Ralph Paynel

  General Notes:

K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, pp. 1055, Radulf Pagnel

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, Ralph Paynel was of Dudley, Worcestershire, and heir of William Fitz Anscult. He joined the rebellion against King Stephen in 1138. Ralph de Paynel was living in 1141, and was dead by 1153. He most likely married a daughter of Robert de Ferrières and his wife Hawise de Vitré, daughter of Andre, Seigneur de Vitré en Bretagne by Agnes, daughter of Robert comté de Mortain.

Ralph was the son of Fulk Paynel and a daughter of William Fitz Anscult from Picquigny, Ralph's Domesday tenancy-in-chief, later known as the barony of Dudley, Worcester. He and his wife, Madam Ferrières were the parents of Hawise Paynel who married Roger IV de Berkeley, as well as to a son, Gervase Paynel.

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition,

• Background Information. ⁹⁰¹
Ralph Paganel succeeded his father in the lordship of Dudley, and married a daughter of the Earl Ferrars. In 1138, Ralph Paganel held his castle of Dudley for the Empress Maud, and in 5 Stephen (1140), Dugdale wrote, he "was by her made Governor of the Castle of Nottingham; William Peverell, then lord thereof, being taken prisoner in the battle of Lincoln fighting for King Stephen. Whereupon he instigated Robert Earl of Gloucester to enter Nottingham, the inhabitant being destitute of any defensive arms, which he accordingly did; so that the town was miserably plundered, and then burnt by the soldier." He afterwards intended, for the good of his soul to found a monastery at Dudley, but did not live to accomplish this.

~Extracts From the Plea rolls of the Reign of Edward II, A.D. 1307-1327, pp. 7-8

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Ralph, son of Fulk Paynel was an adherent of Empress Maud. He was succeeded by his son named Gervase by 1153. Gervase married Isabel, daughter of Robert Earl of Northampton & Huntingdon, and he died before Michaelmas 1194. Gervase's son, Robert died during his life time, so his estates passed to Gervases nephew, Ralph Somery, son of John de Somery and Gravases's sister Hawise Paynel.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Paynel), Vol. X, p. 320

Ralph married Mademoiselle de Ferrières, daughter of Robert de Ferrières 1st Earl of Derby and Hawise de Vitré Countess of Derby.