical person →Ralph Hussey, Lord of Albrighton Hussey, tenant in capite at Ightfield
Dates: Active 1174-1204
Elder son and successor of Walter Hussey. He appears in forest and royal records and made a documented composition concerning the chapel and ecclesiastical dues of Albright Hussey.
View historical person →Ralph Jenyns
Dates: Active in 1663; other dates not established in the sources reviewed
Ralph Jenyns is identified in Canterbury Cathedral Archives as the lessee named in a 1663 lease and counterpart concerning Agney.
View historical person →Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu
Dates: 1638–1709
English courtier and peer who became the second husband of Christopher Monck's widow and thereby succeeded to the associated estates described in the registry.
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