Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Ranulf.
This relationship is recorded in a charter of Ranulf de Blondeville, earl of Chester (See below.)
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Evidence
from the Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester:
no. 271.
Ranulphus comes Cestrie constabulario, baronibus, vic[ecomiti], ministris, et ballivis, et omnibus suis fidelibus tam Anglis quam Francis, clericis et laicis, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et confirmasse Ranulpho de Mertona filio Ranulpho, hostiario fidelio meo, Mertonam cum boscis et cum omnibus aliis provenientibus ad Mertonam pertinentibus, habendam et tenendam illam tenuram sibi et heredibus suis de me et heredibus meis in feodo et hereditate libere et quiete, bene et in pace, impertuum, per servicium quod fecit patri meo et mihi postea, ad nutriendum unum cabellum mihi et heredibus meis singulis annis, quando sibi fuit missus, pro omnibus serviciis secularibus, placitis, querelis, et demandis, ita quod nullus eum implaceat inde nec implaceari permittat. Preterea concessi et confirmavi pro me et heredibus meis eidem Ranulpho et heredibus suis suum officium in domo meo esse hostiarium, cum duobus caballis et tribus bobis per annum sibi et valetto super custum meum proprium. Pro hac autem concessione et confirmacione idem Ranulphus dedit mihi in gersuma duos lepores nomine Lym et Libekar. Hiis testibus domina Bertrea comitissa, domino Radulpho Meingarin iusticiario Cestrie, domino Rogero Lasey tunce constabulario Cestrie, Roberto de [Monte Alto], domino Hamone de Mascy, domino Hugone de Spenser. Datum apud Werham.
[Barraclough dates the charter to between 1194 and 1202, and probably after 1199. He notes, “[T]here is little further information about Ranulf of Merton. He had been in the service of Earl Hugh, and was evidently an old man by the time this charter was issued; perhaps he did not survive long.]
References
Barraclough, Geoffrey. The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071 - 1237. (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 126; 1988).
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).