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William FitzRalph
- Preferred Name: William FitzRalph[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Gender: M
- Death: 1200 in England
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baron
- Birth: 1135 in Ockbrook, Derbyshire, England at LATI: N2.92 LONG: E1.3723
- FSID: G3LC-NPL
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
William FitzRalph, Seneschal of Normandy, Sheriff of Nottingham & Derbyshire 1169-81
s/o Ralph FitzGermund & Hawsie
b- abt 1135 - Ockbrook, Derbyshire, England
m -Edelina
d- 1200 -
held - Eggington, Derbyshire - he gave it to his nephew William Grendon
Held - Ockbrook, Derbyshire
no date - Derbyshire - WILLIAM FitzRalph -to- Serlo Grendon - of his wood of Ockbrook, named Little Haye, near Park of Thomas Bardolf, with liberty to enclose same
1180 - Derby- Pipe Roll - WILLIAM FitzRalph, Serlo Grendon - for enclosing a park at Clipson - overseer . William FitzWalkelyn
Preferred Parents:
Father: Ralph Fitz Geremund, b. 1110 in Ockbrook, Derbyshire, England d. AFT 1166 in Ockbrook, Derbyshire, England
Mother: Hawise Ockbrook, b. 1112 in Ockbrook, Derbyshire, England d. AFT 1166 in Ockbrook, Derbyshire, England
Family 1: Edelina , b. ABT 1136
- Edelina FitzWilliam, b. in Ockbrook, Derbyshire, England
Sources:
- Title: Book - Dale & its Abbey Derbyshire
- Title: Book - Feudal History of Derby
- Title: Sheriff of Nottingham and Seneschal of Normandy
Publication: Name: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2300-1/dissemination/pdf/061/DAJ_v061_1940_001-011.pdf;
Note: ...Ralph f. Geremund had died, leaving as his son and heir William f. Ralph, who first occurs in the Pipe Roll for 1165/6. From 1168 to 1170 he was sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, Serlo de Grendon, his brother-in-law, acting as his deputy from 1177-1180. He was,indeed, an important royal official, going on circuit as justice itinerant in 1174 and the two following years, and frequently attending upon the king, many of whose charters he attests during the years 1170-1180. In 1178 he succeeded Richard, Bishop of Worcester, as seneschal of Normandy, a post he retained for the next ten years...
- Title: British History Online
- Title: daughter Matilda married Geoffrey
Publication: Name: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2300-1/dissemination/pdf/061/DAJ_v061_1940_001-011.pdf;
Note: ...William f. Ralph had purchased the vill and park of Stanley ... and when his daughter Matilda married her second husband Geoffrey de Salicosa Mara,...
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