Earl in East Anglia
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Keats-Rohan (2016, p. 62) estimates between 1030 and 1040.
Date of Death: between 1097 and 1099.
The date is given by Williams (ODNB).
Place of Death: on Crusade.
Relationships
Father: Ralph the Staller, earl of East Anglia.
This relationship is given by Williams (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (2002, p. 1119), and by van Houts (p. 262).
Mother: unknown.
Ralph’s wife was Breton. (Williams ODNB) and by van Houts (p. 262).
Spouse: Emma, daughter of William fitz Osbern. Married 1075.
This relationship is given by Williams (ODNB) and by van Houts (p. 262).
Children:
William de Gael.
Alain de Gael.
References
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine. “Raoul l’Anglais et Raoul de Gaël: un réexamen des donnes anglaises et bretonnes” in Mémoires de la Société d’Histoire et d’Archéologie de Bretagne 94 (2016), pp. 61-93.
Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).
Van Houts, Elisabeth. “Intermarriage in Eleventh-Century England” in Normandy and Its Neighbours, 900-1250 (Belgium: Brepols, 2011), pp. 237-270.
Williams, Ann.”Ralph, earl (d. 1097 x9)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).