Charles Ross | |
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| Born | Wakefield, 1924 |
| Died | April 3, 1986 (aged 61–62) |
| Known for | Promulgating and developing McFarlane's new paradigm on patronage as the social nexus of 15th-century England |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | K. B. McFarlane, Brasenose College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Medieval English History, the medieval nobility, the Wars of the Roses, the Yorkist kings, Bastard feudalism |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
| Doctoral students | |
Charles Derek Ross (1924–1986) was an English historian of the Late Middle Ages. Originally from Yorkshire, he earned a DPhil from Oxford University and worked as a lecturer, researcher and ultimately professor at the University of Bristol from 1947 until his death in 1986. Specialising in the medieval English nobility, gentry and royal family, he is considered the major propagator of K. B. McFarlane's ideas on bastard feudalism and published widely on a plethora of subjects ranging from the biographies of kings to the cartularies of minor abbeys.