· Ralph VI 1st Baron de CROMWELL , Sir

· Sex: M

· Birth: ABT 1327 in West Hallam, Shardlow, Derbyshire, England

· Death: 27 AUG 1398 in Tattershall, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England

Ralph VI de Cromwell, 1st Lord (Baron) Cromwell, so created by writ of summons to Parliament 28 Dec 1375. [Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY OF CROMWELL (I)

RALPH DE CROMWELL, being son and heir. of Ralph de Cromwell, of Cromwell and West Hallam (died before 28 October 1364), by Anice, daughter and coheir of Roger DE BELLERS, which last named Ralph was son and heir of Ralph de Cromwell (aged 7 in 1298/9), by Joan de la Mare, his wife, which Ralph was son and heir of another Ralph de Cromwell (died shortly before 2 March 1298/9), who was son and heir of the Ralph de Cromwell (died 1289). He acquired with his wife the estate of Tattershall, co. Lincoln, livery being granted to them 18 March 1366/7, it having been in the King's hands owing to the death of Sir John de Kirketon. He was summoned to Parliament from 28 December 1375 to 6 November 1397 by writs directed Radulfo de Crombwell' or Cromwell', whereby he is held to have become LORD CROMWELL. In 1386-87) he was a Banneret, and retained to serve the King in the event of invasion.

He married, before 20 June 1366, Maud, sister and heir of William, who died 18 December 1360, and daughter of John BERNAKE (c), of Tattershall, by Joan, daughter and eventual coheir of John MARMION [LORD MARMION]. He died 27 August 1398. His widow died 10 April 1419. [Complete Peerage III:551-2 , XIV:224, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(c) He was son and heir of Sir William Bernake, by Alice, daughter and heir of Robert Driby and Joan, sister of Robert de Tateshale of Tattershall, and coheir to that family.

From jweber site

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The flwg is the beginning of an article on his grandson showing that the above Ralph did have a s. & h. also named Ralph:

CROMWELL, RALPH, fourth Baron Cromwell (1394?-1456), lord treasurer of England, is said (G. E. C[okayne], _Complete Peerage_, ii. 430) to have been born about 1403, but as he is described as twenty-six years of age in 1420 (_Inq. post mortem_, 7 Henry V, No. 72) and was a member of the council in 1422, he can hardly have been born later than 1394. The mistake, repeated by all the peerages, arose from Dugdale's misreading of the above inquisition. His grandfather, Ralph de Cromwell, second baron (d. 1398), whose exact relationship to John de Cromwell (d. 1355?), styled first baron, is uncertain, married Maud, daughter of John Bernake of Tattershall, Lincolnshire, thereby acquiring considerable property in that county, and was summoned to parliament as a baron from 28 Dec. 1375 to 6 Nov. 1397. He died on 27 Aug. 1398, leaving by his widow (d. 10 April 1419) one son, Ralph, third baron (1308-1417), who by his wife Joanna was father of the subject of this article. [Ref: DNB, Editor, Sidney Lee, MacMillan Co, London & Smith, Elder & Co., NY, 1909, vol. xxii, p. 515]

The article continues to p. 517 but since he is apparently collateral to your lines, I have excerpted only that part which deals with Ralph VI.

From Curt Hofemann on jweber site