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Ralph de Gael Lord de Montfort in Brittany
- Born: 1075
- Marriage: Emma
- Died: 5 Apr 1168 at age 93 160
Another name for Ralph was Raoul de Gaël.
General Notes:
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 53:25, he was Seigneur of Montford de Gael in Brittany, son of Ralph de Gael and Emma, daughter of William Fitz Osbern, who had been a companion of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. 160
• Background Information. 141
Ralph de Gael married Emma, daughter of William Fitz Osbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, and they had three sons. First was his son and heir named William, who succeeded his father on the death of his maternal uncle, William de Breteuil, and died shortly after. Second was Ralph, who succeeded his brother in 1110, who gained the honors of Breteuil, which his daughter Amice carried to her husband, Robert, second Earl of Leicester.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Norfolk), Vol. IX, pp. 571-575
Ralph married Emma.
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