Ralph the Staller

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Ralph the Staller (or Radulf stalre (meaning Ralph the Constable), otherwise Ralph the Englishman) (c. 1011-1068), Earl of Norfolk was a landowner in both Anglo-Saxon and post-Conquest England.

He is said to have been born in Norfolk, of Breton parentage. He survived the Conquest of 1066 and rose in the favour of William the Conqueror, who made him Earl of Norfolk. He married and had several children, including his heir, Ralph de Guader.