Ralph IV Basset, Lord of Drayton

Sir Ralph Basset [1] http://www.thepeerage.com/p3683.htm#i36825

Sir Ralph Basset was the son of Ralph Basset.[2]

He married Margaret de Somery, daughter of Roger de Somery and Nicole d'Aubigny.[2]

He died on 4 August 1265 at Evesham, Worcestershire, England, killed in action.[2]

On 24 December 1264 he was summoned to Parliament by writ, but this writ did not create a peerage as it was issued 'in rebellion.[2]

He fought in the Battle of Evesham on 4 August 1265, against the King.[2]

[1] 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 VI, page 174. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

[2] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 1.

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Sir Ralph Basset1

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    Sir Ralph Basset was the son of Ralph Basset.2 He married Margaret de Somery, daughter of Roger de Somery and Nicole d'Aubigny.2 He died on 4 August 1265 at Evesham, Worcestershire, England, killed in action.2

    On 24 December 1264 he was summoned to Parliament by writ, but this writ did not create a peerage as it was issued 'in rebellion.2' He fought in the Battle of Evesham on 4 August 1265, against the King.2

Children of Sir Ralph Basset and Margaret de Somery

Maud Basset+ 1

Ralph Basset, 1st Lord Basset of Drayton+ b. b 1265, d. 31 Dec 12993

Citations

[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 VI, page 174. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 1.

[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 2.

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Ralph Bassett was born in 1215 in Drayton, Staffordshire, England. He died on 4 Aug 1265 in Slain in Eversham, Wordestershire, England. He married Margaret (Margery) De Somery about 1245 in Daudley, Worcestershire, England.

Margaret (Margery) De Somery was born about 1229 in Daudley, Worcestershire, England. She died on 18 Jun 1293. She married Ralph Bassett about 1245 in Daudley, Worcestershire, England.

They had the following children:

  M i Ralph Bassett 

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Lord of Drayton

Slain at Evesham

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"Lord of Drayton, co. Stafford, great-grandson of Richard Basset, justice of England, and his wife, Maud Ridel, had summons...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 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 Salopand 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 Despencer to retire, and reserve themselves for better times; but they bravely answered, 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 Urban St. Pierre and had issue. I. Ralph, his successor. II. Maud, m. to John, Lord Grey deWilton." - Burke's "Dormant and Extinct Peerages," 1883. Ralph descends from Thurston the Norman who founded the family soon after the Conquest. His summons to Chester was in 1257/8 and he was created a baron12-14-1264.

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Baron Ralph Basset, first Baron

c 1200

Parents: unknown

Spouse: Margaret de Someri

Child: Baron Ralph Basset m Joan Gray

Shurtleff Genealogy pub 1917, Vol 1 pg 149