34th Generation


Family of Sir Richard d’ Harcourt (5446) & Edith St. Claire (5453)

5559. Alice de Harcourt. Born ca 1450 in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. Alice died bef 19 Jun 1526 in Berkshire, England.

Alice’s will was proved 19 Jun 1526. Check out J. Renton Dunlop’s article “The Fettiplace Family” in Miscellanea Genealogica and Heraldica, 5th series, 2 (1916-7):186, also “Pedigree of the Besils Family” ibid. 5 (1925]:63. Also Josiah C. Wedgwood’s article “Harcourt of Ellenhall” in Collections for a History of Stafforshire (1914), p. 185.

Alice married William Bessiles, son of Thomas Bessiles & Clemence [Bessels]. Born ca 1444 in Bessiles-Leigh, Berkshire. William died ca 1515.

William Bessels (also spelled Bessiles or Besils). Check out F. N. Craig,’s article “Maternal ancestry of the Governor Thomas Dudley; Clemence wife of Thomas Bessels” in The American Genealogist 62 (1987):43.

Their children include:
5676 i. Elizabeth Bessiles (ca 1465-ca 1511)


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