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Birth:          ABT 1065 South Creake, Norfolk, England
Death:          1091 Swanton Morley, Norfolk, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I37070
SWANTON MORLEY,

Ralph de Bellofago, or Beaufoe, was a near relation, if not son of William de Beaufoe 
Bishop of Thetford, chaplain and chancellor to the Conqueror, and held at the survey 
these following lordships, with Swanton; -Newton, and Bircham in Docking hundred; 
-Ringsted in Smethden hundred; -Walton East in Freebridge hundred; -Elingham in 
Shropham hundred; -Lechesham, and one in Derham, in Launditch hundred; -Depeham 
in Fourhou hundred, with Morley and Berford and Crownthorp: -Hokeling, Tudenham, 
and East Tudenham and Mateshale in Mitford hundred; -Bastwick, and Tunestalle in 
Walessam hundred, as then called; -Plumstead, and Blofield in Blofield hundred; -
Caster in Heinsted hundred; -Reydon in Diss hundred; -Wroxham, Rachey and 
Taverham in Taverham hundred; -Salle in Einesford hundred; -Buxton, Brampton, 
Scothow, Hobbies, Lammass, and Belaugh in South Erpingham hundred; -Sloley in 
Tunsted hundred; -Mulbarton, Carlton, Swardeston, and Markeshall in Humbleyard 
hundred; -Thrigby, Alburgh, Norton, and Raveningham in Clavering hundred.

Ralph de Beaufoe left a daughter and heiress, Agnes, who was married to Hubert de 
Rie, castellan of Norwich castle, who was son of Hubert de Rie, (according to 
Dugdale a trusty servant to Will. Duke of Normandy, and sent by him to King Edward 
the Confessor, when that King lay on his death bed, in a pompous equipage into 
England, and returned to his master with those tokens, whereby he was by that King 
declared his heir to the Crown of England; viz. a sword, in the hilt whereof were in 
closed some relicks of Saints, an hunter's horn of gold, and the head of a mighty stag; 
for which service he had the promise of being steward of his household.

Ralph was his eldest son, and made castellan of Nottingham; Hubert was his second 
son, made governor of Norwich castle; Adam, the third son, had large possessions in 
Kent; and Eudo, a fourth son, was a great courtier, steward of the King's household, 
and rewarded with many lordships in several counties.

This Agnes, with her son Richard, granted the church of Aldby to the priory of 
Norwich, which King Henry I. confirmed, on the petition of Henry de Rya, son and heir 
of Hubert, and Anges de Rya,and her tithes of Wrokesham; witnesses, William de 
Tankervile, and Richard Basset.

From: 'Launditch Hundred: Swanton-Morley', An Essay towards a Topographical 
History of the County of Norfolk: volume 10 (1809), pp. 53-59. URL: 
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78624&strquery=swanton morley 
Date accessed: 28 April 2012.

NOTE: According to a post to SGM by John Ravilious the above incorrectly names his 
daughter Agnes being married to Hubert de Rye; it was actually his widow Agnes de 
Tosni/Toeni who m. Hubert de Rye after Ralph's death. There is no proof that Bishop 
William de Beaufoe of Thetford was Ralph's father; he may have been an uncle. 
Certainly the whole family was in William the Conqueror's good graces.

Parents
DE BEAUFO [DE BELFOU] Robert (ABT 1040 - )
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Siblings
DE BEAUFO Ralph (ABT 1065 - 1091)

Marriage To DE TOSNY Agnes (ABT 1072 - AFT 1129)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE TOSNY Robert (ABT 1030 - Aug 1088)
DI SAVONA Adeliza (ABT 1052 - BEF 1075)

Children by DE TOSNY Agnes ABT 1072 - AFT 1129
DE BEAUFO Ralph (ABT 1090 - )

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