Count Of Amiens And The Vexin Ralph Mortimer
Abt 1055 - Abt 1114 (59 years)-
Name Ralph Mortimer Title Count Of Amiens And The Vexin Birth Abt 1055 Normandie, France 
Gender Male FSID 93QW-7B5 Death Abt 1114 Normandie, France Person ID I7847 footsteps | Ancestors Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
Father Roger Mortimer, b. Abt 1030, Normandie, France d. Bef 1086, Normandie, France (Age < 55 years) Relationship natural Mother Hawise Vexin, b. Abt 1042, Normandie, France d. Aft 1086, Herefordshire, England (Age > 45 years) Relationship natural Marriage 1054 Family ID F1695 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Millicent Ferrers, b. Abt 1055 d. Yes, date unknown Marriage 1087 Children + 1. Hawise Mortimer, b. Abt 1086, Herefordshire, England d. Yorkshire, England [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. Lord Of Wigmore Castle Hugh De Mortimer, b. 1108, Herefordshire, England d. 1189 (Age 81 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F4417 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
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His mother, Hawise, inherited land in the county of Amiens and he may h a v e b e e n named from her lord, Ralph, count of Amiens and the Vexin. In N o r m a n dy Ralph succeeded his father c.1080. William I probably gave him e x t e n s ive lands in England during his father's lifetime, as there is no e v i d e n ce that the latter was ever an English landowner.
By 1086 Ralph was in the second rank of the Anglo-Norman baronage. His p o s s e s sions in England, like those of many others, had been accumulated i n s t a g e s. The earliest major component was the Hampshire estate of the E n g l i s h thegn Cypping of Worthy, whose chief manor of Headbourne Worthy o n t h e o u t skirts of Winchester became Mortimer's capital in southern Eng la n d e v e n though it was held only on a lease of three lives (Ralph's be i n g t h e t hird) from the Old Minster at Winchester. His othe r la nds in W e s s e x i ncluded Earl Harold's large Wiltshire manor of Hullavington.