Ralph de Brereton

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's History of Chester, p.88, "Brereton and Holt of Brereton" Predigree, witness to a charter by Gilbert Venables, living during the reign of Kings William II and Henry I of England. ⁷¹³

~Burke's A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, Peerages of the British Empire, 1866 Edition, p. 74, calls this Ralph de Brereton, son of Willdiam de Brereton and grandson of William de Brereton. Besides his son and heir, Sir William, he was the father of Gilbert and a daughter Isolda, wife of Gilbert de Stoke. ⁸⁴³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events. ⁶⁹⁶
There is a record from about 1087, in the reign of William Rufus, when a charter, given Gilbert de Venables, was witnessed by Ralph de Brereton. These parchments, with their signatures and seal, still exist (in 1919) among the town and church records of Cheshire.

~Brereton, A Family History, pp. 8-9