Ralph / Ranulf fitz Grimbaldus, I

The Name Bacon BACON IS A SEIGNORITY IN NORMANDY ACCORDING TO THE WELL AUTHENTICATED GENEALOGY OF THE GREAT SUFFOLK FAMILY OF BACON FROM WHICH SPRUNG MANY BRANCES. HENRY III, LINEALLY DESCENDED FROM GRIMBALDUS.

ARMS "GULES ON A CHIEF ARGENT TWO MULLETS PIERCED SABLE".

CREST "ABOAR PASSANT ERMINE".

MOTT "MEDIOCRIA FIRMA"

AKA Renoff or Ranauf or Reynolds or Ranulf Baconsthorp

Reynolds or Ranult Bacon Thorp of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England.

De Beccen thorp = of beech tree village to Baconsthorpe to Bacon.

Vikings named secondary settlements on margins or on poor land "name - thorpe".

Baconsthorpe settled by displaced Saxons when William the Conqueror's son William Rufus burned the first 2 miles of coastline to discourage the Danes from invading in 1087.

It has been stated that he was the one who assumed the name Bacon or Bacon-Thorpe, but some authorities attribute this name to his son Roger. There were several places called Thorp in Norfolk, and he added this name to distinguish him from other lords of Thorp. The name Bacon having been said to have been taken from the word buchen or beechen, meaning beech tree, we might call him lord of the beech tree village. The word Thorp is said to have been the saxon name for village.

Ranulf was supposed by many to have called himself Bacon-thorpe. This name was a derivitive of Beechen Thorpe, meaning beech tree village in the Saxon tongue.

This information comes from the book "The Ancestors of Socrates Bacon", by LaDonna Warrick Gulley.

________________________________ As has been said, one Grimbald came from Normandy at the time of the conquest and settled at Letheringsete near Holt in the county of Norfolk where he had grants of land. He had three sons: Rudolf, who became the Lord of Letheringsete; Ranulf, and Edmund. The latter was appointed rector of the Church of Letheringsete, which was founded by his father. The son Ranulf, or Reynolds, resided at Thorp, Norfolk. It has been stated that he was the one who assumed the name Bacon or Bacon-Thorpe, but some authorities attribute this name to his son Roger. There were several places called Thorp in Norfolk, and he added this name to distinguish him from other lords of Thorp. The name Bacon having been said to have been taken from the word buchen or beechen, meaning beech tree, we might call him lord of the beech tree village. The word Thorp is said to have been the saxon name for village. http://www.baconlinks.com/Genealogy_old/Baldwin1915/History1.html

French orgins A Grimbaldus came from Normandy at the time of the conquest (1066) and settled in Letheringsete near Holt in the county of Norfolk where he had grants of land. He had three sons: Rudolf, who became Lord of Letheringsete, Ranulf and Edmund who became rector at the church in Letheringsete.

Ranulf resided at Thorpe in Norfolk. It is said that he was the one who assumed the name of Bacon, or Bacon-Thorpe, but others say it was his son Rodger. There were several places called Thorpe in Norfolk and he added this name to distinguish himself from the other Lords of Thorp.

The name of Bacon was said to have been taken from the word buchen or beechen, meaning Beach tree. Thorp was the Saxon name for village. Thus we might call him the Lord of Beech Tree Village