Ranulph de Mortimer

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Ranulph de Mortimer (or Ralph de Mortimer) was Lord of Wigmore, Herefordshire & Seigneur of St. Victor-en-Caux in Normandy. He died after 1104. He married Millicent, whose parentage is currently unknown, and their daughter Hawise de Mortimer (d. 1109) married Stephen, Earl of Albemarle. Ranulph was a lesser marcher lord and was granted his lands in the Welsh Marches by William the Conqueror. Most notably, he acquired Wigmore Castle after William Fitz Osbers's son Roger de Breteuil joined the Revolt of the Earls. This would lead one to assume that he had been a companion of (or at least a supporter of) William.

Ranulph's son Hugh I de Mortimer rebuilt Wigmore Castle in 1135 and it remained the Mortimer family home.



Sources:
Weis, Frederick Lewis Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came To America Before 1700 (7th ed.), line 136-24
Davies, Norman The Isles: A History, p. 281

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