Ralph de Goushill

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Living: 1209, 1233.

Thoroton (3:sub Hoveringham) attaches a date of 10 Joh. to Ralph. Ralph is mentioned in a 1233 list of knights’ fees held of Ralph, earl of Cheshire (CCR 17 Henry III p. 264). He is also mentioned in an extent attached to the 1286 inquisition post mortem of his nephew, Peter de Goushull (CIPM, Edward I, volume 2, pp. 367-368, no. 607).

Date of Death: by 16 March 1241.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Foulds (p. cxxxviii).

Relationships

Father: Robert de Goushill (died by 1203).

This relationship is given by Thoroton (3:sub Hoveringham) and by Foulds (p. cxxxlv). Foulds suggests that Robert was possibly the son of Ralph, son of Ernisius de Gousel. Keats-Rohan (p. 883), however, states that Ralph's heir seems to have been his brother Robert. Keats-Rohan states sub Filius Ernisii de Gausa, Robert: "Robert's family are frequently confused with the family holding of the honour of Thoreway at Goxhill in Lindsey. While some relationship may have developed during the twefth century -- the families were close neighbours -- they must be carefully distinguished. Accounts such as those in EYC and, more recently, Foulds, Cart. Thurgarton -- who was led badly astray by K. Major -- are unreliable and have led to an impenetrable muddle."

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown (possibly a daughter of Hugh III of Hoveringham).

Foulds (p. cxxxviii) notes, "It has been suggested that Ralph de Gousel married an unknown daughter of Hugh III of Hoveringham and the other daughter was Hawisa who married Robert Deyncourt, for Walter I de Gousel and Robert Deyncourt shared the fees in 1242 which Hugh III of Hoveringham had held prior to that date. Hugh III of Hoveringham and Ralph de Gousel bought one bovate from Reginald son of Roger of Radcliffe-on-Trent which was the subject of a fine in 1208-9. This bovate Walter I de Gousel, his son, and his wife Matilda granted to Gerard, parson of Radcliffe."

Children:

Sir Walter de Goushill married Matilda de Hathersage.

References

Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III preserved in the Public Record Office A.D. 1231-1234 (London: H.M.Stationery Office, 1905).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume 2, Edward I, (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1906).

'Hoveringham', Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: volume 3: Republished with large additions by John Throsby (1796), pp. 61-64. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76929 Date accessed: 22 September 2014.

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

The Thurgarton Cartulary (Trevor Foulds, ed.) (Stamford, 1994).