Ralph de Somery Baron of Dudley

  General Notes:

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 55:28, 81:28, Baron Dudley, held Dudley and Dinas Powys, married Margaret Marshall, sister of William Marshal, the thrid Earl of Penmbroke and the daughter of John Fitz Gilbert (also called John the Marshall) by his second wife, Sibyl, daughter of Walter of Salisbury. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁰¹
After the death of his father, Ralph de Somery, hurried to Germany to see the King and made a fine with him to be invested in his uncle's barony. the Staffordshire Pipe Roll of 6 R. I., 1194, records that Ralph then owed £43 19s. 2d. scutage for King richard's redemption, "feodi Gervasii Painell." [Staffordshire Historical Collections, Vol. II., p. 33]. In 1190, Ralph de Somery was in the King's service abroad, and in 6 John 1204/05, he gave to the King his manor of Wolverhampton in exchange for a grant in fee farm of the royal manors of Mere, Clent and Sinford, and in consideration of 100 marks paid into the Exchequer had livery of these manors according to the tenor of the grant. [Rot. Pip. 6 John, "Staffordshire Historical Collections," vol. II, p. 121] In 10 John, 1207/08, he had livery of the vill of Newport Pagnell and other lands which his mother formerly held. He married a lady named Margaret, and died in the year 1219, 12 John, when his widow fined 200 marks for her dower. She then married Maurice de Gant, also known as Maurice de Berkely, who died in Portsmouth, 29 Apr 1230, leaving Margaret once agains a widow.

Dugdale says that Ralph de Somery had two sons, William and Roger, and that he was succeeded by the former, who "by reason of his minority at his father's death was in ward for his Barony, which then consisted of ten knights' fees and three parts."
~Extracts From the Plea rolls of the Reign of Edward II, A.D. 1307-1327, pp. 12-14

Ralph married Margaret Marshall, daughter of John Marshall and Sibyl de Salisbury.¹⁶⁰ (Margaret Marshall was born before 1165 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England.)