Ranulph Fiennes correctly Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Bt.
He became chancellor in the reign of Henry I of England.
Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester | Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester | Ranulf le Meschin | Ranulf Compton | Ranulf |
The territory was ruled by the Count Ranulf Baldwin Norman, who took care of the development, renewing and expanding the ancient church of Denis which he dedicated to St. Benedict.
Ranulf's third sister Agnes (Alice) inherited, along with a share in other estates with her sisters, lands between the Ribble and the Mercy rivers, Powis Castle near Welshpool in Wales, Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, and land at Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire.
Stephen welcomed Ranulf’s support but some of the king's supporters, (especially William de Clerfeith, Gilbert de Gant, Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond, William Peverel the Younger, William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel and John, Count of Eu), did not.
When Roger arrived on the peninsula with an army, Ranulf tried to organise resistance, especially in Troia, but gave up when Roger threatened to invade his lands.
Robert defeated Roger at the Battle of Nocera on 24 July, but Roger burnt Aversa and, by 1134, forced Ranulf, count of Alife, and the nominally Byzantine Duke Sergius VII of Naples to submit.