Eighth Generation

8. Ranauf "Ralph" DE BACON (*) was born in 1160 in Of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk County, England.⁴

"Bacon is the name of an ancient seigniory in Normandy, and from this place the Norman ancestors in England took their name nearly a thousand years ago. According to the genealogy of the Suffolk family of Bacon, one Grimald (or Grimaldus), a relative of the Norman chieftan, William de Warrenne, came to England in 1066 at the time of the Conquest and settled near Holt, in County Suffolk. His son, or Great Grandson Robert, took the surname Bacon, or rather assumed the use of the place name as a surname.

In the north of France, the surname Bacon is still in use. William Bacon in 1082 endowed the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen. The surname Bacon is found in the Battle Rolls in England in the eleventh century and in the Hundred Rolls in the thirteenth. There are occasional variations in spelling, such as Bacun and Bachun, and in some instances the surname Vacon may have been corrupted from Beacon. Some derive the surname from the Saxon baccen, a beech tree.

Much of the source data for the early Bacon ancestry is taken from 'The Bacon Genealogy' by Thomas W. Baldwin (1915), as quoted from 'The Baronetage of England' by Kimber and Johnson, published in 1801."

Ranauf "Ralph" DE BACON (*) and Ranouf UNKNOWN (DE BACON) (*) were married.⁴ Ranouf UNKNOWN (DE BACON) (*) was born in 1164.²

Ranauf "Ralph" DE BACON (*) and Ranouf UNKNOWN (DE BACON) (*) had the following children: