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Ralph the Staller or Ralf the Englishman (died 1069/70) was a noble and landowner in both Anglo-Saxon and post-Conquest England. He first appears in charters from Brittany, where he was described as Ralph / Ralf the Englishman, and it was in Brittany that his son Ralph de Gaël held a large hereditary lordship.
The exact nature of his connections to England and Brittany are uncertain. Although he was clearly present in England before 1066 his name Ralph (Radulphus, Ralf, Rauf, Raoul etc.) was continental, and not English. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle contrasts him with his unnamed wife (whom it describes as a Breton), saying that he was born in Norfolk, while both the Norman writer William of Malmesbury and the chronicle of the abbey of Saint-Riquier in France (where he made a grant) describe Ralph the staller as a Breton. Modern historians such as Ann Williams have suggested that his father came to England with Emma of Normandy when she married Aethelred II in 1002. She suggest that his mother was English, thus accounting for relatives with Anglo-Saxon names, mentioned in Domesday Book.
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Abt 1020 - 1070 (50 years)