Ralph (I) de Mortimer
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: soon after 1104, or perhaps after 1115.
Place of Death: Saint-Victor-en-Caux.
The date and place are given by Keats-Rohan (p. 335). However, Ian Mortimer argues that Ralph survived beyond 1115.
Relationships
Father: Roger (I) de Mortimer, lord of St Victor-en-Caux in Normandy.
This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (1999, p. 335; 2002, p. 602), and by the Complete Peerage (9:267). Lewis suggests that “most plausibly” Roger was the son of Ralph (I) de Warenne and his wife Béatrice.
Mother: Hawise.
This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (9:267).
Spouse: Millicent.
This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 335), and by the Complete Peerage (9:268).
Spouse: Mabel.
This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 335), and by the Complete Peerage (9:268).
Children:
(Keats-Rohan (p. 335) states that Melisende was the mother of Hawise, but that it is unclear who was the mother of Hugh and William.)
William.
Hawise married Stephen, count of Aumale.
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 (1999).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Lewis, C.P. “Mortimer, Ralph (I) de (fl. c. 1080-1104)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Lewis, C.P. “Mortimer, Roger (I) de (fl. 1054-c.1080)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Mason, J.F.A. “Mortimer, Hugh (II) de (d. 1181?)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Mortimer, Ian. "The Medieval Mortimer Family: An outline lineage". Accessed 17 August 2019.
Phillips, Chris. “Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage.”