Facts: - diocese: diocese of hereford - title: bishop of hereford - other post: dean of hereford - type: bishop - buried: friary church at gloucester - consecration: 12 november 1234 - successor: michael - elected: between 21 august and 30 september 1234 - predecessor: hugh foliot - death date: 27 january 1245 - name: ralph de maidstone - ended: 17 december 1239 - consecrated by: edmund rich , archbishop of canterbury - religion: roman catholic Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ralph de maidstone .
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ralph de maidstone -lrb- sometimes ralph de maydenstune or ralph maidstone ; died 1245 -rrb- was a medieval bishop of hereford .