Sir Ralph de Gorges Knight of Litton & Wraxall

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 59:32, Sir Ralph de Gorges is given as father of Eleanor, wife of John Mautravers, both John and Eleanor were the parents of John Mautravers who married Milicent de Berkeley. ¹⁶⁰

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VI, (Gorges), p. 9, Sir Ralph de Gorges was married to Ellen, daughter and coheir of Ives de Moreville. ¹⁴¹

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁸¹⁴
Ralph de Gorges was the governor of Shireburne and Exeter castes, as well as sheriff of the county of Devon, during the reign of Henry III. He had a writ of summons to parliament called by the King to meet in London in 45 Henry III, after which time he died, 56 henry III. He married Elena, daughter of John de Morville, and with his marriage, he acquired the manor of Wraxhall.

~Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol. I

• Background Information. ⁵³⁵
Ralph de Gorges, who flourished in the time of Henry III, was governor of the castles of Sherburne and Exeter. He had a military summons to the war in Wales in the 54^th of the same king's reighn. He attended Prince Edward to the Holy Land, and died two years later.

~ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland, 1841 Edition, p. 222

Ralph married Alianore de Morville, daughter of Ives de Moreville Lord of Bradpole and Unknown.