Ralph fitz Hubert held several lands in Derbyshire. [1]
1086 "Some of the most valuable of the possessions of the canons were those which lay in Crich, Ripley, and Pentich; they had endowments also in Scarcliff, Palterton and Wessington. All of these places pertained in 1086 to the barony of Ralf fitz Hubert." [2]
"Radulf Filius Huberti: Norman, Domesday tenant-in-chief, first lord of Crick, Derbyshire. (Sanders, 37, whose account omits the next two generations). He was succeeded sometime after 1086 by his son Odo fitz Ralph, who is mentioned in the 1129 Pipe Roll. Probably father also of Matilda, second wife of Edward of Salisbury." [3]
Parish of Boney, probably from Reeds. "This Place in the Time of King Edward the Consessor was the Freehold of one Levenot, who had other considerable Places in this Country, as Kirkeby-in-Ashfield, Annesly, and some others, in all which Raph (Son of, or) Fitz-Hubert is certified in the Book of Doomsday to be his Successor; his Manner in Bonei was rated to the Public Taxation as two Carucats. The Land was (sufficient for six Plows, or) fix Carucats. There Ralph had in Domesne two Carucats, and eighteen Villains, and seven Sochm. and two Bord. having seven Car. There was a Church and a Priest, and one Mill 12d. and one Hundred and sixty Acres of Meadow, and small Wood tenqu. long and one broad. In the Confessor's Time it was 4l. Value, when the Survey was made in the Conqueror's 60s." [4]
Research Notes:
Possible wife: "Adam filius Huberti: Son of Hubert de Ria, from Ryes, arr. Bayeux, Calvados; a major tenant of Odo bishop of Bayeux in Domesday Book. Brother of an important Norman Domesday tenant-in-chief, Eudo dapifer. Humphrey, Robert bishop of Sées, and Muriel wife of Osborn, and perhaps of Ralph fitz Hubert. Benefactor of Rochester Cathedral (Mon. Ang. i, 169), he died in 1098, when his heir was his brother Eudo." [5]
"Eudo Dapifer: Norman, son of Hubert de Ryes, arr. Baueux (Lloyd, 40). Dapifer to William I and II and Henry I, he held the land of the honor of Préaux in Normandy. In 1086 he held a major tenancy-in-chief in ten counties. Some of his land had earlier been held by Breton Lisoius de Moutiers, who forfeited his holdings in 1075. In 1086 one of his tenants was Osbert, husband of his sister Muriel. Soon afterwards he acquired the land previously held by his brother Adam, a tenant of Odo of Bayeux. He also took over the tenancy of other fiefs, those of Roger and William de Auberville in Hertfordshire, and of Sasselin in Essex. In 1096-7 he refounded the abbey of St. John the Baptist at Colchester. He married Rohais, the daughter of Richard de Clare, by whom he had issue Margaret, first wife of William de Mandeville and secondly of Otuer fitz Count. He died early in 1120 at his castle of Préaux and was buried at Colchester abbey on 28 February. His honor was taken over by Henry I and its partial dismemberment quickly followed. See Farrer, HFK iii, 164-8." [6]
[1] John Pym Yeatman, Sir Geo. R. Sitwell, and Cecil J. S. Foljambe, The Feudal History of the County of Derby: (chiefly during the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries), Vol. 1 (London: Remrose & Sons, 1886), 55, of 55-59, [HathiTrust].
[2] Reginald Ralph Darlington, ed., The Cartulary of Darley Abbey (Highgate, 1945), xvi.
[3] K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of persons occurring in English documents, 1066-1166 (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999), 340, citing many items, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Robert Thoroton, History of Nottinghamshire: Republished with Large Additions by John Throsby, Vol. 1 (London: 1797), 85, of 85-91, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[5] K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of persons occurring in English documents, 1066-1166 (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999), 123, [GoogleBooks].
[6] K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of persons occurring in English documents, 1066-1166 (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999), 194, [GoogleBooks].