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Ranulph Fiennes

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James Fiennes

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• • 17th Great-grandfather of Ranulph Fiennes — 20th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
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  • Father:
  • William Fiennes 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Batisford   
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  • 4 Jul 1450 
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  • Emiline Cromer
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  William Fiennes (Ahnentafel No:262912 )

  Elizabeth Fiennes

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  • 1st Lord Say and Sele

    Sir James Fiennes was beheaded by a lynch mob led by Jack Cade in 1450.

• Sources for James Fiennes

  • ¹ Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 2555.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, p. 363.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 471.

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