Ralph Shirley

1391 - Abt 1443  (51 years)

• Name	Ralph Shirley
  Alternate birth	Abt 1390  [1]
  Born	23 Apr 1391	of Lower Ettington, Warwickshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1443	France   [2, 3]
  Buried	Collegiate Church of Newark, Leicester, Leicestershire, England   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I15699	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2020

  
  

  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. 1440  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Married	Bef 1383  [3]
  Family ID	F9838	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan Basset,   d. 14 May 1419
  Children	+ 1. Beatrice Shirley,   d. 10 Jul 1483
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F9831	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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. [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.