Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: between Michaelmas 1210 and Michaelmas 1211.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (12:1:111).
Relationships
Father: John de Somery.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12:1:110) and by the VCH of Worcester (3: sub Dudley).
Mother: Hawise Paynel.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12:1:110) and by the VCH of Worcester (3: sub Dudley).
Spouse: Margaret, daughter of William Crassus, lord of Chipping Sodbury.
This relationship is given by Cawley, who argues that the Complete Peerage (12:1:110) is incorrect when it identifies her as the daughter of John fitz Gilbert.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)
Ralph de Somery (died 1220) married Ida de Longespee.
William Perceval de Somery (died before 20 June 1222).
Joan de Somery married Thomas de Berkeley.
Isabel de Somery married Alan de Englefield.
Evidence
From the Buckinghamshire Pipe-Roll, 10 John.
Nova Oblata. Radulphus de Sumeri r.c. de c li. et ii. palefredis pro habendâ saisinâ villæ de Neweport quam mater sua tenuit et unde ipsa se demisit tempore Regis Ricardi et unde ipse Rex homagium suum recepit. In th’ro xxxv.li. et vi.s. et viii.d. et debet lxiiii.li. et i. marc. et ii. palefredos.
From the Berkshire Pipe-Roll, 12 John.
Nova Oblata. Margareta quæ fuit uxor Radulphi de Sumeri r.c. de ccc. marc. pro habendâ rationabili dote suâ de terrâ quæ fuit predicti Radulphi viri sui. Termini - ad festum Sancti Johannis Baptist’ anni xii. c. et 1. marc. ad festum Sancti Michælis c. et 1. marc. per plegium Willelmi Marescalli. In th’ro xi.li. et i. marc. et debet cc. et quater xx. et ii. marc. et dimid. Eadem r.c. de eodem debito. In th’ro c. et lx.li. per Willelmum de Gardino et debet xxviii.li. et dimid. marc. Eadem r.c. de eodem debito. In th’ro c.s. et viii.d. per predictum Willelmum et debet xxiii.li et vi.s. Eadem r.c. de eodem debito. In th’ro xiiii.li. et vi.s. per Vice-comitem Oxoniensem de plegio Willelmi Marescalli et debet viii.li. et x.s. Eadem r.c. de eodem debito. In th’ro lib. E.Q.E.
References
Carter, W.F. (with an appendix by G.P. Mander). “Additions to Grazebrook’s ‘The Barons of Dudley’” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire, New Series (1941) pp. 21-80.
Cawley, Charles. Ralph (II) de Somery, in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).
Collections for a History of Staffordshire 2 (The William Salt Archeological Society, 1881).
Grazebrook, H. Sidney. “The Barons of Dudley” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire 9 (ii) (1888).
Hunt, John. Lordship and the Landscape: A documentary and archaeological study of the Honor of Dudley c. 1066 - 1322. (British Archaelogical Reports, 1997).
“Parishes: Dudley,” in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3 (London, 1913). [Victoria County History]