Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre

Ralph (or Ranulph) Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre (ca. 1290 – April 1339) was an English peer.

Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre
Arms of Dacre: Gules, three escallops argent
Born	ca. 1290
Died	1339
Noble family	Dacre
Spouse(s)	Margaret de Multon, 2nd Baroness Multon of Gilsland
Issue William Dacre Thomas Dacre Ralph Dacre Hugh Dacre
Father	William Dacre
Mother	Joan Gernet

Dacre was the son of Sir William Dacre of Cumberland.

In 1321 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Dacre. In 1331 he was appointed High Sheriff of Cumberland and Governor of Carlisle.[1]

He married Margaret de Multon, Baroness Multon of Gilsland. Dacre carried off his bride to be, a ward of Edward III, from Warwick Castle where she was in the care of Thomas de Beauchamp; the official record states:

Ranulph de Dacre pardoned for stealing away in the night, out of the King's custodie, from his Castell of Warwick, of Margaret, daughter and heir of Thomas Multon of Gillsland, who held of the King in capite and was within age, whereof the said Ranulph standeth indighted in curia Regis.[2]

He commanded the English in the Battle of Dornock. Lord Dacre died in April 1339 and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, William. His third and fourth sons Ralph and Hugh also succeeded in turn. Another son, Thomas, died without issue and did not succeed to the barony.[3]

Notes

1. Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland By John Burke. Retrieved 2011-07-24.
2. "Naworth Castle". Bell's Weekly Messenger. 16 July 1855. Retrieved 17 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. Baines, Edward "The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, Vol. 5" pg. 3

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages