Radulphus FitzEustace de Monthault IV Baron of Monte Alto Hereditary Steward of Earl of Chester

• Preferred Name: Radulphus FitzEustace de Monthault IV Baron of Monte Alto Hereditary Steward of Earl of Chester^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 4th Baron of Chester in Chester, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.1938 LONG: E2.8921
  
• FSID: GM7C-6X1
  
• Birth: 1057 in Monthault, Fougères-Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France at LATI: N8.511 LONG: E1.1808
  
• Dapifer+to+the+Earl+of+Chester: with note: Description: dapifer (plural dapifers) (historical) The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal. The official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household. The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court. Wiktionary - French term for sewer/servant
  
• Death: ABT 1141 in Hawarden Castle, Hawarden, Hawarden, Flint, Wales, United Kingdom
  
• Notes:

  === Assumed his surname from chief place of ===
  Assumed his surname from chief place of residence, an eleva tion in the co. of Flint, where he erected a castle. Was s teward to the Earl of Chester & one of his barons. --------- Maude/Monhault (both names being variations of Montalt, its elf referring to the hill of Mold, Flintshire, from which t he family took on of its titles in the form of Montalt whe n ennobled). [Burke's Peerage, p. 1342, on Constantine Mau de, ancestor of the Viscounts of Hawarden, Tipperary, and d escendant of the Mohauts] Other names are Mohaut, Monte Alto, and Mowat (Scotland), a s well as Maude and Monhault above. Click here for Photo of Hawarden/Montalt Castle (use browser bac k arrow to return)
  
  === Erected Montalt Castle. ===
  Erected Montalt Castle.
  
  === !Ranulfo Dapifero alias Radulfus frater ===
  !Ranulfo Dapifero alias Radulfus frater Hug' A.D. 1092, donor to St. Werburg's Abbey, Chester (SEE pgs. 12, 18, and 19). Seneschal of the Palatinate.
  
  !Ranulfo Dapifero alias Radulfus frater Hug' A.D. 1092, donor to St. Werburg's Abbey, Chester (SEE pgs. 12, 18, and 19). Seneschal of the Palatinate.
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.34, 35, 41;

1. Robert FitzRalph de Mohaut, b. 1118 in Mold Castle, Mold, Mold, Flint, Wales, United Kingdom     d. BET 1166 AND 1173 in Mold Castle, Mold, Mold, Flint, Wales, United Kingdom

1. Title: Geni - Ralph de Monthault
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Ralph-De-Monte-Alto-4th-Baron-of-Chester/6000000006167953270?through=6000000034009413496;