Ralf Fitz Osmund

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• Background Information. ¹⁰³⁶
A hide which had fallen in value from 10s. to 3s., had been previously held of the abbot by Godric, but Ralf, son of Osmund (the tenant of Aubrey de Vere in Hemingford Grey), held it in 1086. This hide, we are told, had been given by the abbot for love of the king to Sawin the Hawker, from whom Osmund, father of Ralf, had seized it during the abbot's absence in Denmark. The other hide which Ralf held in chief in Hemingford, described as waste, had belonged to the demesne of the abbey in the time of the Confessor, but Ralf afterwards held it against the abbot's will.

~ VCH: A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2, Parishes of Hemingford Abbots', pp. 304-309

• Background Information. ¹⁰³⁶
Aubrey de Vere seized the lands of Hemingford, and held them immediately of the Crown. The tentant under Aubrey de Vere in 1086 was Ralf son of Osmund, who was also tenant-in-chief of another hide in Hemingford Abbots. Ralf was the son of Osmund and was succeeded by his son Payne de Hemingford.

~A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2, pp. 309-314