Ralph (Stopham) de Stopham (abt. 1247 - 1291)

Born about 1247 in Kent, England

Ancestors

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Biography

Ralph died in 1291, when the manor of Linch, valued at £15 15s. 2¼d., was assigned to his widow Isabel in dower. His daughter and heir Eve, then a minor in ward to the king, subsequently married William de Echingham, to whom Edward I, when staying at his house in Udimore in November 1295, granted free warren in Linch and elsewhere. Eve died without issue before 1326.

Sources

'Linch', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4, the Rape of Chichester, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1953), pp. 65-67 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol4/pp65-67 [accessed 25 January 2015].