Ralph Shirley

1391 - Abt 1443  (51 years)

• Name	Ralph Shirley
  Alternate birth	Abt 1390  [1]
  Birth	23 Apr 1391	of Lower Ettington, Warwickshire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1443	France   [2, 4]
  Burial	Collegiate Church of Newark, Leicester, Leicestershire, England   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I15699	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Hugh Shirley,   b. Abt 1362, of Lower Ettington, Warwickshire, England d. 22 Jul 1403, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (Age ~ 41 years)
  Mother	Beatrice Brewes,   b. Abt 1366   d. 20 Apr 1440 (Age ~ 74 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1383  [4]
  Family ID	F9838	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan Basset   d. 14 May 1419
  Children	+ 1. Beatrice Shirley,   b. Abt 1408   d. 10 Jul 1483 (Age ~ 75 years)
  Family ID	F9831	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2017

  
  

• Notes

  Also known as Ralph Basset. Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1420-22. Knight of the shire for Leicestershire. He served as a young man in the French campaigns of Henry V. He was present at the siege of Harfleur, but was prevented by illness from taking command of his retinue at Agincourt.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [S1513] F. N. Craig, "Maternal Ancestry of Governor Thomas Dudley: Purefoy, Ayot, and Denton Lines." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 142:227, July 1998.