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unusual facts about Basset family


Basset family

George Basset (d.1589), second son of Sir John Bassett (1462-1529), KB, of Umberleigh, was given Tehidy by his nephew Sir Arthur Basset (1541-1586), of Umberleigh.


East Hagginton

At some time shortly before 1500 the overlordship had been inherited, with Umberleigh, Heanton Punchardon and many other estates, by the Basset family of Whitechapel, Devon and Tehidy, Cornwall, co-heirs of the Beaumonts.

Joanna of Flanders

Joan of Brittany, Baroness of Drayton (1341 – aft. 20 October 1399), married before 21 October 1385 to Ralph Basset, 4th Baron Basset de Drayton - born at the onset of the Breton War of Succession


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