Ralph Paynel

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: after 1129.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Fulk Paynel. Died between 1130 and 1138.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 1057) and by Sanders (p. 113).

(possible) Mother: Beatrix, daughter of William fitz Ansculf.

This relationship is given by Sanders (p. 113). Grazebrook (p. 6) asserts, "It has, however, been suggested, and I think with great probability, that Paganel acquired his interest by marriage with Fitz Ansculph's heiress." He also states, "Glover also makes Fulke, of Dudley, a son of Ralph of Drax, and adds that his wife's name was Beatrice -- who by some genealogists is made the daughter and heiress of Fitz Ansculph." Keats-Rohan (p. 1055) states that Fulk “probably” acquired William’s land through marriage to William’s heiress. She is not certain that the heiress was William’s daughter.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

Gervase Paynel married Isabel de Beaumont.

Hawise Paynel married (1) John de Somery; married (2) Roger de Berkeley.

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. Fulk Paynell, 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).

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).

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

Sanders, Ivor John. English Baronies (Oxford: 1960).