Robert Basset

His grandfather John Basset (1518–1541) had married Frances Plantagenet, the daughter and co-heiress of his step-father Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle (died 1542), bastard son of King Edward IV. Sir Robert Basset was thus a great-grandson of Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle on his paternal grandmother's side. On his paternal grandfather's side Robert Basset was a great-grandson of Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle (c.1493/5–1566), née Honor Grenville (the second wife of Sir John Basset (1462–1528) of Umberleigh) who married secondly (as his second wife) the aforementioned Arthur Plantagenet.

• Arthur Basset (living 1635), eldest son and heir, who died childless.[3] In 1635 he erected the surviving monument to his mother in Heanton Punchardon Church, as is recorded by part of the inscription as follows: "Arthur Bassett, Esquire, her sorrowing first-born son, of a duty of gratitude and respect therefore placed this monument to his mother in the year of Our Lord 1635".
• Col. Arthur Basset (1598-1673), second son and heir to his elder brother. He was a law student at the Inner Temple in 1616 and during the Civil War served as a Royalist commander. For his delinquency he was fined by Parliament and compounded for his estates in the sum of £1,321 6 shillings 6 pence.[3] He served as Deputy Lieutenant of Devon. He married Agnes Leigh, daughter of Sir William Leigh of Northam, Devon.[3] His elaborate mural monument survives in Heanton Punchardon Church.
• William Basset (1602-1634), third son, whose monument survives in Atherington Church,[3] the parish church of Umberleigh

• Anne Basset, eldest daughter, who in about 1614 married Jonathan Rashleigh (1591-1675), of Menabilly, near Fowey in Cornwall, shipping-merchant, Member of Parliament for Fowey in 1614, 1621, 1625,[4] April 1640 and November 1640,[5] and 1661[6] and Sheriff of Cornwall in 1627, a Royalist during the Civil War.
• Elizabeth Basset (living 1642), second daughter, who in 1621 married George Yeo (1597-1671), lord of the manor of Huish, Devon, who was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1618.[7] Her descendant continued at Huish until the death unmarried in 1782 of the last in the male line, Edward Roe Yeo (1742–1782), twice MP for Coventry.
• Elinor Basset, third daughter, who died unmarried in 1634/5.[3]
• Mary Basset, fourth daughter, who in 1631 married Jonathan Sparke of Plymouth,[8] who was the second son of John Sparke (c.1574-1640) of The Friary, in the parish of St Jude, Plymouth, Devon, Member of Parliament for Mitchell. Jonathan Sparke's mother was Deborah Rashleigh, a daughter of John Rashleigh (1554–1624), of Menabilly, a cousin of Mary Basset. Mary's eldest son was Sir John Sparke (1636-1680), MP, of the Friary, Plymouth,[8] who is mentioned in the Travel Journal of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642-1723) who was visiting Plymouth on 5 April 1669:

"On the 5th of the same month Sir Jonathan Spark came to pay his respects to the serene prince, accompanied by his son. This gentleman is an inhabitant of Plymouth, in the neighbourhood of which he possesses an estate of a thousand pounds a year; consequently he is considered the principal person of the place".[9]