Ranulf de Warenne Lord of Blanchminster

  General Notes:

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. 12A, (Surrey), p. 496, footnote (g), William Warenne left three sons: William, Ralph and Rainald; and two daughters Gundred, and Ada. ¹⁴¹

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷³³
"Willelm de Warene holds Westune of Earl Roger. the Earl Herald held it (in Saxon times). Here are 7½ hides, geldable. In demesne are 1111 ox-teams and two Serfs; and (there are) VI Neatherds, XXIII Villains, IX Boors, and on Radman, with VIII teams, and yet XIIII more teams might be (employed) here. The Wood will fatten 400 swine, and therein are III Hayes. In King Edward's time, the Manor was worth £8 (per annum). Now it is worth £10 [Domesday, fo. 257, a, 2.]."

Westune, later called Whitchurch, was the only manor held in Shropshire by William de Warenne. William de Warenne died in 1135, and is said to have had three sons, William, Reginald and Ralph. There is very little known about Ralph, except his name was recorded. "It is consistent with both to suppose him to have been the father of William fitz Ranulf. If so, Ralph himself may have been, in his time, Lord of Whitchurch." Since William Fitz Ranulf was the lord of Whitchurch, which had been held by William de Warenne at the time of the Domesday Survey, this supposition seems logical.

~ Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. X, p. 14-16