Ralph the Staller

Ralph the Staller or Ralf the Englishman (died 1069/70) was a noble and landowner in both Anglo-Saxon and post-Conquest England.

Modern historians such as Ann Williams have suggested that his father came to England with Emma of Normandy when she married Aethelred II in 1002.

He held the military post of staller, roughly equivalent to the continental constable, under King Edward the Confessor.

[3] He survived partaking in the Conquest of 1066 and gained the favour of William the Conqueror, who made him Earl of East Anglia.

He married and had several children, including his heir, Ralph Guader, who succeeded to his earldom and Hardouin (French) or Hardwin (in English).