Also known as Ralph the Timid, Ralph of Dreux, and Ralph of Mantes.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 21 December 1057.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (6:447).
Place of Burial: Peterborough Abbey.
The place is given by the Complete Peerage (6:447).
Relationships
Father: Dreux, count of the Vexin.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:446) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 245).
Mother: Gode, sister of Edward the Confessor.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:446) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 245).
Spouse: Gytha.
This relationship is given by van Houts (p. 263) and byTanner.
Children:
References
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).
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Volume 1: Domesday Book (The Boydell Press: 1999).
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.