Editing Ralph d'Escures (section)

==Early life==
[[File:AbbayeduBec-arbres.jpg|alt=View of a stone tower and wooden buildings behind an open field|thumb|Abbey of Bec, where Ralph entered monastic life]]
Ralph was the son of Seffrid d'Escures and his first wife Rascendis,<ref name=DNB>Brett "Escures, Ralph d' " ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref> and a half brother of [[Seffrid I]],<ref name=DNB/><ref name=BHOChich>Greenway ''Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 5: Chichester: Bishops''</ref> [[Bishop of Chichester]] from 1125 to 1145.<ref name=Heads51>Knowles, et al. ''Heads of Religious Houses'' pp. 51,250</ref> The surname of de Turbine, by which he is sometimes known in older scholarship, is only attested in the fourteenth century and possibly resulted from confusion with [[William de Corbeil]], Ralph's successor at Canterbury.<ref name=DNB/> Ralph studied at the school at the Abbey of Bec<ref name=Cantor176>Cantor ''Church, Kingship, and Lay Investiture'' p. 176</ref> before entering the abbey of St Martin at Séez in 1079.<ref name=Vaughn61/> St. Martin was a house founded by the [[Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury|Montgomery]] and [[William I Talvas|Bellême]] families, and was still under their lordship.<ref name=Vaughn109>Vaughn ''Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan'' p. 109</ref> He became abbot of the house in 1091, and his election was attended by [[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm, abbot of Bec]].<ref name=Vaughn61>Vaughn ''Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan'' p. 61</ref>