Charles Ross (historian)

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Charles Ross
Born	Wakefield, 1924
Died	April 3, 1986(1986-04-03) (aged 61–62) Clifton, Bristol
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	Michael Hicks Ralph A. Griffiths A. J. Pollard

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.