Ralph L. Bassett

• Preferred Name: Ralph L. Bassett^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Governor of Edinburgh Castle1291 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Basset,_1st_Lord_Basset_of_Drayton
  
• Death: ABT 31 DEC 1299 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England at LATI: N2.3973 LONG: E0.7311
  
• FSID: MRKC-NZG
  
• Birth: BEF 1244 in Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.7795 LONG: E1.9171
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1st Baron Bassett of Drayton1295 with note: Date
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1st Baron Bassett of Drayton23 JUN 1295 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Basset,_1st_Lord_Basset_of_Drayton & https://www.thepeerage.com/p11698.htm#i116972
  
• Burial: JAN 1300 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.5982 LONG: E1.7162
  
• NFS ID: with note: Description: MVL8-RT9 NFS
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1st Lord Bassett of Drayton
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Knight
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Ralph Basset, 1st Baron Basset (born before 1265 – 31 December 1299) of Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman who fought in both the Anglo-French War and in the First War of Scottish Independence. He was the son of one of Simon de Montfort's barons, Ralph Basset (d.1265), and Margaret de Somery. In 1291, he was made Governor of Edinburgh Castle. He was created 1st Baron Basset of Drayton in 1295.
  
  Family and title
  
  Ralph Basset was the son of one of Simon de Montfort's baronial lords, also called Ralph Basset, and Margaret de Somery. Ralph senior was killed in the Battle of Evesham with de Montfort's forces in 1265 with his lands and titles being forfeited due to his rebellion.
  
  In some records Ralph Basset is listed as the 2nd Baron Basset of Drayton, his father being the first. The Barony of Drayton was created during Simon de Montfort's Parliament in 1264 but the validity of the summons and appointments have been debated over the subsequent centuries. Depending on the view taken, in 1295, Ralph Basset was either created as the 1st Baron Basset of Drayton or he regained his father's title as the 2nd baron.
  
  Ralph Basset married Hawise de Grey and on his death at the close of 1299 was succeeded by his son, another Ralph Basset.
  
  Governor of Edinburgh Castle
  In the political tumult brought about by the various competitors for the Crown of Scotland, Edward I of England was able to gain an advantage. On 11 June 1291 the town and castle of Edinburgh were placed into his hands and he subsequently granted the governorship of Edinburgh Castle to Drayton and the Castle was garrisoned with English soldiers.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Basset,_1st_Lord_Basset_of_Drayton
  
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  Ralph Basset, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton was born before 1265.
  He was the son of Sir Ralph Basset and Margaret de Somery.
  He married Hawise (?)
  He died on 31 December 1299.1
  He fought in the French and Scottish wars.1 He was created 1st Lord Basset of Drayton [England by writ] on 23 June 1295.
  
  Children of Ralph Basset, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton and Hawise (?)
  - Margaret Basset+2
  - Maud Basset3
  - Sir Ralph Basset, 2nd Lord Basset of Drayton+1 b. a 1278, d. 25 Feb 1342/43
  
  http://www.thepeerage.com/p11698.htm#i116972
  
  History of Ralph Basset (1247- 1299)
  
  Ralph Basset, 1st Baron Basset (born before 1265 – 31 December 1299) of Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman who fought in both the Anglo-French War and in the First War of Scotti
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#MargaretBassetM1EdmundStafford as of 4/5/2016
  
  RALPH Basset, son of RALPH Basset & his wife Margaret de Somery (-31 Dec 1299, bu
  
  Memorial
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Leger_family The family of St. Leger (/ˈsɛlᵻndʒər/ SEL-in-jər) (Latinized to De Sancto Leodegario) is an old Anglo-Irish family with Norman and German roots ( Leodega
  
  === !BIR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Tur ===
  !BIR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
  
  === BASSET (a) (of Drayton)
  
  RALPH BASSET, s ===
  BASSET (a) (of Drayton)
  
  RALPH BASSET, son and heir of Ralph Basset, of Drayton, co. Stafford, and of Colston Basset, Notts (b), was summoned to Parliament 24 December 1264, by writ directed Radulfo Basset de Drayton; which writ however, having issued in rebellion, should not create a peerage dignity.
  
  He married Margaret, daughter of Roger de Somery, of Dudlcy, co. Worcester, by his 1st wife (to whom she was daughter and cohheir), Nicole, daughter and eventually coheir of William (d'AUBIGNY), EARL OF ARUNDEL. He died 4 August 1265, being slain at the battle of Evesham fighting against the King, who, however, continued the estates to his widow and son, as her father had fought for the King at Evesham. His widow married before 26 January 1I270/1, as 2nd wife, Ralph DE CROMWELL, Of Cromwell, Notts, and West Hallam, co. Derby, who died shortly before 18 September 1289. She took the veil shortly before 18 June 1293. [Complete Peerage II:1-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  (a) In Dugdale's "Usage of Arms", are given the numerous variations (for the sake of "difference") in the armorial ensigns borne by the various members of the Basset family. From this it would appear that the house of Weldon, and that of Drayton, both of whom derived from the elder sons of Richard Basset by Maud, daughter and heir of Geoffrey Ridel (a powerful feudal Baron, whose lands they inherited), adopted the "3 piles" (the Ridel coat), but that William Basset (ancestor of the house of Sapcote, being the youngest son of the said William and Maud), "having no advancement by the house of Rydell, retained "Undie" the devise of the Bassets, and only changed the colours thereof (from gold and red) into silver and black. But, about the time of Edward III, Simon Basset, Baron of Sapcote (descended from the forenamed William) and Sir John Basset of Blore (also so descended), both of them (I know not the case why) at one instant (as I think) relinquished their devise of "Undie" and invested themselves into "Ridels" (ie. the 3 piles with certain variations). [G.E. Cokayne] J. H. Round, however points out that all this is invalidated by the fact that Geoffrey Ridel d. as early as 1120, when there cannot have existed a family coat of Ridel. [Vicary Gibbs]
  
  (b) This Ralph, who d. 1254-61, was son of Ralph, who d. 1211, son of Ralph who d. 1160, son of Richard Basset, Justiciar temp. Henry I, who held Drayton through his marriage with Maud Ridel, and d. 1144.
  
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  "Immediately after the Norman conquest," says Collins, "arose into power and importance, more especially in the midland counties, the great baronial family of Basset" (descended from Thurston the Norman), which gave a chief justice to England in the reign of Henry I, in the person of Ralph Basset, from whom sprang the Lords Basset of Drayton, the Lords Basset of Heddington, &c. About the middle of the 12th century, the Bassets of Cornwall obtained the estates of Tehidy by marriage with the heiress of the great house of de Dunstanville. In the 42nd year of King Henry III (1257-8), Ralph Basset, Lord of Drayton, co. Stafford, [great-]great-grandson of Richard Basset, justice of England, and his wife, Maud Ridel, had summons (amongst other great men) to attend the king at Chester, well furnished with horse and arms, to oppose the incursions of the Welsh. But in the 48th of the same monarch, having joined Simon Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and the other rebellious barons, he was appointed the next year, after the defeat of the king's arms at Lewes, and capture of the king, governor for those lords of the castles of Salop and Bruges. He fell, however, before the close of the same year at the battle of Evesham. It is said that when the Earl of Leicester perceived the great force and order of the royal army, calculating upon defeat, he conjured Ralph Basset and Hugh Dispenser to retire and reserve themselves for better times but they bravely answers, "that if he perished, they would not desire to live." Lord Basset m. Margaret, dau. of Roger de Someri, Baron of Dudley, and widow of Uriah St. Pierre, and had issue, Ralph, and Maud. Notwithstanding the death of Lord Basset, thus in arms against the king, his widow was so favoured by the monarch as to have the chief of his estates settled upon her for life, but soon afterwards, taking the veil, she passed her title in those lands to her son, Ralph Basset. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 26-7, Basset, Barons Basset, of Drayton]
  
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  Ralph Basset (d 1265), baronial leader, was lord of Drayton in Staffordshire, and, joining the baronial party against Henry III, was appointed by them custos pacis for Shropshire and Staffordshire on 7 June 1264, and was summoned to Simon de Montfort's parliament on 4 Dec 1264 as Ralph Basset 'de Drayton'. He fell at Evesham by De Montfort's side on 4 Aug 1265, heaving refused, when urged by him, to seek safety in flight.
  
  Sir Rauf the gode Basset did ther his ending, (Robert Brune)
  
  His lands were forfeited for rebellion, but restored to his widow Margaret, as the daughter of a royalist, Roger de Someri. [Dictionary of National Biography I:1305]
  
  === Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (55:30). C ===
  Weis" "Ancestral Roots. . ." (55:30). CP II:1 and Note (b), 2-3. He inherited his estates from his mother, who had been allowed to keep them because of her father's loyalty after her husband (Ralph's father), RALPH, had been slain while fighting against King HENRY III at the Battle of Eversham. He served in the Franch and Scottish wars. He was summoned to attend King EDWARD I at Shrewsbury in 1283 and was summoned to parliament in 1295.
  
  === Sources: Norr; A. Roots 55. Roots: Ralph ===
  Sources: Norr; A. Roots 55. Roots: Ralph Basset, Lord Basset of Drayton,1 M.P., 1295-1299. Norr: Lord Basset of Drayton.
  
  === !Sir Bernard Burke's Dormant & Extinct P ===
  !Sir Bernard Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerage p.27-245-246;"Sum. to P.as Radulphus Basset of Drayton 1295". "great grandson of Richard Basset Justice ofEngland". !Source: Cokayne II 1 2 & note; Thorton's Notts I 162 164; Lipscomb's Bucks IV 258; Dugdale Baronstage I 379 381. "page 27" found on pedigree chart. !Submitter: Ida May Gale Booher, R.R. #4, Box 441, Ojai, California.
  
  === Weis 55-30 M.P. 1295-1299 Weis 55-30 M.P ===
  Weis 55-30 M.P. 1295-1299 Weis 55-30 M.P. 1295-1299 Lord Bassett of Drayton. His coat of arms is the oldest still in existence from the Order of the Garter at St. Georges Chapel, Windsor.
  
  === Member of Parliment 1295-1299. Some reco ===
  Member of Parliment 1295-1299. Some records has death date of 21 dec 1299
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.38, 46, 47; THE COMPLETE PEERAGE (GS NUMBER REF 942 D22COK) VOL 2 P.3, VOL 12 P.172, 173, 174; BURKE'S PEERAGES (GS NUMBER 942 D22BUG) P.27, 477; DUGDALE'S BARONAGE OF ENGLAND (GS NUMBER ESQ942 D22DW) VOL 1 P.157, 158, 159; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === (21) dead ===
  (21) dead
  
  === He inherted his estates from his mother, ===
  He inherted his estates from his mother, who had been allowed to keep them because of her father's loyalty after her husband (Ralph's father), Ralph had been killed fighting against King Henry III at the Battle of Eversham. He served in the Franch and Scottish wars. He was summoned to attend King Edward I at Shrewsbury in 1283 and was summoned to parliment in 1295.
  
  === !SOURCE: Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Ce ===
  !SOURCE: Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists p. 6. Lord Basset of Drayton, co. Stafford. SOURCE: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215 line 136-4 1999 edition M.P. 1295-1299.
  
  === !Brown book 5, P C 520. He died just bef ===
  !Brown book 5, P C 520. He died just before 28 Dec 1291. Estate Adm. 1295. Cherry Book: p48;50;292. Banks: I; p158. For Bassett see: Ances of Wm Clopton: p46-7: by Erwin.
  
  === "2nd baron, who had summons to parliamen ===
  "2nd baron, who had summons to parliament, 23 June 1295, as `Randulphus Basset de Drayton.' This nobleman was engaged in the French and Scottish wars of king Edward I. In the latter, as one of the retinue of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, the king's brother." - Burke's "Dormant and Extinct Peerages," 1883.
  
  === [[Category: Battle of Falkirk]] ===
  [[Category: Battle of Falkirk]]
  === Biography ===
  :Ralph Bassett, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton, Staffordshire, England. Sir Ralph 1st Baron Basset of Drayton [1244-1299] of Drayton Bassett, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, m. Hawise de Grey [1255-1343] of Shirland, Derbyshire, England, daughter of Sir John de Grey of Shirland and Joan Peyvere [http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/minibios/c/FAMILY_BOOK_VolI.pdf Families & Dynasties, Electric Scotland, page49]
  
  :Family of Ralph Basset
  
  :Son of Ralph Basset, Baron and Margaret de Somery, of Dudley
  :Husband of Hawise de Grey:Father of Ralph Bassett of Huntington; Anselme Bassett; Ralph de Bassett; :Margaret Basset De Stafford; John de Basset, Lord; and Alianor de Bassett :Brother of Roger Bassett, Knight; Maude de Bassett and John de Bassett:Half brother of Sir Ralph de Cromwell, III; Lucy Cromwell; Sir John de Cromwell and Margaret CromwellEntered by Jean Maunder.
  
  ===Sources===
  
  :See also:
  * Source: S2291101439 Repository: [[#R2291101438]] Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree filessubmitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=23586483&pid=465
  *Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists The Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the North American Colonies before 1701 by David Faris. First Edition
  
  === The Weldon succession. Richard of Drayto ===
  The Weldon succession. Richard of Drayton and Great Weldon (d.1135/46) -
  Geoffrey (d.1180) - Richard (d.1217) - Ralph (d.1258) - Richard (d.1276) -
  Ralph (d.1291) - Richard (d.1314) - Ralph (d.1341). I J Sanders *English
  Baronies* pp.49-50, CP II: 9-11.

• m. ABT 1278 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England

1. John Basset, b. ABT 1285 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England     d. 25 FEB 1343 in Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, England
2. Margaret Bassett, b. 1280 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England     d. 17 MAR 1337 in Tunbridge, Kent, England

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3. Title: Ralph Basset (1243-1299) the Millennium File
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/7249/records/10185202;
   Note: Name: Ralph Basset Gender: Male Birth Date: 1243 Birth Place: Drayton, Stafford, England Death Date: 21 Dec 1299 Death Place: Drayton, Stafford, England Father: Ralph Basset Mother: Margaret De Somery Spouse: Hawise Children: Margaret Basset
   
4. Title: Ralph Basset, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton, The Peerage
   Author: https://www.thepeerage.com/p11698.htm#i116972
   Publication: Name: https://www.thepeerage.com/p11698.htm#i116972;
   Note: Ralph Basset, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton was born before 1265.1 He was the son of Sir Ralph Basset and Margaret de Somery.1 He married Hawise (?)1 He died on 31 December 1299.1 He fought in the French and Scottish wars.1 He was created 1st Lord Basset of Drayton [England by writ] on 23 June 1295.1 Children of Ralph Basset, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton and Hawise (?): Margaret Basset+2 Maud Basset3 Sir Ralph Basset, 2nd Lord Basset of Drayton+1 b. a 1278, d. 25 Feb 1342/43 Citations: 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 2. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. 2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 3. 3. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 4.
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8. Title: Ralph 1st Lord of Drayton Basset (1265-1299), "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL75-RYSV : 11 January 2022), Ralph 1st Lord of Drayton Basset, ; Burial, Drayton Bassett, Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England, St Peter Churchyard; citing record ID 177124500, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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   Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177124500/ralph-1st_lord_of_drayton-basset Ralph 1st Lord of Drayton Basset BIRTH 1265 England DEATH 31 Dec 1299 (aged 33–34) Drayton Bassett, Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England BURIAL St Peter Churchyard Drayton Bassett, Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England MEMORIAL ID 177124500 Son of Ralph Lord Basset of Drayton and Margaret de Somery, he was born before 1244, and married Hawise. They were the parents of Margaret Basset Pype.
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9. Title: Ralph Basset, 1st Baron Basset (born before 1265 – 31 December 1299), Wikipedia
   Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Basset,_1st_Lord_Basset_of_Drayton
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Basset,_1st_Lord_Basset_of_Drayton;
   Note: Ralph Basset, 1st Baron Basset (born before 1265 – 31 December 1299) of Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire, was an English nobleman who fought in both the Anglo-French War and in the First War of Scottish Independence. He was the son of one of Simon de Montfort's barons, Ralph Basset (d.1265), and Margaret de Somery. In 1291, he was made Governor of Edinburgh Castle. He was created 1st Baron Basset of Drayton in 1295. Ralph Basset was the son of one of Simon de Montfort's baronial lords, also called Ralph Basset, and Margaret de Somery. Ralph Basset married Hawise de Grey and on his death at the close of 1299 was succeeded by his son, another Ralph Basset.