Ancestral Trails 2016 » RALPH de LIMESI I (1056-1093)

Personal data RALPH de LIMESI I 

• He was born between 1040 and 1056 in Limésy, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.
• Title: Baron of Wolveley, Warwickshire
• (Alternative Name) : Radulfus de Linesi.
• (Relationship) : 31st Great Grandfather.
• (Event Date) in the year 1066 in Fought at Battle of Hastings.
• He died in the year 1093 in Cavendish, Suffolk.
• A child of HUGH de LIMESI and SISTER OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

Household of RALPH de LIMESI I

(1) He had a relationship with MARIA FITZOSBERN.

Child(ren):

1. MAUD de LIMESI  1082-1138 
2. RALPH de LIMESI  1067-1129 

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He is married to Christina Atheling of WESSEX.

They got married about 1086.

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about RALPH de LIMESI I

RADULFUS or RALPH DE LIMESI, born about 1040, of Normandy, France:

"Radulfus or Ralph de Limesi, son of Hugo de Limesi (1); b. about 1040 in Normandy; he was also called Radulfus de Limesi in 1086. He came with the Conqueror into England and fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Whether he married 1st or 2d, Maria daughter of William Fitz Osborn, Earl of Hereford, and sister of Roger, Earl of Hereford, or Christina, sister of Prince Edgar Athleing, cannot be exactly determined. The probabilities are that he married both, Maria being his first wife."

"The Princess Christina was born in Hungary, and after the battle of Hastings went with her family into Scotland in 1068-69, when her sister Margaret married King Malcolm of Scotland, she was then in all probability not a nun, and certainly not the wife of Ralph de Limesi.

But Christina was back again in England and held land in the Domesday Survey in 1086, from which it can be argued that she was not a nun at that time, so that she could be the second wife of Ralph de Limesi who exercised control over her real estate by making gifts of a portion of it to the Priory of Hertford between 1087-1093.

Ralph de Limesi had for arms: Gules, three eagles displayed, or; which was very unusual for so early a period, except for members of royalty. The charters by Ralph de Limesi and his descendants to the Priory of Hertford indicate the authentic genealogy of his family in England, and are interesting relics of the customs of their times."

"His [Hugo de Limesi] son Ralph [de Limesi] was certainly of full age when he fought at Hastings, and also of sufficient age to be one of the leading knights under King William, the twenty six years of age assigned to Ralph in 1066 seem proper to account for the circumstances surrounding him at that time; no record exists of his marriage in Normandy, or that he had any issue in that country."

His descendants can now be linked up with the following dates: his son and heir Ralph de Limesi 2 who married Hawisia could be born about 1067, his grandson Alan born about 1095, and his great-grandson Gerard born 1120-1125, which last date is about right when compared with the age of said Gerard's wife Amicia, who was born 1125. The interval of twenty-eight years, or even as much as thirty, would be none too large for a line of exclusive male succession, when the possibility of the existence of elder deceased sons, or the births of daughters, is taken under consideration."
SOURCE: "The Lindeseie and Limesi Families of Great Britain, Including the Probates at Sumerset House, London, England, of all Spellings of the Name Lindeseie from 1300-1800, Volume 1", was "privately printed" in "Boston, Massachusetts" by "John William Linzee, A.B., S.B
https://sites.google.com/view/brough-family-organization/eng-staffordshire/de-limesi


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