Sir Ralph de Gorges, of Litton & Wraxall

(see "De Georges from Gaurges in the Cotentin, Normandy, 1065", p. 17)

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Sir Ralph de Gorges Knt., of Litton and Wraxall was of Litton and Wraxall at England.1 He was governor of the castles of Sherburne and Exeter.2 He was born circa 1226?. (1256/57) In the 41st Henry III, had a military summons to march against the Welsh.3 He married Elena de Moreville, daughter of John de Moreville and N. N. de Wrokeshale.3 Sir Ralph de Gorges Knt., of Litton and Wraxall attended Prince Edward to the Holy Land in 1270.2 (1269/70) In the 54th Henry III, had a military summons to the war in Wales.2 He died circa 1272. He died two years later.2 Arms: Argent, a gurge azure.4 He died in 1297.4

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Sir Ralph de Gorges, Knight, of Litton and Wraxall was governor of the castles of Sherburne and Exeter.

In 1256/57 Sir Ralph had a military summons to march against the Welsh. He attended Prince Edward (later to be King Edward I) to the Holy Land in 1270. In 1269/70 Sir Ralph had a military summons to the war in Wales. There is controversy about his death year--either circa 1272 or 1297.

Sources

1. Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 Page: VI:9
2. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999. Page: 59-32
3. Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 Page: 88-6
4. The Story of a Family through Eleven Centuries, Illustrated by Portraits and Pedigrees: Being a History of the Family of Gorges by Raymond Gorges, Frederick Brown; Merrymount Press, 1944. 293 pgs. Page 8-9
5. Master, George S. Collections for a Parochial History of Wraxall. Bristol: Pr.by Arrowsmith for Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1900. Print. page 10

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