Ralph Basset () was an English

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leader. Basset was

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of Sapcote,

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. By the

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he was appointed

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, and he was one of the sureties ex parte baronum for the observance of the

Mise of Amiens The Mise of Amiens () was a settlement given by King Louis IX of France on 23 January 1264 in the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons, led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort. Louis' one ...

(December 1263). He was again entrusted by the barons with Northampton, and was appointed, after Lewes, ''custos pacis'' (keeper of the peace) for Leicestershire in June 1264. As 'Radulfus Basset de Sapercote' he was summoned to Simon de Montfort's parliament on 24 December 1264 and fought at

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in 1265 in the ranks of the barons.

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Year of birth missing 13th-century births 13th-century deaths English MPs 1264 People from Blaby District English soldiers 13th-century soldiers {{13thC-England-MP-stub