Ralph de Gael
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Ralph de Gaël was the Earl of East Anglia and Lord of Gaël and Montfort. He was the leading figure in the Revolt of the Earls, the last serious revolt against William the Conqueror.
The Siege of Norwich Castle
Bayeux Tapestry Scene 18a
Norwich Castle keep, 2009
Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria Croyland Abbey
Ralph the Staller
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Ralph the Staller or Ralf the Englishman, 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 th
Ralph de Gael
…He was the high-born son of an Earl Ralph who was English, or born in England, and lived at the time of the Confessor. Some sources believe this to be Ralph the Staller, while others argue that he was the son of Earl Ralph Mantes of Hereford, and who briefly held the Earldom of East Anglia. Both English and French…
St Benet's Abbey, Norfolk
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