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Spouse: Hawise DE GREY. Hawise DE GREY and Ralph 1St Baron BASSET were married about 1270 in Drayton, Staffordshire, England. _UID08B6D01570A7D811BD0D0000E812BF5C8204 Children were: Margaret BASSET, Anselme BASSETT, Maud BASSET, Ralph 2Nd Baron BASSET, Joan BASSETT, Elizabeth BASSETT, Alianore BASSETT, John BASSETT.

Spouse: Joan DE GREY. Joan DE GREY and Sir, Mp Ralph 2Nd Baron BASSET were married on 27 March 1303 in Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, England.¹⁶ Children were: Sir Ralph of Drayton BASSET, Isabella BASSET.

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RALPH (BASSET), LORD BASSET OF DRAYTON, grandson and heir, aged 8 in 1343, being son and heir of Ralph Basset, by Alice, daughter of Nicholas AUDLEY [LORD AUDLEY], of Heleigh, co. Stafford which last Ralph was son and heir apparent of the last Lord, and died v.p. about 1335. He had livery of his father's lands 6 June 1355. He joined the army of the Black Prince, and was at Bordeaux 8 January 1355/6. He was summoned to Parliament from 26 December 1357 to 6 December 1389 and greatly distinguished himself in the various wars with France. K.G., 1368. On 30 October 1386, at the age of 51 he was a deponent in the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy.

He married 1stly about May 1338, Joan, daughter of Thomas BEAUCHAMP), EARL OF WARWICK, by Catherine daughter of Roger (MORTIMER), EARL OF MARCH. She died s.p. He married, 2ndly, Joan (sister of John, DUKE OF BRITTANY and COUNT OF MONTFORT in France, EARL OF RICHMOND in England), daughter of Jean DE BRETAGNE, COUNT OF MONTFORT, by Jeanne, daughter of LOUIS DE FLANDRE, COUNT OF NEVERS. He died s.p., 10 May 1390. He was buried under a " goodly monument in Lichfield Cathedral, " when the Barony became dormant,. or, possibly fell into abeyance between the heirs of his two great aunts (f). His widow obtained a grant, 23 April 1398, of the Honour of Richmond (formerly belonging to her brother)which, however was resumed by Henry IV. She died 8 November 1402, and was buried in the Abbey of Lavendon, near Olney, Bucks. [Complete Peerage II:3-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(f) The heirship of the last Lord is somewhat doubtful. As to many of the estates the heir was found to be, according to one inq., Thomas, Earl of Stafford, son of Hugh, son of Ralph, son of Margaret Basset, sister to the grandfather of the deceased; but, according to another inq., the heirs were (1) the said Earl of Stafford and (2) Alice, wife of William Chaworth, descended from Maud, a sister of the said Margaret, who m. Sir William Herriz. These findings were confirmed by another inq. (1403), on the death of Joan, widow of the last Lord Basset. It is certain that the last Lord devised all his estates to his nephew ("mon neveu"), Hugh Shirley, and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to William Stafford (brother of the Earl of Stafford),and to divers others. It is certain, also, that the Shirley family inherited,by this devise, considerable estates in the counties of Nottingham, Leicester,and Warwick (touching which Sir Ralph Shirley had a memorable dispute with theEarl of Stafford), many of which remained in the Shirley family till the deathof Earl Ferrers in 1827. Isabel, the mother of Hugh Shirley, appears to have been sister of the last Lord Basset--possibly of the half blood--which, even were she his paternal sister, would at that time have precluded heirship; but inasmuch as Alice, mother of the last Lord, m. Hugh de Meinill, she might, not improbably, have been a bastard sister, and "the last Francis Townshend, Esq, Windsor Herald (1784-1819), on the authority of Robert Glover, Somerset, a most learned and skilful herald, considered the illegitimacy of Isabel Shirley to be indisputable; quoting a lineal descendant and heir, in which she is called natural sister of the last Baron, and the coat assigned to her is debruised by a baton. If the illegitimacy of Isabel be established, this dignity (the Barony of Basset) would be in abeyance between the representatives of Thomas, Earl of Stafford (who is presumed to be the present Baron Stafford), and those of the said Dame Alice Chaworth, who (upon the decease of her great-granddaughter and heir), in 1507, were (1) Joan, wife of Sir Thomas Dynham; (2) Elizabeth, wife of Anthony Babington; and (3) Anne, wife of William Mering, who dsp.

A tabular pedigree of the coheirs of this Barony (on the supposition that Isabel Shirley wasa bastard) is in Coll. Top. et Gen., vol vii, p. Parents: Sir Ralph of Drayton BASSET and Alice De AUDLEY.

Spouse: Joan BEAUCHAMP. Joan BEAUCHAMP and Of Drayton, Sir Ralph 3Rd Baron BASSET were married about May 1338 in 1st Wife.^16,477

Spouse: Alice De AUDLEY. Alice De AUDLEY and Sir Ralph of Drayton BASSET were married on 22 May 1334 in Heleigh Castle, Staffordshire, England.¹⁶ Children were: Isabel BASSET, Of Drayton, Sir Ralph 3Rd Baron BASSET.

Children were: Gilbert BASSET, Dau of Thomas BASSET.

Spouse: Alice DE DUNSTANVILLE. Children were: Thomas BASSET, Alan BASSET, Isabel BASSET, Gilbert BASSET.

Spouse: Margery MERINGE. Margery MERINGE and Lord Of Cheadle, Sir Thomas BASSET were married.¹⁶ Children were: Joan BASSET.

Children were: Maud BASSET, Thomas BASSET, Ralph BASSET.

Children were: Norman Of BASSETT.

Spouse: Maud RIDEL. Children were: Jordan BASSETT, (Lord)Geoffrey De Ridel BASSETT, Sybil BASSETT.

Children were: Ralph BASSETT.

Spouse: *Thomas SHIRLEY. *Isabella BASSETT and *Thomas SHIRLEY were married about 1350 in Shirley, Derbyshire, England. Children were: Hugh SHIRLEY.

Spouse: *Ralph SHIRLEY. Children were: *Ralph SHIRLEY, *Beatrix SHIRLEY.