269007908Ralph de Cheyne
Key Facts
Parents:538015816Ralph de Cheyne
His mother's identity is unknown.
Born:unknown
Died:unknown
Buried:unknown

269007908Ralph de Cheyne is the son of 538015816Ralph de Cheyne, as explained below.

Problem: Resolved
Who is 269007908Ralph's father?

Consideration #1

269007908Ralph had a son, 134503954John.1,2

134503954John's grandfather was 538015816Ralph.3

Therefore, 269007908Ralph's father was 538015816Ralph.

Consideration #2

In a charter for a gift to Lewes Priory created sometime between 1088 and 1118, "[Rad]ulfi de Querceto" and "Radulfi filii Radulfi" (i.e., 538015816Ralph and his son 269007908Ralph, respectively) both signed as witnesses.4


A facsimile of UK National Archives reference E 40/154044

Consideration #3

In 1086, 538015816Ralph owned some meadowland near Hamsey.5


This Domesday Book entry shows that 538015816Ralph owned meadowland near Hamsey.5

134503954John later granted some meadowland near Hamsey to Lewes Priory.1

Considering these two records together, one can infer that 269007908Ralph had inherited the land from 538015816Ralph and subsequently willed it to 134503954John. The inheritance strengthens the hypothesis that 269007908Ralph's father is 538015816Ralph.

Alan Flaald states that 269007908Ralph married a woman named Emma,6 but I don't understand the evidence he presents to support this statement.

Sources Cited:

1: UK National Archives reference ID's E 40/15531 and E 40/15532. You can see an English translation here.

2: Charles Johnson and Hilary Jenkinson, eds., English Court Hand, A.D. 1066 to 1500: Illustrated Chiefly from the Public Records (Oxford, 1915), page 96

3: William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, Volume VI Part I (London, 1846), page 369, charter I. Also notice the phrase "avus meus Radulfus de Querceto et Willielmus filius ejus patruus meus."

4: UK National Archives reference ID E 40/15404. I used the facsimile printed in: William Farrer and Charles Travis Clay, eds., "Chapter II - Charters of the Lords of the Honour," Early Yorkshire Charters, Volume 8: The Honour of Warenne (reprint by Cambridge University Press, 2013), plate IV inset between pages 70 and 71, pertaining to charter #13.

5: The Domesday Book, Sussex folio 24, <https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ4112/hamsey/>. You may find an English translation helpful.

6: Alan Fitz Flaald the First, "The Origin of the Stewarts and Their Chesney Connexion," The Genealogist, New Series Volume 18 (1902), page 9, the pedigree chart and footnote #2