Crusade
In 1096, accompanied by his wife and under Robert Curthose, he went on Crusade. He was one of the Breton leaders who took part in the siege of Nicaea, after which he joined Bohemund I of Antioch’s division of the army.
Both Ralph and his wife Emma died on the road to Palestine in the course of the Crusade.
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