Ralph de Gael The Staller Earl of Suffolk and Norfolk

• Preferred Name: Ralph de Gael The Staller Earl of Suffolk and Norfolk^{[1] [2]}
  
• Alternate Name: Ralph I
  
• Alternate Name: Ralph the Staller
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: MKKN-R3H
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Earl of Suffolk
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Earl of Norfolk
  
• Birth: ABT 1011 in Bretagne, France at LATI: N8.3185 LONG: E2.9377
  
• Death: 21 DEC 1096
  
• Burial: 1096
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  
  RALPH "the Staller" ([before 1011]-1069).
  He may have been "Radulphus Anglicus" who witnessed charters of Alain Duke of Brittany in [1031/32]. As "dapifer", he witnessed a charter of King Edward "the Confessor" in 1060. He was one of the Royal "Stallers". The Chronicon Centulense records that "un noble, breton d’origine…Raoul, qui jouissait d’un grand crédit et de grands honneurs auprès de" Edward the Confessor donated revenue to Saint-Riquier[868]. He held extensive estates in Norfolk and Suffolk, although it is uncertain whether this was by royal grant or by inheritance from his wife's family. Seigneur de Gaël, in Brittany. William I King of England created him Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1067[869]. The Chronicon Centulense records a charter under which King William I confirmed donations to Saint-Riquier made by "le comte Raoul et Raoul son fils"[870].
  
  m ---. The name of Ralph’s wife is not known. The Complete Peerage suggests that she was the sister of Godwin, a landowner in Norfolk[871].
  
  Earl Ralph & his wife had two children:
  
  a) RALPH (before 1040-on crusade after 1096). The Chronicon Centulense records a charter under which King William I confirmed donations to Saint-Riquier made by "le comte Raoul et Raoul son fils"[872]. Earl of Norfolk: Orderic Vitalis records that King William I granted "comitatum Northwici" to "Radulfo de Guader genero Guillelmi filii Osberni"[873]. Florence of Worcester records that "Herefordensis comes Rogerus filius Willelmi…East-Anglorum comiti Radulfo" conspired against King William in [1074][874].
  
  The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that he escaped to Denmark in search of help, returning with 200 ships under Knud, son of King Svend, and Jarl Hakon but that they left for Flanders before joining battle[875]. Orderic Vitalis records that he was deprived of all his lands and his earldom in England and eventually retired to Brittany, where he was Seigneur de Gaël[876]. Florence of Worcester records that he and his wife accompanied Robert Duke of Normandy on the First Crusade, in the course of which they both died[877].
  
  m (Exning, Cambridgeshire 1075[878]) EMMA of Hereford, daughter of WILLIAM FitzOsbern Earl of Hereford & his first wife Adelise de Tosny (-after 1096). Guillaume of Jumièges records that “Willelmo Osberni filio” and his wife “Adelizam Rogerii Toenitæ filiam” had “unam filiam” who married “Rodulfo comite genere Britoni” with whom she went to Jerusalem on pilgrimage “in diebus Urbani Papæ”[879].
  
  Orderic Vitalis records that King William I granted "comitatum Northwici" to "Radulfo de Guader genero Guillelmi filii Osberni"[880]. Florence of Worcester records that her brother "Herefordensis comes Rogerus filius Willelmi" arranged her marriage to "East-Anglorum comiti Radulfo" against the wishes of King William in [1074][881].
  
  She held her husband's castle during his rebellion in 1075, but was given safe conduct to leave England[882].
  
  Florence of Worcester records that Ralph and his wife accompanied Robert Duke of Normandy on the First Crusade, in the course of which they both died[883].
  
  b) HARDOUIN (-after 1066). Domesday Book records “Hardwin the brother of Earl Ralph” taking away land in Coddenham Suffolk in the time of King William[892].
  
  Ralph de Gael
  Ralph de Gaël (otherwise Ralph de Guader, Radulf Waders or Ralph Wader) (before 1042 – c. 1096) was the Earl of East Anglia (Norfolk and Suffolk) and Lord of Gaël and Montfort (Seigneur de Gaël et Mon

• m. ABT 1038 in Norfolk, England

1. Ralph de Gaël II, b. ABT 1039 in Gaël, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, Angevin Empire     d. ABT 1096 in On the way to Palestine for the First Crusade

1. Title: Wikipedia
   Author: Williams, Ann (2008). The World Before Domesday: The English Aristocracy, 900-1066. London: Continuum. Williams, Ann (2004). "Ralph the Staller, earl of East Anglia (d. 1068x70)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52354. Retrieved 5 April 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Williams, Ann (1995). The English and the Norman Conquest. Woodbridge: Boydell.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_the_Staller;
   Note: Ralph the Staller (or Radulf Stalre) (c. 1011 – 1068) was a landowner in both Anglo-Saxon and post-Conquest England. He is said to have been born in Norfolk of Breton parentage. He held the military post of staller, roughly equivalent to the continental constable, under King Edward the Confessor. He survived the Conquest of 1066 and gained the favour of William the Conqueror, who made him Earl of East Anglia. He married and had several children, including his heir, Ralph Guader, who succeeded to his earldom.
   
2. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc56410519;
   Note: A. EARLS of NORFOLK 1067-1075 (BARONS de GAËL) Two siblings: 1. RALPH "the Staller" ([before 1011]-1069). He may have been "Radulphus Anglicus" who witnessed charters of Alain Duke of Brittany in [1031/32]. As "dapifer", he witnessed a charter of King Edward "the Confessor" in 1060. He was one of the Royal "Stallers". The Chronicon Centulense records that "un noble, breton d’origine…Raoul, qui jouissait d’un grand crédit et de grands honneurs auprès de" Edward the Confessor donated revenue to Saint-Riquier[869]. He held extensive estates in Norfolk and Suffolk, although it is uncertain whether this was by royal grant or by inheritance from his wife's family. Seigneur de Gaël, in Brittany. William I King of England created him Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1067[870]. The Chronicon Centulense records a charter under which King William I confirmed donations to Saint-Riquier made by "le comte Raoul et Raoul son fils"[871]. m ---. The name of Ralph’s wife is not known. The Complete Peerage suggests that she was the sister of Godwin, a landowner in Norfolk[872]. Earl Ralph & his wife had two children: a) RALPH (before 1040-on crusade after 1096). b) HARDOUIN (-after 1066). Domesday Book records “Hardwin the brother of Earl Ralph” taking away land in Coddenham Suffolk in the time of King William[893].