Margaret Basset, Countess of Hereford and Essex

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• History: birth to death

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Birth:
Father: Ralph of Brayton, Lord Basset
Mother: Joan de Gray

History:
On 1 December 1347, she exchanged one of her dower properties with her brother-in-law the 10th earl of Hereford.

Margaret married John de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex in by 1330. John (son of Humphrey de Bohun VIII, Earl of Hereford and Essex and Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, Countess of Hereford) was born on 23 Nov 1305 in Pleshey Castle, Pleshey, Essex, England; died on 20 Jan 1335 in Kirkby Thore, Westmorelandshire, Wales; was buried in Abbey of St Mary's, Stratford Langthorne, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
They had no children.

Marriage Event :
A papal dispensation was issued at Avignon: "To the bishops of Lichfield and Coventry and London. Mandate to summon the parties to London, and hear the cause touching the marriage of John, earl of Hereford, and Margaret Bassett, who after their marriage discovered that they were related in the fourth degree, and thereupon ceased to live together."