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Richard Basset

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• • 20th Great-grandfather of Ranulph Fiennes — 23rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4855716 
  • Father:
  • Ralph Basset 
  • Mother:
  • Eleanor de la Wade   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1273 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 18 Aug 1314 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joan de Huntingfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1298 
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  Ralph Basset (Ahnentafel No:2427858 )

  Richard Basset

  Robert Basset

  • Notes: 

  • 1st Lord Basset of Weldon

    Sir Richard Basset was taken prisoner at the Battle of Bannockburn 24 JUN 1314.

• Sources for Richard Basset

  • ¹ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, p. 554.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 1, pp. 114-115.
  • ³ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 176-177.

Ranulph Fiennes photo by Municipal Archives of Trondheim (CC BY 2.0)